Show FHE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK dec 13 1914 allies won three day battle on the lys french in the st region germans were defeated in the alawa region austrian right wing driven into besnia bosnia by serbians Serb ians was attacked by montenegrins Montene grins brussels and suburbs decided to pay fine to germans italian artilleryman artillerymen artillery men of older classes called out antiwar demonstrations by worn en of konak and Erz erum turkey dec french continued their offensive in alsace and 1 orralee serbians Serb ians belgrade lans cukla in the Carpathia ns capturing 9 russians germans made gains in north ern poland british submarine B II 11 sank turkish battleship in the dardanelles Darda nelles pro germans mobbed in rome dec allies advanced on entire front in effort to drive germans from belgium german attacks south of cypres ypres were repulsed germans rushed fresh troops to the vistula austrians Aust rians re crossed Carpathia ns into gallela and drove russian left back toward the san river tribesmen threatened egypt german cruiser cormorant was interned at guam turks bombarded sevastopol deo germans evacuated and allies made gains from arras to the sea germans forced the fighting in the argonne but were repulsed in the region and in alsace king peter entered belgrade at head of army russians collected new army at warsaw german warships shelled scarborough hartlepool Hartle pool and whitby killing about british warships shelled west ende dec 17 1914 allies entered westende We more german troops rushed to belgium russian offensive against silesia and posen declared broken lans had successes tn west gallela austrian training ship beethoven sunk by mine british squadron bombarded turkish troops on gulf of saros field marshal von der goltz made commandant at constant nople england declared protectorate over egypt ending turkish uz eral nty dec allies occupied routers heavy fighting in lille and near arras russians won in gallela between sanor and alsko announced capture of and turks in asia minor were reen re en forced russian black sea fleet sank two turkish ships dec british warships shelled german positions on belgian coast of baroda bought em press of india for hospital ship allies gained at several points from north sea to the oise but lost near la bassee germans captured lowicz severe fighting on the bzura and in gallela Gall cla russians held lines on the duna jec river against fierce attacks |