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THE WAR.

COUNTRIES ENGAGED,

Germany

Austria

Turkey

against

Britain.

Russia.

Franco.

Belglum, Јарап. Servia. Montenegro,

ARMY TERMS EXPLAINED. Army corps is a complete army on a small sale in itself. The strength' varies from 35,000 to 45,000 men.

Division is a force of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, usually with a strength of from 15,000 to 20,000 men.

A

Brigade is a force of infantry o cavalry. The infantry brigade is from 4,000 to 7,000 strong, The cavalry brigade is from 1,000 to 2,000 strong. Regiment of infantry, is from

2,000 to 4,000 strong. 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 guns and about 200 mea. In the German Army consists of 4 guns and 150 men, In the Bassian Army it consiste of 8 guns and 250 men..

PRINCIPAL EVENTS, June 28-Arohduke Francis Fer

dinand assassinated. July 23-Austria sends an alti

matum to Servis. July 31-Russia orders general

mobilisation.

Aug. 1-Germany declares war on Russia. French Cabinet ordera general mobilisation.

Aug: 2 German forces enter Luxemburg. Germany de- manda free pasengo through Belgium.

Ang. 4-England sends ultima- tum, demanding observance, of Belgian neutrality. Ger- maby rejects ultimatum. German troope attack Liege, Aug 5. England announces a

alate of war with Germany. Aug.Gormans enter Liege." French invade southern Alsace.

Aug. 8,

Beutrality.

Italy reaffirme

Aug. 15.-Austriansenter Borvia. Japan sends ultimatum' to Germany.

Aug. 17.-British expeditionary

force completes its landing in France..

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Aug. 19-Beginning of battle of

Lorraine.

Aug. 20-Germana enter Brussels. 23-Germans enter Namar Ang.

and begin attack on Mons. Aug, 24-British begin retreat

from Mons.

Aug. 25— French evacuate Mal

hausen..

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Oct. 13-

Belgian Government transferred from Ostend to Havre,

Oct. 14-Allies occupy Ypres. Battle begins on the Vistula. Oct. 15-Ostend occupied by

the Germans.

Oct. 16-British cruiser Hawke

Aug. 26 Non-partisan French. Gabinet organised. Germans take Longwy. Aug. 27-Louvain burned by

Germans. Japanese block-Out. ade Tsingtau.

Aug. 28-Battle of Heligoland. Bej. 2-German advance reaches Senlis, thirty miles from Paris, and swings eastward. French Government moves to Bordeaux. Sept, 3-Kussians occupy Lem.

berg,

Sept. 5-Battle of the Marne

bėgino.

Sept. 7-Maubeuge taken by the

Germane,

Sept. 12-German retreat halts

i on the Aisne, Bept. 20-Germans bombard Rheimsend injurethe famous Cathedral.

submarine Sept. 22-German

Binks British oruisers Abou». kir, Cressy, and Hogue. Bassians capture Jaroslav and invent Przemyel. Sept. 28-British troops from India land at Marseilles. Rept. 28-Germans begin siege of

Antwerp.

Oct, 2-Germans defeated at

Augustowo,

Oot. 5-Belgian Government re moved from Antwerp to Ostend. Ool./--Bombardment of Antwerp

Bot. 9Antwerp.cccupied,

Ake Germans Ost 12

sunk by German submarine, 24-Ten days battle be- fore Warsaw ende in German defeat... Oct. 27 Russians

Lodz and Radom.

reoccupy

Hendon C A Hewett Hon. Mr E

A OMG Hodge W J Hunter R

Mr & Mrs FH Weill Mr & Mrs A White Mrs JB White Mr & Mra HLK Whittaker Mr & Mrs Wright Mr&Mrs

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Grand Hotel.

Allen Mr & Mrs Crow Mr & Mra Duurich A

in the Medway River. Ger- Dyer D

mane break through Russian circle near Ladz.

Gibb A W Grant J

Halvason James B

Pritchard Mr & Mrs

Reynolds O W Wright SH Zensarini R

Dec. 1-German Reichetag votee Jan.3-French capture Steinbach. new credit of five billion Jan. 3-4-Rassions win decisive marke. King George inf victory over Turks in the Flanders.

Caucasus, Russians overrun Bakovina

Dec. 2-Austrians occupy Bel-

grade. Gen. De Wet captar- Jan. 8-French advance across ed.

Aisne, north of Sissons.

Dec. 3-Servisne turn on Aus-Jan, 13-Turks occupy Tabriz,

trians in three days' battle

Count Berchtold resigne.

which ends in a notable Ser- Jan. 19-German air fleet bom- vian viotory.

barda Yarmouth and other Norfolk coast towns. Jas. 21, -General Falkenhayn, German War Minister, resigns.

Oct. 29-Turkey begins war on Doc, 6-Germans occupy Lodz,

Russia by naval attacks on Dec. 8-British naval victory off Odessa and in the Crimea.

Falkland Islands, British Oct. 30-Col. Maritz, rebol leader. Occupy Bussorab, in Asia

Minor.

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 near Yarmonth.

Nov. 4-German craieer Yorck

strikes mine in Jade Bay and sinks,

Nov. 5-England and France de- elare war on Turkey, Dar- danelles forte, bombarded. Russians reoccupy Jaroslav. Nov. 6-Tsingtan surrenders. Nov. Russians enter) East

Prussia.

Nov. 10--The Emden destroyed.

Dec; 9 - Gen. Byers, Boer leader, killed at the Vaal River.

Dec. 13-British pubmarine sinks the Messudish in Dardanelles. Dec. 14-Servians capture large

Austrian forces,

Dec. 15- Austriana evacuato Bel-

grade,

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Jan. 24-British naval victory in North Ass: the Blucher sunk: Jan, 28-Germans lose two bat-

talions at Givency and Cuin chy.

Jan. 31-Germany inaugurates submarine raids on British shipping.

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Feb. 3-German destroyer eunk

by Russian submarine "off }' Denmark, German auxiliary. andoraiser sunk off Patagonis.

Feb. 5-Turks attempt to oroBa

Suez Canal.

Doo, 16–German cruisera bom-

bard Scarborough Hartlepool.

Deo, 18-Egypt proclaimed a British protectorate. Gen. Botha regarde Boer rebellion da at an end,

Nov, 11-Germans capture Dix-Deb. 20-28-Severe fighting on

made,

the line of the Bzura River, Nov. 12-Russiane cocapy Johan- Dec. 22-French Parliament ae

nisburg in East Prussia.

sembles.

Feb. 6-Allied resolve is inite

financial resources. Feb. 8-Total British curaalties 104,000, Torka retreat from Suez Canal, Feb. 10-Germans execute the

rebel Maritz. -- Feb. 17 →Canadian contingent

lands in France.

Nov. 10- House of Commons| Dec. 23-French Chamber votes

votes a new army of 1,000,000 war credit of £340,000,000 men. More than 1,100,000 Dec. 25-British naval and serial Feb. 20-27-Over 10,000 Ger- men already under arma, ox-raid against Caxharen. ***r-olasive of Territorials:

mana surrender in France

Dec. 28 French occupy St. Feb. 27-Allied Fleet enters the

Nov. 23—Ruksiang surround Ger Georges, near Nisuport.

corpa south of Lods.

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Jan, 1, 1915 British battleship Formidable sunt in the Chandel

Dardanelled after destructive bombardment

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CONTENTS.

13 Are We Taking War.

Bariously Enough...37-38 Canton News

5

10-14-

Prince of Wales' Fand...34 ....34 Retiring Inspector Hon-

Humphreys Mr and Smith & M G Cargo for Europe...............

C

Smith

Mr&Mrs AF Squair Ara Vander Pol Mr&Mrs Humphrey Major Humphreys Mr.and Martin Mre

Wilkinson Mr & Mrs Mrs W G

Watson Mr & Mrs

Hind BA

Johns Mrs R

millions and a fresh credit. of 250 millions. March 8-British aeroplanes

sitook Ostend.

Mrch 9.-Second Canadian con-

tingent lands in England. March 3-10.-Four German sub-

marines accounted for.

March

10.-British capture

Neuve Chapelle. Burd

Chinese Decorations for

His Excellency and

two Police Officials.38

15-21 The Water Carriage 22-28 Satem................... .39-40 27-31, Cigarette and Tobacco 32-33 Fand

40 Import Manifesta... .............. 1, 40, The Sunsi

40 Contemporary Opinion 41 Land Officer's Report....42-43 Housing Civil Servants ...43 Legislativa Council ...,44-45 Prison Statistica 45-46 Telegrams

oured ..........................3 ± Hongkong Carrenoy ......35 Taikoo Rifle Club ........ 36-37 The Roll of Honour.....

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March 31-Australia ofera an

other contingent. April 6-His Majesty the King . forbids CODEumption of wines, spirits and beer in any of his hous88.

As the development of the dis- ease is very rapid he decided that vaccine was useless.. Taezafore, aft ir a number of experiments, be evolved a serum. He first tried it on guinea pigs, and found that, | applied within five hours after the March 14.-Announced that Ger- April 8.-Prinz Etel Friederich first appearance of the symptoms,

man losses in La Bassee region

internet in Norfolk Nivy it brought about a rapid cure, but Yord, U.S.A.

ceomed to lose its effect after ten boore. He next tried it on a whose condition rapidly became wounded man- bad case,

definitely better.

total 10,000 in three days.

March

14. German oruiser April 12.-Kron Prinz Wilhelm Dresden sunk off Juan Fer puta in at Newport New 'nandez Island.

Announced that second March 16.-Sir John French

Canadian contingent will be despatched in the near future.

estimates German losses in La Bassee region to be 17,000, March 18.-British battleshipa Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sank by dating mince in Dardanelles, Admiralty an nounces that it has reason to believe the Karlsruhe was Bunk cff the West Indies in November.

March 19.-Russiansenter Memel,

East Pramais! March 21.-Fatile Zeppelin raid

on Paris.

March 22. Przemysl surrenders

to the Russians,

A SERUM FOR GANGRENE.

Pasteur Institute Discovery.

M. Weinberg continues bis ex periments with a view to perfect- ing the serum, but considers that everything justiles the hope that science will soon o dispose of a genuine care for: the terrible malady. Arcangements will be | made to supply the Army Medical Service with all the serum it re- quires.

"A sorum, for which remarkable efficacy is claimed, both as pre-

ative of rentive and curative gaseous gangrene, has been discovered A large German force by M. Weinberg, a member of emall Scottish brigado ap Buccessful attack on the staff of the Pasteur Institute, ing How many are German submarine works at

Dr. Roux, president of that in them ? asked Hoboken

March 24-British airmen carry

March 25-German eat

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March 20

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