Aug. 27--British cruiser Highflyer sinks Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse; British marines occupy Ostend; German cruiser Magdeburg sunk in Gulf of Finland; mines in North Sea sink a Danish and a Norwegian steamer; Japanese bombard island near Kiao-Chau and blockade port. Aug. 28--British fleet sinks two German cruisers, sets fire to third, and sinks two torpedo boats off Heligoland; Germans fire at Japanese fleet near Kiao-Chau; Austrian destroyer sunk by British off Corfu; British cruiser Welland sinks German torpedo destroyer; other German ships captured; six vessels blown up in North Sea by mines; Russians capture crew of German cruiser Magdeburg. Aug. 29--Port of Cape Jaeschke blocked by Japanese warships; passenger steamer destroyed by mines near Russian port. Aug. 30--British official account of battle off Heligoland; New Zealand expeditionary force captures Apia. Aug. 31--German gunboat shells abandoned Japanese destroyer at Kiao-Chau. Sept. 2--British and French ships again bombard Cattaro; steam drifter Eyrie sunk by mine in North Sea. Sept. 4--British cruiser sinks Austrian steamer Bathori in Bay of Biscay; British gunboat Speedy sunk by mine in North Sea; British steamship Bowes Castle sunk by German cruiser off St. Lucia. Sept. 5--German ships sink fifteen British trawlers in North Sea. Sept. 6--Cruiser Pathfinder destroyed by mine. Sept. 7--British submarine strikes German warships in Bremerhaven Harbor. Sept. 10--British capture German, collier. Sept. 11--Germans destroy Russian steamer Uleaborg. Sept. 12--Australian Navy occupies Herbertshoehe in Bismarck Archipelago; British take German coal ship Heinze. Sept. 14--Germans capture Fanning Island and cable station; German cruiser Hela sunk. Sept. 17--German fleets fire on each other in Baltic by mistake; British cruiser seizes Holland-America, liner Ryndam: French cruiser Conde captures German storeship Helna; Canadian Pacific liner made a British cruiser in Pacific; German cruiser Luxemburg reported to have sunk three British freighters in West Indies. Sept. 19--Australian submarine AE-1 lost; Austrian warship Viribus Unitis damaged in Adriatic. Sept. 20--Carmania sinks German merchant cruiser Cap Trafalgar; German cruiser Koenigsberg disables British cruiser Pegasus; fighting between British and German ships in Kamerun River, Africa; six British ships captured by German cruiser Emden; damaged Russian warships arrive at Helsingfors; Austrian torpedo boat 27 sunk at Pola; German cruiser Stettin fights British warships. Sept. 21--British steamer Clan Matheson sunk by German cruiser Emden; crews of six captured vessels landed in India. Sept. 22--British cruiser Berwick captures Hamburg-American liner Spreewald and two German colliers; German submarine U-9 sinks British cruisers Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue in North Sea; British steamer Belgian King sunk near Cape Kureli.