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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Jan. 10, 1915. French cut German railway lines to prevent relief of Altktrch. Turks marched on Egypt. Turkish army of reserves, trying to save Erzerum, repulsed at frontier. fron-tier. i German aviators threw thirty bombs on Dunkirk. French aviators defeated German i airmen in battle at great altitude. Abbas Hilml, deposed khedive, called on Egyptians and Sudanese to rise against England. Jan. 11, 1915. Allies, attacking from Perthes, tried to cut German rail communications. communi-cations. Russian lines greatly re-enforced. Military authorities took over all blankets In Berlin and Brandenburg. Branden-burg. Italy sent garrisons to her Islands Isl-ands in the Aegean. American party on way to relieve re-lieve German and Austrian prisoners pris-oners in Russia halted temporarily by Russian government. Jan. 12, 1915. French attempted offensive near Perthes and Soissons. Germans repulsed French in Alsace. Al-sace. Russians pressed the Austrians back near the Nida river. Austrians were fleeing from Bukowina. Turks and Russians fought for the Erzerum road; Noury Bey taken tak-en by Russians. British government asked women to persuade men to enlist. Remainder of Turkish Tenth army corps routed at Kara Ourdan. Jan. 131915, Germans victorious at Soissons, "orcing French to abandon five miles of trenches and cross the Aisne, leaving guns and wounded. Kaiser watched Germans take the heights of Vregny. Russians occupied villages In Mazurian lake region and threatened threat-ened Mlawa. Turks occupied Tabriz and reported re-ported Arab victory over British on lower Tigris. Dover forts drove off two Ger- tm k ihmarinc HHIes bombarded by allied l915. orisoners and Wtle at Sois- y russia Britisi rth in Por4 :; on HindenSjrg-s forces o7 be in peril. f Sritish took Swakopn American Red Cros :s to Saloniki and ryland sent relief m. Jf Jan. 1 ustrians bro: to hold thy srman tror alian gun ie Adriat srman h i |
