New York Times Current History The European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January Part 45

Oct. 15--Col. Brits's force captures eighty rebels under Col. Maritz; Gen. Botha takes field; prominent men arrested on charge of treason.

*NAVAL RECORD*.

July 26--British and French fleets ready for action; Servian vessels in Danube seized by Austrians; German fleet ordered concentrated in home waters; Italy ma.s.ses fleet.

July 29 and 30--British fleet leaves Portland; British and German fleets in Far East mobilize.

July 31--German squadron stops merchant vessels in Danish waters; British wars.h.i.+ps near; Montenegrin King's yacht escapes Austrian destroyers.

Aug. 2--Fight between German and Russian cruisers off Libau; German High Sea Fleet seizes Wilson liner Castro and a collier; fleets a.s.semble in Far East.

Aug. 3--Germans chase Norwegian food s.h.i.+p.

Aug. 4--Rival wars.h.i.+ps off Port of New York; British mine layer sunk by German fleet; British fleet will aim to destroy Kiel Ca.n.a.l.

Aug. 5--British third flotilla has battle with Germans in North Sea; cruiser Amphion damaged; German mine layer Koenigen Luise sunk; many German merchant s.h.i.+ps seized by English, French, and Russians; Germans bombard Sveaborg, torpedo boat blown up.

Aug. 6--British cruiser Amphion sunk by mine; French capture German tank steamer; Germans capture Russian s.h.i.+p.

Aug. 7--British and German cruisers reported in fight off Brazilian coast; British steamers destroyed by mines off German and Turkish coasts; British capture German steamer Schlesien; German merchant s.h.i.+p captured by French; Germans capture Russian cruiser; j.a.panese wars.h.i.+ps off port of Tsing-tau; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau leave Genoa.

Aug. 8--Thirty-six German s.h.i.+ps seized by Belgians; Russians capture Austrian and German merchant steamers; British capture German s.h.i.+p, said to be North German Lloyd liner; naval fight in Adriatic; interest in position of Goeben and Breslau; bombardment of Libau reported by s.h.i.+p Captain.

Aug. 9--British sink German submarine; cruiser Ess.e.x takes s.h.i.+p at sea; Goeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles; two German steamers taken at Rouen and one at Colombo; England and France protest against German steamer Karlsruhe coaling at Porto Rico; firing off Shanghai; British fleet proceeds to Tsing-tau; Austrian cruisers bombard Antivari.

Aug. 10--Cruiser Birmingham sinks German submarine U-15; British close North Sea to fis.h.i.+ng fleets; Dutch steamer sunk in Baltic; Belgians seize two Austrian steamers; English and Canadian steamers hunt in Atlantic for German cruisers.

Aug. 11--Battle in the Adriatic; Russians capture twenty German merchant vessels in Baltic.

Aug. 12--German destroyer sunk by mine off South Gedser.

Aug. 13--German cruisers bombard Windau; France will check Austria's navy; British said to have bottled up German Far Eastern squadron; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau are flying Turkish flag.

Aug. 15--j.a.panese Navy sails to join British fleet; Triple Entente demands that Turkey repatriate crews of German cruisers; Austrian liner blown up by mine in the Adriatic; British capture Austrian liner Marienbad; German steamer W.W. Schneefels brought to Gibraltar as war prize.

Aug. 16--French fleet said to have sunk two Austrian s.h.i.+ps in the Adriatic.

Aug. 17--German dreadnought said to be damaged in Norwegian port; French sink Austrian cruiser in the Adriatic; German cruiser Karlsruhe said to have sunk four British merchantmen; British cruisers capture Hamburg-American liners Cap Ortegal and Santa Catharina.

Aug. 18--Two German cruisers captured and taken to Hongkong; fight between British and German patrol fleets.

Aug. 20--British steamer Hostilius captured by German cruiser Dresden; German fleet said to have sh.e.l.led three Russian ports.

Aug. 21--British and French wars.h.i.+ps and Montenegrin batteries bombard Cattaro; two German Hansa liners seized at Bombay and Hamburg-American s.h.i.+p at Rangoon.

Aug. 22--Steamers Maryland and Broberg sunk by mines in North Sea; two Dutch steamers reported sunk; German cruiser Dresden sinks British steamer Hyades; British cruiser Glasgow captures German s.h.i.+p Santa Kathina; French capture German four-master and Austrian steamer; account made public of sinking of Austrian battles.h.i.+p Zrinyi.

Aug. 23--Anglo-French fleets destroy Austrian cruiser Zenta and bombard Cattaro; Dutch steamer Alcor blown up by Russians to block Hango harbor; report that French, English, and Russian vessels are aiding j.a.pan to blockade Kiao-Chau.

Aug. 24--j.a.panese fleet has begun bombardment of Tsing-tau; Cattaro badly damaged by British and French fleets.

Aug. 25--German steamer Elizabeth sunk.

Aug. 26--British defeated in battle with German torpedo boat off Kiao-Chau.

Aug. 27--British cruiser Highflyer sinks Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse; British marines occupy Ostend; German cruiser Magdeburg sunk in Gulf of Finland; mines in North Sea sink a Danish and a Norwegian steamer; j.a.panese bombard island near Kiao-Chau and blockade port.

Aug. 28--British fleet sinks two German cruisers, sets fire to third, and sinks two torpedo boats off Heligoland; Germans fire at j.a.panese fleet near Kiao-Chau; Austrian destroyer sunk by British off Corfu; British cruiser Welland sinks German torpedo destroyer; other German s.h.i.+ps captured; six vessels blown up in North Sea by mines; Russians capture crew of German cruiser Magdeburg.

Aug. 29--Port of Cape Jaeschke blocked by j.a.panese wars.h.i.+ps; pa.s.senger steamer destroyed by mines near Russian port.

Aug. 30--British official account of battle off Heligoland; New Zealand expeditionary force captures Apia.

Aug. 31--German gunboat sh.e.l.ls abandoned j.a.panese destroyer at Kiao-Chau.

Sept. 2--British and French s.h.i.+ps again bombard Cattaro; steam drifter Eyrie sunk by mine in North Sea.

Sept. 4--British cruiser sinks Austrian steamer Bathori in Bay of Biscay; British gunboat Speedy sunk by mine in North Sea; British steams.h.i.+p Bowes Castle sunk by German cruiser off St. Lucia.

Sept. 5--German s.h.i.+ps sink fifteen British trawlers in North Sea.

Sept. 6--Cruiser Pathfinder destroyed by mine.

Sept. 7--British submarine strikes German wars.h.i.+ps in Bremerhaven Harbor.

Sept. 10--British capture German, collier.

Sept. 11--Germans destroy Russian steamer Uleaborg.

Sept. 12--Australian Navy occupies Herbertshoehe in Bismarck Archipelago; British take German coal s.h.i.+p Heinze.

Sept. 14--Germans capture Fanning Island and cable station; German cruiser Hela sunk.

Sept. 17--German fleets fire on each other in Baltic by mistake; British cruiser seizes Holland-America, liner Ryndam: French cruiser Conde captures German stores.h.i.+p Helna; Canadian Pacific liner made a British cruiser in Pacific; German cruiser Luxemburg reported to have sunk three British freighters in West Indies.

Sept. 19--Australian submarine AE-1 lost; Austrian wars.h.i.+p Viribus Unitis damaged in Adriatic.

Sept. 20--Carmania sinks German merchant cruiser Cap Trafalgar; German cruiser Konigsberg disables British cruiser Pegasus; fighting between British and German s.h.i.+ps in Kamerun River, Africa; six British s.h.i.+ps captured by German cruiser Emden; damaged Russian wars.h.i.+ps arrive at Helsingfors; Austrian torpedo boat 27 sunk at Pola; German cruiser Stettin fights British wars.h.i.+ps.

Sept. 21--British steamer Clan Matheson sunk by German cruiser Emden; crews of six captured vessels landed in India.

Sept. 22--British cruiser Berwick captures Hamburg-American liner Spreewald and two German colliers; German submarine U-9 sinks British cruisers Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue in North Sea; British steamer Belgian King sunk near Cape Kureli.

Sept. 23--Russian cruiser Bayan sinks German cruiser and two torpedo boats; Germany says submarine U-9 sunk British s.h.i.+ps unaided in North Sea fight yesterday; Austrian cruisers Maria Theresia and Admiral Staun damaged; trawler Kilmarnock sunk by mine.

Sept. 24--Two Austrian torpedo boats and one destroyer sunk by mines in the Adriatic; Norwegian steamer Hesvik sunk in North Sea; cruiser Emden bombards Madras; Anglo-French fleet again bombards Cattaro.

Sept. 25--Kronprinz Wilhelm sinks British steamer Indian Prince; British charge that Germans fired on Carmania after white flag was raised.