New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915: April-September, 1915Various
History
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915: April-September, 1915
Various
World War, 1914-1918
Feb. 7--British expect Turks again to attack Suez Canal, and make plans
accordingly.
Feb. 8--Turks in Egypt are in full retreat; their losses in dead have
been heavy.
Feb. 13--British wipe out Turkish force at Tor.
Feb. 17--Work of Consul Paddock in saving British property at Tabriz is
praised in British House of Commons.
Feb. 22--Turks are massacring Armenians in Caucasus towns; Turks make
general retirement on Damascus.
Feb. 28--Turks have evacuated the Sinai Peninsula.
NAVAL RECORD--GENERAL.
Feb. 1--German submarine seen near Liverpool; there is a new theory that
infernal machines in coal caused blowing up of the Formidable and the
Bulwark.
Feb. 2--English shipping paper offers reward of $2,500 to first British
merchant vessel that sinks a German submarine; German submarine tries to
torpedo British hospital ship Asturias; men from a Swedish warship are
killed by a mine.
Feb. 3--German auxiliary is sunk by British cruiser Australia off
Patagonia; German destroyer reported sunk by Russians in the Baltic.
Feb. 4--British ships shell Germans at Westende.
Feb. 5--Germans deny that Russians sank a destroyer in the Baltic.
Feb. 7--Allied fleets menace the Dardanelles.
Feb. 9--Turkish cruiser bombards Yalta; Russians shell Trebizond.
Feb. 10--Germans are said to have sunk casks of petrol off the English
coast for use by their submarines; French Government, in report to
neutrals, denounces sinking of refugee ship Admiral Ganteaume.
Feb. 11--Cargo of American steamship Wilhelmina, bound for Hamburg, is
seized by British at Falmouth, and a prize court will pass upon question
whether food destined only for German civilians can go through in
neutral bottoms; it is generally understood that the Wilhelmina shipment
was made as a test case; German submarines, driven into Norwegian ports
by storm, are forced to put to sea again.
Feb. 13--Two British steamers long overdue are believed to have been
sunk by the Germans.
Feb. 14--Canada is guarding her ports more vigilantly; the Captain of
British steamer Laertes is decorated for saving his ship from a German
submarine by fast manoeuvring.
Feb. 15--British steamer Wavelet hits mine in English Channel and is
badly damaged; British submarines are in the Baltic; Austrian fleet
bombards Antivari.
Feb. 16--Captain of the German battle-cruiser Blücher dies from
pneumonia contracted when his ship went down in the North Sea fight;
British merchant collier Dulwich is torpedoed and sunk off French coast.
Feb. 17--French steamer Ville de Lille is sunk by German submarine.
Feb. 18--German auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm has sunk six British
ships off the coast of Brazil.
Feb. 20--Allied fleets are pounding the Dardanelles forts with great
effect; German steamer Holger interned at Buenos Aires.
Feb. 21--Berlin papers report that a British transport, loaded with
troops, has been sunk.
Feb. 22--Two German submarines are missing; Germans are building
submarines near Antwerp.
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