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Show THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK August 7, 19 '. 3. Germans attacked Kovno and Ossowetz. French beat Germans in the Argonne and the Vosges, Germans captured Sierock on the Bug. Germans driven back near Riga. Heavy figthing at Arl Burnu and Sedd-ul-Bahr, Gallipoli. Two British and one Swedish vessel sunk by submarines. August 8, 1915. Germans crossed Vistula and took outlying fort of Novogeor-gievsk. Novogeor-gievsk. Violent attacks on French at Liege repulsed with great loss. German fleet repulsed in attack at-tack at mouth of Gulf of Riga. German steamer Meteor sank British patrol steamer Ramsey and was blown up to avoid capture. cap-ture. August 9, 1915. Germans bombarded Kovno and Lomza. Russians forced Germans back in Riga region. British captured 1,200 yards of German trenches near Hooge. British destroyer Lynx sunk by mine and cruiser India by torpedo. Allied submarine sank Turkish Turk-ish battleship Barbarossa. French aeroplanes attacked Saarbrucken. August 10, 1915. Austro-German forces captured cap-tured Lomza. Russians began to evacuate Kovno and Dvinsk. British position at Anzac, Gallipoli, Gal-lipoli, consolidated with Suvla bay-Anafarta front. Zeppelins bombarded English east coast. August 11, 1915. Germans reached Warsaw-Pe-trograd railroad southeast of Os-trov. Os-trov. German crown prince's army attacked strongly in the Argonne. Ar-gonne. Italian submarine torpedoed and sank Austrian submarine U-12. British submarines torpedoed Turkish cruiser Breslau. German submarines sank ten allied vessels. August 12, 1915. Germans repulsed by Russians near Riga and near Kovno. Siedlce captured by Germans. Austrians repulsed Italians attacks near Zagora. August 13, 1915. Germans advanced toward Brest-Litovsk. French began offensive In Arras region. German submarine 6ank British Brit-ish transport Royal Edward in Aegean; 1,000 lost. |