Oct. 16--British cruiser Hawke sunk by German submarine U-9; British
tramp steamship Induna sunk by Germans; British steamer Guendolen fires
on German ship on Lake Nyassa; British and Japanese warships bombard
fort near Tsing-tau.
Oct. 17--British squadron, led by the Undaunted, sinks four German
torpedo-boat destroyers off Dutch coast; allied fleets bombard Cattaro.
Oct. 19--British battleship Triumph damaged at Tsing-tau; Japanese
cruiser Takachiho sunk by German submarine S-90 in Kiao-Chau Bay;
British fleet helps to repel German land attacks between Nieuport and
Dixmude; Austrian submarine sunk in Adriatic by French cruiser.
Oct. 20--German warships sink British submarine E-3; British gunboats
fight German submarines and coast batteries; Japanese fleet takes
islands of Marianne group; two German ships sunk at Jaluit; British
steamer Giltera sunk by German submarine off Norwegian coast.
Oct. 21--British monitors Severn and Mersey shell German right flank;
Cattaro again bombarded by French fleet, attack of Austrian submarines
being repulsed; German cruiser Emden sinks five British steamships and
captures a sixth in Indian Ocean; British steamer Cormorant sunk.
Oct. 22--British torpedo boat damaged by German artillery fire off
Nieuport; French ships aid British in bombardment near Ostend; British
auxiliary cruiser Carmania damaged.
Oct. 23--Allies' squadrons seeking German cruisers Emden and Karlsruhe;
Emden's activity is having a bad effect on Indian shipping; French ships
aid British in shelling Belgian coast towns.
Oct. 24--British destroyer Badger sinks German submarine; Ostend
bombarded by French warships.
Oct. 25--Japanese sink German cruiser Aeolius off Honolulu.
Oct. 26--Vessel containing French and Belgian refugees sunk near Calais,
probably by a mine, the passengers being rescued by a British ship;
Germans claim that the British ships have been driven back from the
Belgian coast.
Oct. 27--Germans lay mines off Irish coast; British freighter Manchester
Commerce sunk; Germany demands that China release shipwrecked sailors of
submarine S-90, which was destroyed by the Germans when being pursued by
Japanese.
Oct. 28--Emden sinks Japanese steamer; Japanese cruiser Chitose repulses
attack by two German warships.
Oct. 29--Emden, flying the Japanese flag, enters Penang Harbor and sinks
Russian cruiser Jemtchug and a French destroyer; Turkish warships shell
Theodosia and sink two Russian steamers; British vessels slightly
damaged off Belgian coast, with ten men killed; Swedish steamer Ornen
and two British fishing boats sunk by mine in North Sea; British sink
German steamer in the Adriatic.
Oct. 30--Russian and Turkish fleets in battle in the Black Sea; Turkish
torpedo boats bombard Odessa, sinking Russian gunboat Donets, three
Russian liners, and French steamer Portugal.
Oct. 31--Japanese and British warships attack Tsing-tau; German
submarine sinks British cruiser Hermes in Strait of Dover; Turkish
cruiser bombards Sevastopol; Russian fleet attacks Turkish fleet near
Sevastopol.
Nov. 1--German squadron under Admiral von Spee defeats British squadron
under Rear Admiral Cradock off Coronel, Chile; British flagship Good
Hope and the cruiser Monmouth go down with all on board: Germans suffer
but slightly; shelling of Allied fleets sets fire to Tsing-tau.
Nov. 2--Turkish (formerly German) cruiser Goeben damaged by fire from
Russian forts; British ship scuttled in Black Sea; Turkish commander
sinks his ship to prevent capture; Germans blockade coast of Asiatic
Turkey with mines; Karlsruhe captures British steamers Vandyck,
Hurtsdale, and Glanton.
Nov. 3--Anglo-French squadron bombards the Dardanelles forts; British
cruiser Minerva bombards Akabah, Arabia, and sailors occupy the town;
British submarine D-5 sunk by mine in North Sea.
Nov. 4--Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth sunk by Germans to prevent
seizure; Anglo-French fleet continues bombardment of Dardanelles forts;
German warships seen off coast of England; German cruiser Yorck sunk by
mine in Jade Bay.
Nov. 5--British tow German sailing ship into Queenstown, the Captain not
having heard of the war; British mine sweeper Mary sunk in North Sea.
Nov. 6--British ships shell Belgian coast; Turks bombard Batum; British
warship damaged while shelling Dardanelles forts.
Nov. 7--Japanese squadron searches for German squadron in the Pacific;
Russians bombard Turkish Black Sea ports.
Nov. 8--Russians report sinking of four Turkish transports; Turks sink
Greek steamer carrying British flag; two Dardanelles forts destroyed by
bombardment.
Nov. 9--Emden escapes British warship, but loses her store ships;
Russians bombard Bosporus ports; Swedish steamer Ate blown up by mine.
Nov. 10--Australian cruiser Sydney wrecks German cruiser Emden, which
had destroyed more than $5,000,000 worth of British shipping; war risks
drop in consequence; British Admiralty reports that the German cruiser
Koenigsberg has been bottled up in the Rufiji River, German East Africa.
Nov. 11--British torpedo boat Niger sunk by German submarine; Japanese
torpedo boat sunk by mine in Kiao-Chau Bay.
Nov. 12--Turkish torpedo boat captured by Allies; Turkish cruiser Goeben
crippled by shell.
Nov. 14--News comes to America by mail of the sinking of the British
super-dreadnought Audacious on Oct. 27 off the Irish coast; apparently
done by a mine.
Nov. 15--Many mines picked up by Dutch coast guards; mine layer flying
Norwegian flag and manned by German sailors captured at Belfast; British
cruiser Edinburgh aids in capture of Turba, Arabia, by Indian troops.
Nov. 16--Mine cast up by sea kills seven in Holland.
Nov. 17--Swedish steamer Andrew sunk by mine in North Sea; German
squadron bombards Libau; Russian Black Sea fleet attacks Trebizond;
German cruiser Berlin interns at Trondhjem to escape enemy.
Nov. 19--British naval guns bombard Dixmude; French cruiser Waldeck
Rousseau sinks Austrian submarine.
Nov. 20--Austrian steamer Metkovitch sunk by mine off Dalmatian coast.
Nov. 21--The Goeben badly damaged in Black Sea.
Nov. 22--Turkish warships shell Taupse, but are repulsed by Russian land
batteries.
Nov. 23--British warship Patrol rams German submarine U-18 and captures
crew off coast of Scotland; German destroyer S-124 wrecked in collision
with Danish steamer.
Nov. 24--French bark Valentine sunk by Germans near Island of Mas a
Fuera; British ships attack German naval base at Zeebrugge.
Nov. 25--British steamer Malachite sunk by German submarine near Havre.
Nov. 26--British battleship Bulwark blown up in the Thames; magazine
explosion is the accepted theory, but there is some suspicion that it
was the work of spies; Turkish mine layer sunk in the Bosphorus; cruiser
Goeben is being repaired.
Nov. 27--British collier Khartoum blown up by mine off Grimsby.
Nov. 28--Norwegian and Danish trawlers seized by the British for laying
mines while using English port as base; British fishermen sweep coast
waters for mines.
Nov. 30--British ships again bombard Zeebrugge.
Dec. 3--Danish steamer Mary blown up by mine in North Sea, six men
dying.
Dec. 6--Forty British and French war vessels are off the Dardanelles.
Dec. 7--British steamer Charcas sunk by German transport in the Pacific;
Swedish ships Luna and Everilda sunk by mines.
Dec. 8--British squadron under Vice Admiral Sturdee defeats German
squadron under Admiral von Spee off the Falkland Islands; German
flagship Scharnhorst and the cruisers Gneisenau, Leipzig, and Nurnberg
are sunk; the British casualties are slight.
Dec. 9--Three German merchantmen sunk in South Atlantic; Gulf of Bothnia
closed because of mines.
Dec. 10--German submarine raid on Dover repulsed by the forts; Turkish
gunboat sunk by defense mine.
Dec. 12--Turkish fleet bombards Batum.
Dec. 14--British submarine B-11, by diving under five rows of mines,
sinks Turkish battleship Messudieh in the Dardanelles.
Dec. 15--German cruiser Cormorant interned at Guam; Turks bombard
Sevastopol.
Dec. 16--German warships shell the English coast towns of Scarborough,
Hartlepool, and Whitby; about 120 persons are killed and 550 wounded;
British warships shell Westende.
Dec. 17--Austrian training ship Beethoven sunk by mine; British squadron
bombards Turkish troops on Gulf of Saros; Russians sink German steamship
Derentie off Turkish coast; Norwegian ship Vaaren sunk by mine in North
Sea; three British ships sunk by mines.
Dec. 18--British auxiliary cruiser Empress of Japan captures collier
Exford with forty of Emden's crew on board; Russian Black Sea fleet
sinks two Turkish ships.
Dec. 19--Russian warship Askold captures German steamer Haifa and sinks
a Turkish steamer; British warships shell German positions between
Nieuport and Middelkerke.
Dec. 20--Allied fleets bombard interior forts of the Dardanelles.
Dec. 21--British capture German steamers Baden and Santa Isabel.
Dec. 22--Allied fleets shell German positions along Belgian coast;
French destroyer shells Turkish troops; allied fleets shell Kilid Bahr.
Dec. 23--Russian destroyers in Black Sea bombard coast villages.
Dec. 24--French cruiser slightly damaged by Austrian torpedo; French
submarine sunk by shore batteries.
Dec. 26--British make naval and air attack on German fleet without
important results; French attack Austrian naval base at Pola on the
Adriatic.
Dec. 27--British cruisers, assisted by seaplanes, attack German naval
base at Cuxhaven; British claim to have done considerable damage.
Dec. 29--English coast towns expected American sympathy over German
raid; dread new raid, and hold navy was dilatory.
Dec. 30--French submarine torpedoes Austrian dreadnought Viribus Unitis,
but fails to sink her.
Dec. 31--Thirty French and British warships are bombarding Pola.
Jan. 1--British battleship Formidable torpedoed and sunk in English
Channel; 600 men lost.
Jan. 4--Official Press Bureau at Berlin announces that the Formidable
was sunk by a submarine off Plymouth; British ships shell Dar-es-Salaam,
German East Africa.
Jan. 6--Turkish cruiser Goeben damaged by mines.
Jan. 7--Germans state that Austrian submarines are holding back French
fleet in the Adriatic.