Part 40 (1/2)

Nov. 16--Mine cast up by sea kills seven in Holland.

Nov. 17--Swedish steamer Andrew sunk by mine in North Sea; German squadron bombards Libau; Russian Black Sea fleet attacks Trebizond; German cruiser Berlin interns at Trondhjem to escape enemy.

Nov. 19--British naval guns bombard Dixmude; French cruiser Waldeck Rousseau sinks Austrian submarine.

Nov. 20--Austrian steamer Metkovitch sunk by mine off Dalmatian coast.

Nov. 21--The Goeben badly damaged in Black Sea.

Nov. 22--Turkish wars.h.i.+ps sh.e.l.l Taupse, but are repulsed by Russian land batteries.

Nov. 23--British wars.h.i.+p Patrol rams German submarine U-18 and captures crew off coast of Scotland; German destroyer S-124 wrecked in collision with Danish steamer.

Nov. 24--French bark Valentine sunk by Germans near Island of Mas a Fuera; British s.h.i.+ps attack German naval base at Zeebrugge.

Nov. 25--British steamer Malachite sunk by German submarine near Havre.

Nov. 26--British battles.h.i.+p Bulwark blown up in the Thames; magazine explosion is the accepted theory, but there is some suspicion that it was the work of spies; Turkish mine layer sunk in the Bosphorus; cruiser Goeben is being repaired.

Nov. 27--British collier Khartoum blown up by mine off Grimsby.

Nov. 28--Norwegian and Danish trawlers seized by the British for laying mines while using English port as base; British fishermen sweep coast waters for mines.

Nov. 30--British s.h.i.+ps 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 s.h.i.+ps Luna and Everilda sunk by mines.

Dec. 8--British squadron under Vice Admiral St.u.r.dee defeats German squadron under Admiral von Spee off the Falkland Islands; German flags.h.i.+p 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 battles.h.i.+p Messudieh in the Dardanelles.

Dec. 15--German cruiser Cormorant interned at Guam; Turks bombard Sevastopol.

Dec. 16--German wars.h.i.+ps sh.e.l.l the English coast towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby; about 120 persons are killed and 550 wounded; British wars.h.i.+ps sh.e.l.l Westende.

Dec. 17--Austrian training s.h.i.+p Beethoven sunk by mine; British squadron bombards Turkish troops on Gulf of Saros; Russians sink German steams.h.i.+p Derentie off Turkish coast; Norwegian s.h.i.+p Vaaren sunk by mine in North Sea; three British s.h.i.+ps sunk by mines.

Dec. 18--British auxiliary cruiser Empress of j.a.pan captures collier Exford with forty of Emden's crew on board; Russian Black Sea fleet sinks two Turkish s.h.i.+ps.

Dec. 19--Russian wars.h.i.+p Askold captures German steamer Haifa and sinks a Turkish steamer; British wars.h.i.+ps sh.e.l.l German positions between Nieuport and Middelkerke.