Part 59

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.

Jan. 4--Official Press Bureau at Berlin announces that the Formidable was sunk by a submarine off Plymouth; British ships shell Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.

Jan. 6--Turkish cruiser Goeben damaged by mines.

Jan. 7--Germans state that Austrian submarines are holding back French fleet in the Adriatic.

AERIAL RECORD.

Oct. 23--German Taube brought down in Dunkirk; Reymond, French aviator, killed near Verdun; German aviators drop bombs on Warsaw.

Oct. 24--Zeppelins harry fighters southwest of Ostend.

Oct. 25--Five German aeroplanes destroyed by French.

Oct. 27--New Zeppelin flies northward from Friedrichshafen; new British gun is effective against airmen.

Oct. 29--German airmen drop bombs on Bethune, nineteen women being killed; British airman chases bomb-dropping Taube at Hazebrouck.

Oct. 30--French airmen rain bombs on German officers near Dunkirk.

Nov. 3--German airman drops bombs on Furnes; three German aeroplanes brought down near Souain; British airman drops bombs in Thielt.

Nov. 6--Austrian airmen drop bombs on Antivari.

Nov. 13--Russian cavalry captures two German aviators near Plock.

Nov. 14--Austrian aeroplane drops bombs on Antivari.

Nov. 15--Prince Danilo's villa in Antivari wrecked by aeroplane bomb.

Nov. 21--French and British aeroplanes drop bombs on Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen; one French airman shot down.

Nov. 24--Aeroplane bomb dropped in Warsaw street kills several people and narrowly misses American Consulate; airmen are using steel arrows to drop from aeroplanes.

Nov. 26--British aviator wrecks German military train.

Nov. 29--German aviators drop bombs on Lodz; French aviators drop circulars inviting German soldiers to desert.

Dec. 5--Aeroplane bombs dropped near Baden.