ng'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 assemble in
Far East.

Aug. 3--Germans chase Norwegian food ship.

Aug. 4--Rival warships off Port of New York; British mine layer sunk by
German fleet; British fleet will aim to destroy Kiel Canal.

Aug. 5--British third flotilla has battle with Germans in North Sea;
cruiser Amphion damaged; German mine layer Koenigen Luise sunk; many
German merchant ships 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 ship.

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 ship
captured by French; Germans capture Russian cruiser; Japanese warships
off port of Tsing-tau; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau leave Genoa.

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

Aug. 9--British sink German submarine; cruiser Essex takes ship 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 fishing 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--Japanese Navy sails to join British fleet; Triple Entente
demands that Turkey repatriate crews of German cruisers; Austrian liner
bl