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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Oct. 25, 1914. Germans crossed Yser canal near Dixmude. Battle at Nieuport. Russians drove Germans from Vistula river and retook Lodz and Radom. Austro-Germans defeated near Przemysl. Heavy fighting In Bosnia. Japanese sank German cruiser Aeolius off Honolulu. Rebellion by De Wet and Beyers in South Africa. Oct. 26, 1914. German advance checked on the Yser. Battle between Rawa and the lijanka river. '' French steamer Amiral Gan-teaume, Gan-teaume, loaded with refugees, sunk by torpedo or mine off Boulogne. Slayers of Archduke Ferdinand found guilty of treason. German property In France taken ta-ken into .ti-steeship. Oct. 27, 1914. Allies captured Thourout and claimed Germans were driven across border near Nancy. Fierce battles between La Bas-see Bas-see and the Somme. New Russian army crossed the Vistula north of Ivarigorod. Russians drove Germans from Rawa. British dreadnaught Audacious sunk off Ireland by mine or torpedo. tor-pedo. Germans laid mines off Irish coast. Oct. 28, 1914. Allies repulsed night attack near Dixmude and made gains in Ypres region and between La Bassee and Lens. Germans retreated before Russians Rus-sians advancing from Warsaw and I vangorod. Battle along Rsver San. Hungarian cavalry division almost al-most annihilated in Galicia. Belgians defeated Germans on Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Emden sank a Japanese steamer. Japanese cruiser Chitose repelled re-pelled attack of two German warships. war-ships. Holland army massed on border to prevent invasion. Oct. 29, 1914. Allies gained near Ostend. Germans made gains west of Lille and southwest of Verdun. Germans intrenched themselves near Thielt. Russians split opposing armies north and south of Piliza river. Northern German army in retreat. re-treat. Allies took Edoa, Africa. Turkey began war on Russia by bombarding Odessa and Theodo-sla Theodo-sla from sea. Emden sank Russian cruiser and French destroyer in Penang harbor. German airmen dropped bombs on Bethune, killing 19 women. Prince Louis of Battenberg resigned re-signed as first sea lord of British admiralty, being succeeded by Sir John Fisher. Oct. 30, 1914. Belgians flooded lower Yser valley, val-ley, compelling Germans to withdraw. with-draw. Germans made gains In the Ar-gonne. Ar-gonne. Russians, pursuing retreating Germans, captured guns and aeroplanes aero-planes and retook Czernowitz. Austrians defeated near Tarnow. Japanese, aided by Indian troops, attacked Germans at Tsing-tau. Tsing-tau. German cruiser Koenigsberg bottled up in Rufiji river on African Af-rican coast. Turkish torpedo boats bombarded bom-barded Odessa, sinking one Russian Rus-sian gunboat, three liners and French steamer. Russian and Turkish fleets fought in Black sea. German reserves of 1914 called out. American commission sent foodstuffs food-stuffs to Belgium. |