k 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.
Sept. 26--Fortress of Pelagosa dismantled by Anglo-French fleet; British
cruiser Cornwall seizes Dutch steamer with coal consigned to Rio de
Janeiro; French gunboat Surprise sinks two German ships and seizes Coco
Beach, West Africa; British capture German ship Ossa and seize American
ship Lorenzo and Norwegian ship Thor accused of coaling German cruiser.
Sept. 28--French warship sunk at Cattaro by forts.
Sept. 29--German cruiser Emden has sunk five British steamers in Gulf of
Bengal and has destroyed all tank steamers at Madras; British warships
bombard Tsing-tau forts.
Sept. 30--British cruiser Cumberland captures Hamburg-American liner
Arnfried and nine merchant steamers; Italian ships sunk by Austrian
mines.
Oct. 1--Account given out of bombardment of Windau by German squadron;
fighting between German and Japanese warships in Kiao-Chau Harbor.
Oct. 2--British Admiralty plans to lay mines as counterstroke to German
policy; German cruisers shell Papeete, capital of French Island of
Tahiti; French gunboat sinks German auxiliary ships Rhios and Itolo;
German cruiser Liepzig sinks Union oil tanker Elsinore.
Oct. 3--German cruiser Karlsruhe sinks seven British ships; British
steamer Dawdon and Norwegian steamer Thomos sunk by mines; German
steamer Mark bottled up in Philippine port; Italian boat sunk by
Austrian mine; Japanese cruiser blown up by mine in Laoshan Bay.
Oct. 4--Anglo-French fleet bombards Cattaro and destroys Lustica; Dutch
steamer Nieuwland sunk by mine in North Sea; Rear Admiral Troubridge
recalled from Mediterranean to London to explain escape of German
cruisers Goeben and Breslau.
Oct. 5--Japanese capture Jaluit Island; British grain ship sunk by mine
near Dover; Japanese shells hit German gunboat Iltis in Tsing-tau
Harbor.
Oct. 6--French lay mines in Adriatic to offset similar action by
Austrians.
Oct. 7--British submarine sinks German destroyer off mouth of River Ems;
six Austrian torpedo craft reported sunk by mines in the Adriatic;
British trawler blown up in the North Sea.
Oct. 9--It is announced that thirty-two German merchant ships were
destroyed at Antwerp.
Oct. 10--Japanese warships s
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