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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK March 27, 1915. French captured summit of Hart-m?nnsweilerkopf. Hart-m?nnsweilerkopf. Violent fighting in the Carpathians. Carpa-thians. Austrians made gains in Buko-wina. Buko-wina. U. S. battleship Alabama sent to Norfolk to keep Prinz Eitel Fried-rich Fried-rich from leaving. German aviators dropped bombs on Calais and Dunkirk. March 28, 1915. Russians broke into Hungary and attacked Lupkow and Uszok passes. British liner Falaba sunk by German Ger-man submarine; 110 lost. British steamer Aguila torpedoed by Germans; 26 lost. Russians bombarded Bosporus forts and allies shelled Dardanelles forts. More air bombs dropped on Calais. March 29, 1915. French pressed Germans hard In Champagne. Germans again shelled Reims. Austrians made gains at several points. Dutch steamer Amstel blown up by mine. Attack on Bosporus and Dardanelles Darda-nelles continued. German Baltic fleet out. March 30, 1915. Russians stormed mountain crests in Carpathians. Austrians began big drive across Bukowina. Turkish seaplane dropped bombs on British warship near Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. Turkish government promised to protect Christians at Urumiah. t March 31, 1915. Germans bombarded Llbau. Russians fought way down slope of Carpathians Into Hungary. German army corps cut to pieces in North Poland. British steamers Flaminian and Crown of Castile sunk by submarines. subma-rines. German soldiers near Thourout, Belgium, killed by bombs from aeroplanes. aero-planes. German airmen raided Ostrolen-ka, Ostrolen-ka, Russia. King George gave up liquor In royal household. April 1, 1915. French occupied Fey-en Haye. Russians began lively offensive in Central Poland, but wen repulsed re-pulsed by Austrians near Inowlodz on the Pilica. Germans checked Russians at Rawka river. British took Aus, German West Africa. British vessels and airmen shelled Zeebrugge and Hoboken. German submarines sank a British Brit-ish and a French steamer; 30 lost. April 2, 1915. Heavy artillery fighting between the Meuse and Moselle. Russians took offensive along entire en-tire front. Moorish rebels occupied Fez and Mekines. German submarines destroyed several vessels. Allied aviators made numerous raids on Germans on west front. American sanitary experts sailed to fight typhus in Serbia. |