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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Dec. 20, 1914. Von Hindenburg advanced fur ther toward Warsaw. Russians crossed the Bzura. burning the bridges. Serbians and Montenegrins again invaded Bosnia. Turks mads gains near Lake Urumiah. Allied fleets bombarded Interior forts of the Dardanelles. Russians drove Turks toward Van. Belgian provinces agreed to pay tax to Germany. Dec. 21, 1914. Allies extended offensive operations oper-ations in west, gaining in center. Russians won over Turks In Armenia, capturing equipment. Allied aviators dropped bombs In Brussels and made night attack near Ostend. Chile protested against violations viola-tions of her neutrality by German navy. Germans driven across border of North Poland. Dec. 22, 1914. Germans claimed to have stopped allies In west. Germans accused of shelling hospital in Ypres. Russian army threatened railway rail-way to Thorn and Germans reformed re-formed to protect It. Von Hindenburg's left threatened threat-ened by new Invasion of Germany. Germans crossed branches of Bzura and Rawka rivers. Austrians defeated in the Carpathians. Car-pathians. Arabs menaced Christians In Hodelda and French consul was seized. Allied fleets bombarded German positions on Belgian coast. French destroyer shelled Turks. Allied fleets shelled Killd Bahr. Many Austrian soldiers killed in troop train accident. Dec. 23, 1914. Allies made slight gains In west. Austrian! defeated in southern Gallcia. Portuguese retreated before the Germans In Angola, Africa. Turkish army left Damascus and marched on Suez canal. Russian destroyers in Black tea bombarded Turkish villages. King of Belgians sent message of thanks to Americans. Dec. 24, 1914. i British using new howitzers In 0 German trenches. ? French cruiser damaged by Aua- d trian torpedo. French submarine sunk by Aus-9 Aus-9 trian shore batteries. German aviator dropped bomb 9 in Dover. Germany denied French charge of hiring neutral ships to lay mines in Mediterranean. Dec. 25, 1914. Unofficial Christmas along much of the western front, the allies and Germans in some instances ex changing gifts and visits. French shelled the outer forts of Metz. Civilians of East Prussia began movement toward Interior of province. prov-ince. Russo-Turkish operations were stopped by intense cold. Two German aviators flew up the Thames. Dec. 26, 1914. British made naval and air attack at-tack on German fleet without im portant results. Zeppelin dropped bombs In Nancy, German aeroplanes made raid in Russian Poland and French aviators attacked Metz. Fighting in Flanders was halted by dense fog. Russians made gains In the south. French attacked Austrian naval base at Pola In the Adriatic. Germany notified neutral nations their consuls In Belgium would not be recognized further. |