Dec. 18--British auxiliary cruiser Empress of Japan captures collier
Exford with forty of Emden's crew on board; Russian Black Sea fleet
sinks two Turkish ships.
Dec. 19--Russian warship Askold captures German steamer Haifa and sinks
a Turkish steamer; British warships shell German positions between
Nieuport and Middelkerke.
Dec. 20--Allied fleets bombard interior forts of the Dardanelles.
Dec. 21--British capture German steamers Baden and Santa Isabel.
Dec. 22--Allied fleets shell German positions along Belgian coast;
French destroyer shells Turkish troops; allied fleets shell Kilid Bahr.
Dec. 23--Russian destroyers in Black Sea bombard coast villages.
Dec. 24--French cruiser slightly damaged by Austrian torpedo; French
submarine sunk by shore batteries.
Dec. 26--British make naval and air attack on German fleet without
important results; French attack Austrian naval base at Pola on the
Adriatic.
Dec. 27--British cruisers, assisted by seaplanes, attack German naval
base at Cuxhaven; British claim to have done considerable damage.
Dec. 29--English coast towns expected American sympathy over German
raid; dread new raid, and hold navy was dilatory.
Dec. 30--French submarine torpedoes Austrian dreadnought Viribus Unitis,
but fails to sink her.
Dec. 31--Thirty French and British warships are bombarding Pola.
Jan. 1--British battleship Formidable torpedoed and sunk in English
Channel; 600 men lost.
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