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The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 · Various — chapter 60 of 74 · ~391 words · public domain

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Dec. 6--Russian aviators attack Breslau forts; French aviators attack Freiburg.

Dec. 7--Major Gen. von Meyer killed by an arrow dropped by an aviator; Ostend set on fire by aeroplane bombs; ten killed at Hazebrouck by bomb dropped by German aviator.

Dec. 8--German airmen drop appeals to Indian troops to desert British.

Dec. 9--Aviator of Allies destroys Scheldt pontoon bridge at Antwerp; Belgian aviator destroys three German motor trucks and scatters cavalry detachment.

Dec. 12--German airman who dropped bombs on Hazebrouck killed by French shells.

Dec. 16--British and French aviators are making raids almost daily into German territory.

Dec. 18--French aviators drop bombs in Lorraine.

Dec. 19--Two German aviators stranded on a Danish island and interned in Denmark.

Dec. 20--German aeroplane drops bomb on Calais.

Dec. 21--Aviators of Allies drop bombs in Brussels and make night attack near Ostend.

Dec. 22--Deschamps, Belgian aviator, killed by his own bomb.

Dec. 24--German aeroplane, trying to reach Paris, is shot down; German aviator drops bomb in Dover.

Dec. 25--Two German aviators fly up the Thames, but are routed by British.

Dec. 26--Zeppelin drops bombs on Nancy; German aeroplanes make raid in Russian Poland; French aviators attack Metz.

Dec. 30--German airmen drop bombs in Dunkirk, killing fifteen; French aviators active in Flanders.

Jan. 1--German aeroplanes bombard Dunkirk.

Jan. 3--Austrian aviator drops bombs on Kielce.

Jan. 4--French aviators drop bombs near Brussels.

AMERICAN INTERESTS.

Oct. 30--Slight damage to American property in bombardment of Odessa.

Oct. 31--American Refugee Society formed in the United States.

Nov. 10--Henry Field, grandson of the late Marshall Field, is serving as a British Army chauffeur.

Nov. 13--British authorities demand that Americans show passports on embarking for home.

Nov. 19--American Consulate in Berlin takes charge of the work of finding American baggage in Germany.

Nov. 25--Rush for new passports by Americans in London.

Nov. 28--American Ambassador to Turkey says American missionaries are not being molested.

Dec. 28--American Government sends memorandum to British Government through Ambassador Page vigorously protesting against interference with American commerce by British warships; American Relief Committee in London still busy, and renews lease of its offices.

Dec. 31--Full text of American note on British interference with American trade is given out in full simultaneously at Washington and London; the war has cost the United States $382,000,000 in decreased exports up to Dec. 1, according to statement issued by Department of Commerce.

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