uadron in North Sea and
sinks the battle cruiser Blucher.

28.--American bark, William P. Frye, sunk by German cruiser in South
Atlantic.

February

10.--Russians defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes.

18.--German submarine "blockade" of British Isles begins.

25.--Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles.

March

2.--Allied troops land at Kum-Kale, on Asiatic side of Dardanelles.

10.--British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle.

14.--Dresden, German raiding cruiser, is sunk by British squadron off
the Chilean coast.

22.--Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians.

April

22.--Poison gas first used by Germans in attack on Canadians at Ypres,
Belgium.

May

1.--American steamer Gulflight torpedoed off Scilly Isles by German
submarine; 3 lives lost.

2.--British South Africa troops under General Botha capture Otymbingue,
German Southwest Africa.

7.--Germans capture Libau, Russian Baltic port.

7.--Lusitania, Cunard liner, sunk by German submarine off Kinsale Head,
Irish coast, with loss of 1152 lives; 102 Americans.

23.--Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and begins invasion on a
60-mile front.

24.--American steamer Nebraskan torpedoed by German submarine off Irish
coast, but reaches Liverpool in safety.

31.--German Zeppelins bombard suburbs of London.

June

1.--Germany apologizes for attack on Gulflight and offers reparation.

3.--Austrians recapture Przmysl.

3.--British forces operating on Tigris capture Kut-el-Amara.

4-6.--German aircraft bombs English towns.

7.--Bryan, U. S. Secretary of State, resigns.

15.--Allied aircraft bombs Karlsruhe, Baden, in retaliation.

22.--Lemberg recaptured by Austrians.

26.--Montenegrins enter Scutari, Albania.

July

9.--German Southwest Africa surrenders to British South African troops
under Gen. Botha.

25.--American steamer, Leelanaw, Archangel to Belfast with flax,
torpedoed off Scotland.

31.--Baden bombarded by French aircraft.

August

5.--Warsaw captured by Germans.

6.--Ivangorod occupied by Austrians.

6.--Gallipoli Peninsula campaign enters a second stage with the
debarkation of a new force of British troops in Suvla Bay, on the west
of the peninsula.

8.--Russians defeat German fleet of 9 battleships and 12 cruisers at
entrance of Gulf of Riga.

19.--Arabic, White Star liner, sunk by submarine off Fastnet; 44 lives
lost; 2 Americans.

25.--Brest-Litovsk, R