Part 72

Oct. 4--Anglo-French fleet bombards Cattaro and destroys Lustica; Dutch steamer Nieuwland sunk by mine in North Sea; Rear Admiral Troubridge recalled from Mediterranean to London to explain escape of German cruisers Goeben and Breslau.

Oct. 5--Japanese capture Jaluit Island; British grain ship sunk by mine near Dover; Japanese shells hit German gunboat Iltis in Tsing-tau Harbor.

Oct. 6--French lay mines in Adriatic to offset similar action by Austrians.

Oct. 7--British submarine sinks German destroyer off mouth of River Ems; six Austrian torpedo craft reported sunk by mines in the Adriatic; British trawler blown up in the North Sea.

Oct. 9--It is announced that thirty-two German merchant ships were destroyed at Antwerp.

Oct. 10--Japanese warships silence Iltis forts.

Oct. 11--French fleet sinks two Austrian torpedo boats.

Oct. 12--German submarine sinks Russian cruiser Pallada.

Oct. 13--Russians claim that Germans lost two submarines in attack on Pallada.

Oct. 14--Report denied by Germans.

Oct. 15--British cruiser Yarmouth sinks German liner Markomannia.

*AERIAL RECORD.*

Aug. 2--Report that French aviators have dropped bombs on Nuernberg; German troops shoot down French aeroplanes near Wesel; report that Garros, French aviator, wrecked German airship at Longwy; French aeroplanes dispatched toward Nancy.

Aug. 3--German airships fly over Belgium.

Aug. 5--Duel between Belgian and German aviators; Austrians report destruction of Russian aeroplane.

Aug. 13--German aeroplane pursued by Belgians; German aviator throws bomb on Vesoul.

Aug. 15--Harmless bombs thrown by German aviators on Vesoul and Lure; French aviators throw bombs on Zeppelins in Metz; five men wounded in Namur by bombs thrown from German aeroplanes.

Aug. 18--Three Zeppelins wrecked by gunfire, one by fall; German monoplane drops bombs on Luneville; German aeroplane destroyed near Samno, Russia.

Aug. 19--German monoplane captured in Belgium.

Aug. 20--Pegoud's airship destroyed in flight to drop bombs in Germany; Dutch capture German aeroplanes.

Aug. 23--French destroy Zeppelin.

Aug. 24--France believes five German Zeppelins are out of action.

Aug. 25--Zeppelin bombs fall in Antwerp.

Aug. 29--Russians bring down Zeppelin.

Aug. 30--German aeroplane drops bombs on Paris; French Embassy in Washington denies that aeroplanes bombarded Nuernberg.

Aug. 31--German aeroplane drops bombs on Paris.

Sept. 1--German aeroplane drops bombs on Paris.

Sept. 2--Fight between French and German aeroplanes; Zeppelin renews attack on Antwerp.