Jan. 31--Kaiser directs German assault on La Bassee; zouaves and Indians win the Great Dune west of Lombaertzyde. CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA. Jan. 9--French win in Kamerun. Jan. 15--British take Swakopmund. CAMPAIGN IN ASIA MINOR AND EGYPT. Jan. 9--Turks hasten construction of railway lines across Sinai peninsula. Jan. 10--Turks are marching on Egypt; reserve Turkish army, trying to save Erzerum, repulsed at frontier. Jan. 12--Erzerum road is being fought for; Noury Bey captured by Russians. Jan. 13--Turks occupy Tabriz and report Arab victory over British troops on the lower Tigris. Jan. 14--Armenian refugees cross Russian frontier; Turkish invasion of Persia continues. Jan. 15--Turks advance in Persia. Jan. 17--Turkish corps cut to pieces in the Caucasus. Jan. 18--Turkish soldiers are being frozen to death. Jan. 21--Turks are pushing plans for a strategic railway to the Egyptian frontier. Jan. 24--Russians check Turkish advance on Erzerum. Jan. 27--British defeat Turkish advance guard toward El Kantara on the Suez Canal; three Turkish army corps now marching on Egypt; British win at Korna. Jan. 28--Turks, reinforced, attack Russians in the Caucasus. Jan. 29--Turks fortify Erzerum, and order civilians to depart. Jan. 30--Russians take Tabriz. Jan. 31--Turks defeated near Sari-Kamysh. NAVAL RECORD. Jan. 11--Report from Vienna that French dreadnought Courbet has been sunk. Jan. 12--Japanese cruisers are hunting the German converted cruiser Prince Eitel Friedrich off the coast of Peru. Jan. 13--Dover forts drive off two German submarines; bombardment of the Dardanelles by the allied fleets continues. Jan. 16--French submarine Saphir sunk by Turkish mine at the Dardanelles; Italian gunboat Coatit damaged in the Adriatic. Jan. 20--Dutch naval patrol boat sunk by a mine, five men being lost. Jan. 21--German cruiser Karlsruhe reported off Porto Rico. Jan. 22--German submarine U-19 sinks British freighter Durward. Jan. 23--German supply ship sunk by Australian cruiser. Jan. 24--British patrolling squadron under Vice Admiral Beatty defeats German squadron attempting to reach English coast; German battle cruiser Bluecher sunk and two other German battle cruisers damaged; British battle cruisers Lion and Tiger damaged; Germans claim three British ships were sunk. Jan. 28--British Admiralty denies that any British ship was sunk. Jan. 30--German submarine sinks three British steamers in Irish Channel and chases Liverpool passenger boat. Jan. 31--German submarine sinks two British steamers in English Channel; third steamer escapes. AERIAL RECORD. Jan. 10--German aeroplanes threw thirty bombs on Dunkirk, damaging several houses; Belgian aviators give battle to the Germans at great altitude and finally drive them off; German aviator shot down by French near Amiens. Jan. 16--German hydroaeroplane lost in North Sea; nine aviators of the Allies drop bombs on Ostend.