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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK March 14, 1915. French occupied Vauquois, In the Argonne, and Embermenil. British repelled German attack on Neuve Chapelle. Belgians made gains on the Yser. Russians checked German advance ad-vance In the Mlawa region. Three British cruisers sanK Ger-man Ger-man cruiser Dresden near Juan Fernandez island. French steamer Auguste Consell sunk by German submarine. March 15, 1915. French captured trenches north of Arras. Germans drove back British south of Ypres but were beaten at Neuve Chapelle. Russians captured chief eastern defense of Przemysl. Severe fighting in Bukowlna and In ice fields of the Carpathians. Britain refused to modify blockade block-ade order. March 16, 1915. Belgians crossed the Yser,and drove Germans from trenches south of Nieuport. British recaptured St. Elol. Russians drove back Teuton army that was marching on Przas-nysz. Przas-nysz. , Russians routed Turks In Armenia. Ar-menia. Vice-Admiral Carden succeeded by Vice-Admiral de Robeck at Dardanelles. Dar-danelles. German liner Macedonia, Interned at Canary islands, escaped. March 17, 1915. Belgians carried two positions In Yser region. Westende was bombarded. Russians crossed German frontier fron-tier in two places. Battle being fought for possession posses-sion of Tarnowice. British lost three mine sweepers in the Dardanelles. March 18, 1915. Belgian army advanced further in Yser region. Germans vainly shelled heights of Notre Dame de Lorette. Turkish soldiers killed civilians in Urumiah district, Persia. British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk by mines in Dardanelles; Dar-danelles; 600 lost with Bouvet. French submarine sunk and other warships of allies damaged. German submarine sank British steamer Glenartney in English channel. Denmark, Norway and Sweden protested against British blockade of Germany. Bombs from a Zeppelin killed seven in Calais. Roumanian government seized shells in transit from Germany to Turkey. March 19, 1615. British and Germans fought In underground passages of Ramscap-pelle Ramscap-pelle monastery. Memel, German port on Baltic, occupied by Russians. Von Hindenburg started new offensive of-fensive in Central Poland. Russians took Archawa from Turks. British steamers Hyndfor and Bluejacket torpedoed in English channel. March 20, 1915. Russians won battle In ctreets of Memel. , Sortie by Przemysl garrison repulsed, re-pulsed, Holland protested against trade embargo. Persian government called on Russia to evacuate province of Az-erbijan. |