Nov. 30--British ships again bombard Zeebrugge.
Dec. 3--Danish steamer Mary blown up by mine in North Sea, six men
dying.
Dec. 6--Forty British and French war vessels are off the Dardanelles.
Dec. 7--British steamer Charcas sunk by German transport in the Pacific;
Swedish ships Luna and Everilda sunk by mines.
Dec. 8--British squadron under Vice Admiral Sturdee defeats German
squadron under Admiral von Spee off the Falkland Islands; German
flagship Scharnhorst and the cruisers Gneisenau, Leipzig, and Nurnberg
are sunk; the British casualties are slight.
Dec. 9--Three German merchantmen sunk in South Atlantic; Gulf of Bothnia
closed because of mines.
Dec. 10--German submarine raid on Dover repulsed by the forts; Turkish
gunboat sunk by defense mine.
Dec. 12--Turkish fleet bombards Batum.
Dec. 14--British submarine B-11, by diving under five rows of mines,
sinks Turkish battleship Messudieh in the Dardanelles.
Dec. 15--German cruiser Cormorant interned at Guam; Turks bombard
Sevastopol.
Dec. 16--German warships shell the English coast towns of Scarborough,
Hartlepool, and Whitby; about 120 persons are killed and 550 wounded;
British warships shell Westende.
Dec. 17--Austrian training ship Beethoven sunk by mine; British squadron
bombards Turkish troops on Gulf of Saros; Russians sink German steamship
Derentie off Turkish coast; Norwegian ship Vaaren sunk by mine in North
Sea; three British ships sunk by mines.
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