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capitulate to English and French. March 4--Landing of allied troops on both sides of Dardanelles straits reported; German U-4 sunk by French destroyers. March 10--Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. March, 14--German cruiser Dresden sunk in Pacific by English. March 18--British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles strait. March 22--Fort of Przemysl surrenders to Russians. March 23--Allies land troops on Gallipoli peninsula. March 25--Russians victorious over Austrians in Carpathians. April 8--German auxiliary cruiser, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, interned at Newport News, Va. April 16--Italy has 1,200,000 men mobilized under arms; Austrians report complete defeat of Russians in Carpathian campaign. April 23--Germans force way across Ypres canal and take 1, prisoners. April 25--Allies stop German drive on Ypres line in Belgium. April 29--British report regaining of two-thirds of lost ground in Ypres battle. May 7--Liner Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of more than 1,000 lives, 102 Americans. May 9--French advance two and one-half miles against German forces north of Arras, taking 2,000 prisoners. May 23--Italy declares war on Austria. June 3--Germans recapture Przemysl with Austrian help. June 18--British suffer defeat north of La Bassee canal. June 28--Italians enter Austrian territory south of Riva on western shore of Lake Garda. July 3--Tolmino falls into Italian hands. July 9--British make gains north of Ypres and French retake trenches in the Vosges. July 13--Germans defeated in the Argonne. July 29--Warsaw evacuated; Lublin captured by Austrians. August 4--Germans occupy Warsaw. Aug. 14--Austrians and Germans concentrate 400,000 soldiers on Serbian frontier. Aug. 21--Italy declares war on Turkey. September 1--Ambassador Bernstorff announces Germans will sink no more liners without warning. Sept. 4--German submarine torpedoes liner Hesperian. Sept. 9--Germans make air raid on London, killing twenty persons and wounding 100 others; United States asks Austria to recall Ambassador Dumba. Sept. 20--Germans begin drive on Serbia to open route to Turkey. Sept. 22--Russian army retreating from Vilna, escapes German encircling movement. Sept. 25-30--Battle of Champagne, resulting in great advance for allied armies and causing Kaiser Wilhelm to rush to the west front; German counter attacks repulsed. October 5--Ru
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