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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE,
1915.
THE WAR.
COUNTRIES. ENGAGED.
Germany
Austria
Turkey.
against
Britain. Russia.* France.
Belgium. Italy
Japan Servia
Montenegro
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ARMY TERMS EXPLAINED. Army corps is a complete army on a small scale in itself. Thi strength varies from 35,000 to 45,000 men.
Division is a force of infantrys cavalry, and artillery, usually with a strength of from 15,000 to 20,000 men.
Brigade is a force of infantry o
cavalry. The infantry brigade ia from 4,000 to 7,000 strong. The cavalry brigade is from 1,000 to 2,000 strong, Regiment of infantry is from
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A
cavalry regiment is from 500 to 1,000 men strong.
Squadron of cavalry is from 150
to 200 men strong.
Battery of artillery in the British and French armies has 6 gues and about 200 men. In the Gorman Army consists of 4 In the gune and 150 men.
Russian Army it consists of E 'guns and 250 men.
PRINCIPAL EVENTS.
June 28-Archduke Francis Fer-
·dinand assassinatedi
Jaly 23-Austria aends an ulti-
matum to Servia...
July 31-Russia orders general
mobilisation.
Aug. 1-Germany declared war on Russia, French Cabinet orders general mobilisation. " Aug. 2 -German forces enter
Luxemburg.
Ang: 4-England sends altima
tum, demanding observance of Belgian neatrality. Ger- many rejecta ultimatum. Aug. 5.-England at war. Ang. -Germans enter Liege.
French
invade southern
Alsace,
Aug. 15.-Austriansenter Servia. Japan senda altimatum to Germany.
Aug. 17.—British land in France. Aug. 19-Beginning of battle of
Lorraine.
Aug.20-Germans enter Bruasala. Aug. 23-Germans enter Namur. Aug, 24-British begin retreat
from Mons,
Aug. 25 French evacuate Ma
hausen.
Aug. 26-Germans take Longwy. Aug. 27 Louvain burned by
Germans, Japanese block- ada Tsingtau. Aug. 28--Battle of Heligoland." Sept. 2-German advance reaches
Senlia. French Government moves to Bordeaux. Sept. 3-Russiana occupy Lem-
borg.
Sept. 5-Battle of the Marne
begins,
Sept. 7--Maabouge taken by the
¡Germans. Sept. 12-German retreat halte
on the Aisne. Sept. 20 Germana bombard
Rheims. Sept. 22-German
submarine
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Oct. 17 — Russiana
reoccupy
Lodz and Radom. Oct. 29-Turkish naval attrckson
Odessa and in the Crimea. Oct. 30-Col. Maritz, rebel lender
driven out of Cape Colony. Nov. 1 German naval victory
off the coast of Chili.
Nov. 3-German squadron makes
a raid on British coast.
the Mesaudish in Dardanelles. Deo. 15-Austrisne evacuate Bel-
grade,
Dec. 16-German cruisera bom- bard Scarborough and Hartlepool.
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Dec. 18-Egypt, proclaimed a British protectorate. Gen. Botha reports Boer rebellion 18 at an end.
4
20-26-Severe fighting on the line of the Bzura River. Deo. 23-French Chamber votes
Nov. 4-German craiser Yorck
strikes thins in Jade Bay. Dec. Nov. 5-England and Franco de- clare war on Turkey. Dur- danelles forts bombarded. sinks British oruizora Abou-Nov. 6-Tsingtau surrenders. kir, Creasy, and Hogue. Nov. 7 Russians enter East Sept. 26-Indian troops land at Prussia.
Marseilles.
Sapt. 28-Germans begin siege of
Antwerp. Oct. 2-Germans defeated at
Augustowo.
Oct. 5--Belgian Government re- moved from Antwerp to Ostend.
Ook 7-Bombardment of Ant-
trerp.
Oct. 9-Antwerp, occupied by
the Germans
.:
Oct. 12-A Boer commando in the Cape Province mutinies, Oot, 13 Belgian Government transferred from Ostend to Havre, Oct. 14-Allies occupy Ypres.
Battle begins on the Vistula Oct. 15 Oatend occupied by
the Germans,
Oot, 16-British cruiser Hawke
war credit of £340,000,000. Dec. 25-British naval and aerial
Nov. 10--The Emden destroyed, Nov. 11-Germans capture Dix-Jau
raid against Cuzbaven. Dec. 28 French occupy St. Georges, near Nieuport, 1, 1915-IV.S. Formidable made.
sank in the Channel, Nov. 19
House of Commons Jan,3-French capture Steinbach, voles a new army of 1,000,000 Jan. 3-4-Rossians win decisive men. More than 1,100,000.; victory over Turke in the Nov. 23-Rassisna surround Gor- Caucasus.
Jan, 8-French advance Boross Aisne, north of Spissons. 18-Turks ccoupy Tabriz Count Berchtold resigns,
19-German air fleet bom bards Yarmouth.n
man corpa south of Lodz. Nov. 20-British battleship Bul-
wark destroyed by explosion Jan. in the Medway River." Dec. 1-German Reichstag votes Jan. new credit of five billion marks, King George visits Jan. Dec. 2-Austrians occupy Bel-
Flanders:
grade. Gen. De Wet captor- Jan,
Khrhardt Capt. W
Donman Fuller
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Randall Mr. J. A
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Glaister Mis
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Goodrich L
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Hawdon M
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'Rawlinson RJ Robertson Mr &
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Lawson J W Lowis FS May Min P
Clarke Miss May
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Wilson M J.,
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Feb. 6-Allies resolve to nnite
financial resources.
Feb. 8-Total British calties
to date 104,000. Feb. 10-Germans execute the
rebel Maritz, Feb. 17-Canadian contingent
landa in France.
Feb. 20-27-Over 10,000 Ger
mana surrender in France. Feb. 27-Allied Fleet enters the
Dardanelles.
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Mar. 1-House of Commons votes supplementary credit of 37 millions and a fresh credit
of 250 millions, March 8-British aeroplanes
altack Ostend, March 0-Second Canadian con-
tingent lande in England. March 3-10--Four German sub- marines accounted for,
capture March 10.-British
Neuve Chapelle. March 14.-German lossss at La Bassee total 10,000 in three daye.
Hastland FA
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Smith Mr&MɑEG Smith Mr & Mrs AF Squaic Mra
Humphreys Mr and Trahn J A
Mrs WO
Vandon Mr&MrsPol Grand Hotel.
"Allen Mr & Mrs
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Crow Mr & Mrs
Gibbs A W
Grant J Gudd G James B
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Leon B Lookey W H Reynolds W Rooze FG Yode V.D Wright BH
March 25,-German submarine
U200 anuk with all hands. March 29.-Russian Fleet bom- bards the Bephoras. Ger- man submarine sinks West African liner Falaba.
March 31-Australia offers an
other contingent. April 8-Prinz Eitel Friederich
interned in Norfolk Navy. Yard, U.S.A.
9-Germany assumes liabili
April
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C. MOUSSION
April 19-Austria's request for food-stuffs to be allowed to pass through Italy refused. April 20-German Note protetta
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Berlin Public Tricked by
Impostors.
Amsterdam. The German news
against the seizure, by papers announce that, several the British, of the s.o. Faklat. men have recaptly appeared in Sir John French repudiates Berlin as'survivors of the Enden German statement that the ni the Ayesha, and hava been British badused sephixinting madeheroes of by the public, whom they have cheated in all sorts of gases, April 21-Russian torpedo-boats ways. As a matter of fact, the eink ten Turkish vessele newspapers say, not a single loaded with munitions,. survivor of the Emden or the April 22-Tarke prevent Italians Ayesha has yet returned to
in Tarkey from responding Germany-Router. to mobilitation call. Anti-war ricts in Trieste.
Family Wants a Regiment of its Own. April 24-Allies land at three points of the Gallipoli pen- insula.
April 26-Canadians' victory it Ypres. General attack on the Dardanelles by land and
sea forcés.
WAR ITEMS.
Killed In Action, Mmo, and M. Moyaonier of Hat
Mrs. Dully of Massey-street, Barnley, who celebrated her 84th birthday this week, bus nearly a hundred direot descendants ger- ving with the Forces. Her grand- father was Beoldier, and her father fought at Waterloo. She was born "on the strength in Egypt. She has five children and
and forty grandchildren, and all the males who are of age are wearing the King's uniform. Mrs. Daffy has about 40 relatives in Wigan, and she says it is a pity they could not have a regiment of their own.
ty for the sinking of the American ship William Frye. Anti-Austrian demonstra-phong, says the Courried Haip: tions at Genoe,.
***hong, have received information April 10-German Note to that their nephew M. Antoin Got,
The Way of the Hun.******* United States complains that aged 31 years, a sergeant major
Here is a story brought to Eng- the latter has accomplished in the French Army, has been nothing by her diplomatic killed at Vauquois. The deceased land by a Belgian lady, whose home was a cluteau near LoUYAID. Garrespondence with Allies, leaves a widow and two children number of German cffcera
March 14-The Dresden sunk April
21-General Falkenhayn, March 18-British battleships
German War Minister, resigns,***
24-British naval vistory in North Sea: the Blucher suak, Deo. 8--Servisne defeat Aus. Jan, 28--Germans loss heavily at
trians in three days' battle, Dec. 6-Germans occupy Lodz. Doo, 8-British naval victory off
Falkland Islands,
sunk by German submarine. Oct. 24 Ten days battle beDec. 9 Gen, Byers, Bet leader, Fore Warraw ends in German killed at the Vaal River.
Givency and Cainohy.
Jan. 31-Germany inaugurates
submarine raids,
Feb. 3-German suxiliary cruiser
suuk off Pa
Dec. 15—British submarine sinks
Snes Capal
off Jaan Fernandez Island. Murch 16,-Sir John French estimates German losses in La Basses region to be 17,000.
Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk by floating mines in March 19 Russianaenter Memel. March 21-Fatile Zeppelin raid
on Paris,
Dardanellos.
"Better Late than Never."
Official atatement as to ill. treatment of British prisoners
Under the heading "Better were quartered in her house late than Never", the Courrier Their behaviour frightened her in Germany.
d' Haiphong states that German She appealed to the militar 11-German Socialista lasue membershave been excluded from governor. He answered her with Pada pamphlets: Bishop of London visita entire Front. the English Clabs at Shanghai a gross insult. She left her home April 12 New York Herald and Hongkong, and the Clerman and heard that in her absence
Clate in Australia have been had been burnt. Ratarning: t
it she made some inquiries Tianed Goods may be sent to group of German oligera stoff should be given his closed by the Authorities.
tbe told, who replied that: Germany, Lausanne, The Swiss Pri- house was untouched, and offers Boners of War Bureau learns that to escort her back. When E
́demands that Count Bern-
passports,
April13-Sir John French nake for
extra munitions.
April 14-HMS. Renard stoame Germany has permitted tinned came within sighting distant ten miles up the Dardanelles. foods to be sent to prizoners of of her dwelling she found that Fatile Zeppelin raid on Nor-war since April 11. All food is bad vanished. The offoere bur thumbrian cosat,
accepted now except that which into rode laughter at her d
no
April 16-Dutch, as. Katwyck is soon Hatch 22 Preamyal surrenders
A torpedoed without notion. to the Russians, March 24. British airmen mo- April 18-E: 15 tuni ashore in
the Dardanelles; ofloers and the to cross cessfully attack German
men made prisoners, submarine wor cat
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