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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Feb. 28, 1915. Germans advanced west of the Vosges, forcing French back four miles. French took many German trenches in Champagne. Russians continued successful attack at-tack along whole western front. Turks evacuated Sinai peninsula. German embassy at Washington denied Stegler's stories. March 1, 1915. Two German corps defeated at Przasnysz. Ossowetz bombarded by Germans. Ger-mans. Turkish forces under Essad Pasha massed on Asiatic side of Dardanelles. Norwegian steamer rammed off English coast. Premier Asquith announced allies al-lies would cut off Germany from all trade with rest of the world. Hamburg-American line officials in New York indicted for conspiring conspir-ing against U. S. March 2, 1915. British gained ground near La Bassee. Russians won Dukla pass and took 10,000 Germans near Przasnysz. Przas-nysz. Austrians were defeated near Stanislau but gained in the Carpathians. Car-pathians. Russians shelled Czernowitz. American Red Cross sent supplies sup-plies and nurses to Serbia and Germany. Ger-many. March 3, 1915. Russians advanced from the Nie-men Nie-men and the Dniester. Austro-Germans driven back In Galicia. Germans demolished two Ossowetz Osso-wetz forts. Russians defeated Turks In the Caucasus. Allied fleet silenced three inner forts of Dardanelles. Germany modified relief ship rules. Heavy fighting near Basra, on Persian gulf. March 4, 1915. Hard fighting in the Vosges. In Melancourt woods Germans sprayed French with burning oil and chemicals. Russians checked Austrian drive in Bukowina. German submarine U-8 sunk by British destroyers. Allies began landing at Seddul Bahr, Dardanelles. March 5, 1915. Germans were checked at Reims. German armies in north split up by Russian advances. Turks abandoned campaign against Egypt. Allied fleet bombarded Smyrna. Germans sunk French ammunition ammuni-tion ship at Ostend. Zeppelin raid over Calais failed. Zeppelin L-8 wrecked near Tirle-mont. Tirle-mont. March 6, 1915. Russians attacked in center of eastern line and gained in North Poland. Austrians gave ground in East Galicia. British warships battered Dardanelles Dar-danelles forts, destroying one. Asia Minor ports shelled by allies, al-lies, Smyrna forts being silenced. Allies' landing party on Dardanelles Dar-danelles suffered severely. . |