Aug. 9--British sink German submarine; cruiser Essex takes ship at sea; Goeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles; two German steamers taken at Rouen and one at Colombo; England and France protest against German steamer Karlsruhe coaling at Porto Rico; firing off Shanghai; British fleet proceeds to Tsing-tau; Austrian cruisers bombard Antivari. Aug. 10--Cruiser Birmingham sinks German submarine U-15; British close North Sea to fishing fleets; Dutch steamer sunk in Baltic; Belgians seize two Austrian steamers; English and Canadian steamers hunt in Atlantic for German cruisers. Aug. 11--Battle in the Adriatic; Russians capture twenty German merchant vessels in Baltic. Aug. 12--German destroyer sunk by mine off South Gedser. Aug. 13--German cruisers bombard Windau; France will check Austria's navy; British said to have bottled up German Far Eastern squadron; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau are flying Turkish flag. Aug. 15--Japanese Navy sails to join British fleet; Triple Entente demands that Turkey repatriate crews of German cruisers; Austrian liner blown up by mine in the Adriatic; British capture Austrian liner Marienbad; German steamer W.W. Schneefels brought to Gibraltar as war prize. Aug. 16--French fleet said to have sunk two Austrian ships in the Adriatic. Aug. 17--German dreadnought said to be damaged in Norwegian port; French sink Austrian cruiser in the Adriatic; German cruiser Karlsruhe said to have sunk four British merchantmen; British cruisers capture Hamburg-American liners Cap Ortegal and Santa Catharina. Aug. 18--Two German cruisers captured and taken to Hongkong; fight between British and German patrol fleets. Aug. 20--British steamer Hostilius captured by German cruiser Dresden; German fleet said to have shelled three Russian ports. Aug. 21--British and French warships and Montenegrin batteries bombard Cattaro; two German Hansa liners seized at Bombay and Hamburg-American ship at Rangoon. Aug. 22--Steamers Maryland and Broberg sunk by mines in North Sea; two Dutch steamers reported sunk; German cruiser Dresden sinks British steamer Hyades; British cruiser Glasgow captures German ship Santa Kathina; French capture German four-master and Austrian steamer; account made public of sinking of Austrian battleship Zrinyi. Aug. 23--Anglo-French fleets destroy Austrian cruiser Zenta and bombard Cattaro; Dutch steamer Alcor blown up by Russians to block Hango harbor; report that French, English, and Russian vessels are aiding Japan to blockade Kiao-Chau. Aug. 24--Japanese fleet has begun bombardment of Tsing-tau; Cattaro badly damaged by British and French fleets. Aug. 25--German steamer Elizabeth sunk. Aug. 26--British defeated in battle with German torpedo boat off Kiao-Chau.