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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Oct. 11, 1914. Heavy fighting near Soissons. German attacks in Craonne region re-gion repulsed. Allies won in the center. Montenegrins defeated Austri-ans Austri-ans near Kalenovitch. Russians swept through Buko-wlna. Buko-wlna. Austrians rushed help to Prze-mysl. Prze-mysl. French fleet sank two Austrian torpedo boats. German aviators killed three In Paris with bombs. Japanese aviators dropped bombs in Tsingtau. Russian cruiser Pallada torpedoed torpe-doed and sunk In Baltic. Oct. 12, 1914. Germans occupied Ghent. Belgian government moved to Havre, France. Battles at Laslgny and Lens. Cavalry fighting near Lille. Russians abandoned siege of Przemysl and retreated from Ga-licia. Ga-licia. Six more bombs dropped on Paris. Oct. 13, 1914. Germans moved on Ostend and Bruges. Lille, Hazebrouck and Ypres occupied oc-cupied by Germans. Fierce fighting at Dixmude, General Gen-eral von Kluck trying to turn al-lie' al-lie' left wing. Germans made dash for Warsaw. War-saw. Montenegrins defeated Austrians Austri-ans hear Sarajevo. Detachment of Boers under Colonel Col-onel Maritz rebelled and martial law was proclaimed throughout South Africa. French routed German aviators near Paris. Oct 14, 1914. Belgian army left Ostend and joined allies in the field. Allies reocupied Ypres and French gained near the border. German battalion trapped in canal ca-nal In Lorraine. Germans occupied Bruges. Germans recaptured Lyck but advance on Warsaw was repulsed by Russians. Russians in Galicia driven back. Serbians beaten back in Bosnia. Cossacks brought down a Zeppelin Zeppe-lin near Warsaw. Oct. 15, 1914. Germans took Ostend and Blan-kenberghe Blan-kenberghe on the North sea, and Thiett, Daume and Esschen. Allies retook Estaire. French recaptured Altkirch and Muelhausen. German convoy taken by the French. Colonel Brits' force in South Af rica captured 80 rebel Boers; General Botha took the field. British cruiser Yarmouth sunk German liner Markomannla. Oct. 16, 1914. Germans occupied Zeebrugge. First battle of Ypres began. Re-enforced allied north wing swung In on Lille and retook Ar mentieres. Attempt of Germans to reach Dunkirk checked. Germans at St. Mlhiel forced back toward Alsatian border. German-Austrian forces assumed the offensive between the Vistula and Galicia. Serbs and Montenegrins defeated defeat-ed Austrians at Glasinatz. British cruiser Hawke sunk by German submarine. British and Japanese warships bombarded Tsingtau fort. |