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s for German squadron in the Pacific; Russians bombard Turkish Black Sea ports. Nov. 8--Russians report sinking of four Turkish transports; Turks sink Greek steamer carrying British flag; two Dardanelles forts destroyed by bombardment. Nov. 9--Emden escapes British warship, but loses her store ships; Russians bombard Bosporus ports; Swedish steamer Ate blown up by mine. Nov. 10--Australian cruiser Sydney wrecks German cruiser Emden, which had destroyed more than $5,000,000 worth of British shipping; war risks drop in consequence; British Admiralty reports that the German cruiser Koenigsberg has been bottled up in the Rufiji River, German East Africa. Nov. 11--British torpedo boat Niger sunk by German submarine; Japanese torpedo boat sunk by mine in Kiao-Chau Bay. Nov. 12--Turkish torpedo boat captured by Allies; Turkish cruiser Goeben crippled by shell. Nov. 14--News comes to America by mail of the sinking of the British super-dreadnought Audacious on Oct. 27 off the Irish coast; apparently done by a mine. Nov. 15--Many mines picked up by Dutch coast guards; mine layer flying Norwegian flag and manned by German sailors captured at Belfast; British cruiser Edinburgh aids in capture of Turba, Arabia, by Indian troops. Nov. 16--Mine cast up by sea kills seven in Holland. Nov. 17--Swedish steamer Andrew sunk by mine in North Sea; German squadron bombards Libau; Russian Black Sea fleet attacks Trebizond; German cruiser Berlin interns at Trondhjem to escape enemy. Nov. 19--British naval guns bombard Dixmude; French cruiser Waldeck Rousseau sinks Austrian submarine. Nov. 20--Austrian steamer Metkovitch sunk by mine off Dalmatian coast. Nov. 21--The Goeben badly damaged in Black Sea. Nov. 22--Turkish warships shell Taupse, but are repulsed by Russian land batteries. Nov. 23--British warship Patrol rams German submarine U-18 and captures crew off coast of Scotland; German destroyer S-124 wrecked in collision with Danish steamer. Nov. 24--French bark Valentine sunk by Germans near Island of Mas a Fuera; British ships attack German naval base at Zeebrugge. Nov. 25--British steamer Malachite sunk by German submarine near Havre. Nov. 26--British battleship Bulwark blown up in the Thames; magazine explosion is the accepted theory, but there is some suspicion that it was the work of spies; Turkish mine layer sunk in the Bosphorus; cruiser Goeben is being repaired. Nov. 27--British collier Kharto
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