1. The Dresden escapes.
14.--Austrians evacuate Belgrade.
16.--German squadron bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby on east
coast of England.
23.--Siege of Cracow raised. Russians retire.
1915
January
24.--British fleet puts to flight a German squadron in North Sea and
sinks the battle cruiser Blucher.
28.--American bark, William P. Frye, sunk by German cruiser in South
Atlantic.
February
10.--Russians defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes.
18.--German submarine "blockade" of British Isles begins.
25.--Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles.
March
2.--Allied troops land at Kum-Kale, on Asiatic side of Dardanelles.
10.--British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle.
14.--Dresden, German raiding cruiser, is sunk by British squadron off
the Chilean coast.
22.--Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians.
April
22.--Poison gas first used by Germans in attack on Canadians at Ypres,
Belgium.
May
1.--American steamer Gulflight torpedoed off Scilly Isles by German
submarine; 3 lives lost.
2.--British South Africa troops under General Botha capture Otymbingue,
German Southwest Africa.
7.--Germans capture Libau, Russian Baltic port.
7.--Lusitania, Cunard liner, sunk by German submarine off Kinsale Head,
Irish coast, with loss of 1152 lives; 102 Americans.
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