Nov. 26--Turkish advance checked in Armenia.
Nov. 28--Fierce fighting in the Caucasus; Enver Bey starts for Egypt.
Dec. 6--Turks occupy Keda.
Dec. 8--Turks defeated near Batum.
Dec. 9--Turks at Kurna surrender to Indian troops.
Dec. 10--British take 1,100 Turkish prisoners and nine guns.
Dec. 11--Sheik Kiazim, Chief of the Shiites, proclaims a holy war; Turks report occupation of Geda.
Dec. 15--Senussi tribesmen threaten Egypt.
Dec. 18--Turks reinforced in Asia Minor.
Dec. 20--Turks gain near Lake Urumiah.
Dec. 21--Russians win in Armenia--Turks lose equipment.
Dec. 22--Arabs menace Christians in Hodeida; French Consul is seized.
Dec. 23--Turkish Army leaves Damascus and marches toward Suez Canal.
Dec. 25--Russo-Turkish operations stopped by cold.
Jan. 1--Turks invade Russia but fail to envelop Russian forces.
Jan. 2--Turks penetrate into the Russian Caucasus and occupy Ardahan.
Jan. 4--Turks ravage Persian territory.
Jan. 5--Russians rout Turkish columns at Ardahan and Sari-Kamysh; Russians capture Izzet Pasha.
Jan. 7--Turks occupy Urumiah.
NAVAL RECORD.
Oct. 16--British cruiser Hawke sunk by German submarine U-9; British tramp steamship Induna sunk by Germans; British steamer Guendolen fires on German ship on Lake Nyassa; British and Japanese warships bombard fort near Tsing-tau.
Oct. 17--British squadron, led by the Undaunted, sinks four German torpedo-boat destroyers off Dutch coast; allied fleets bombard Cattaro.
Oct. 19--British battleship Triumph damaged at Tsing-tau; Japanese cruiser Takachiho sunk by German submarine S-90 in Kiao-Chau Bay; British fleet helps to repel German land attacks between Nieuport and Dixmude; Austrian submarine sunk in Adriatic by French cruiser.
Oct. 20--German warships sink British submarine E-3; British gunboats fight German submarines and coast batteries; Japanese fleet takes islands of Marianne group; two German ships sunk at Jaluit; British steamer Giltera sunk by German submarine off Norwegian coast.
Oct. 21--British monitors Severn and Mersey shell German right flank; Cattaro again bombarded by French fleet, attack of Austrian submarines being repulsed; German cruiser Emden sinks five British steamships and captures a sixth in Indian Ocean; British steamer Cormorant sunk.
Oct. 22--British torpedo boat damaged by German artillery fire off Nieuport; French ships aid British in bombardment near Ostend; British auxiliary cruiser Carmania damaged.
Oct. 23--Allies' squadrons seeking German cruisers Emden and Karlsruhe; Emden's activity is having a bad effect on Indian shipping; French ships aid British in shelling Belgian coast towns.
Oct. 24--British destroyer Badger sinks German submarine; Ostend bombarded by French warships.
Oct. 25--Japanese sink German cruiser Aeolius off Honolulu.
Oct. 26--Vessel containing French and Belgian refugees sunk near Calais, probably by a mine, the passengers being rescued by a British ship; Germans claim that the British ships have been driven back from the Belgian coast.
Oct. 27--Germans lay mines off Irish coast; British freighter Manchester Commerce sunk; Germany demands that China release shipwrecked sailors of submarine S-90, which was destroyed by the Germans when being pursued by Japanese.
Oct. 28--Emden sinks Japanese steamer; Japanese cruiser Chitose repulses attack by two German warships.
Oct. 29--Emden, flying the Japanese flag, enters Penang Harbor and sinks Russian cruiser Jemtchug and a French destroyer; Turkish warships shell Theodosia and sink two Russian steamers; British vessels slightly damaged off Belgian coast, with ten men killed; Swedish steamer Ornen and two British fishing boats sunk by mine in North Sea; British sink German steamer in the Adriatic.
Oct. 30--Russian and Turkish fleets in battle in the Black Sea; Turkish torpedo boats bombard Odessa, sinking Russian gunboat Donets, three Russian liners, and French steamer Portugal.
Oct. 31--Japanese and British warships attack Tsing-tau; German submarine sinks British cruiser Hermes in Strait of Dover; Turkish cruiser bombards Sevastopol; Russian fleet attacks Turkish fleet near Sevastopol.
Nov. 1--German squadron under Admiral von Spee defeats British squadron under Rear Admiral Cradock off Coronel, Chile; British flagship Good Hope and the cruiser Monmouth go down with all on board: Germans suffer but slightly; shelling of Allied fleets sets fire to Tsing-tau.
Nov. 2--Turkish (formerly German) cruiser Goeben damaged by fire from Russian forts; British ship scuttled in Black Sea; Turkish commander sinks his ship to prevent capture; Germans blockade coast of Asiatic Turkey with mines; Karlsruhe captures British steamers Vandyck, Hurtsdale, and Glanton.
Nov. 3--Anglo-French squadron bombards the Dardanelles forts; British cruiser Minerva bombards Akabah, Arabia, and sailors occupy the town; British submarine D-5 sunk by mine in North Sea.
Nov. 4--Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth sunk by Germans to prevent seizure; Anglo-French fleet continues bombardment of Dardanelles forts; German warships seen off coast of England; German cruiser Yorck sunk by mine in Jade Bay.
Nov. 5--British tow German sailing ship into Queenstown, the Captain not having heard of the war; British mine sweeper Mary sunk in North Sea.
Nov. 6--British ships shell Belgian coast; Turks bombard Batum; British warship damaged while shelling Dardanelles forts.
Nov. 7--Japanese squadron searches for German squadron in the Pacific; Russians bombard Turkish Black Sea ports.
Nov. 8--Russians report sinking of four Turkish transports; Turks sink Greek steamer carrying British flag; two Dardanelles forts destroyed by bombardment.
Nov. 9--Emden escapes British warship, but loses her store ships; Russians bombard Bosporus ports; Swedish steamer Ate blown up by mine.
Nov. 10--Australian cruiser Sydney wrecks German cruiser Emden, which had destroyed more than $5,000,000 worth of British shipping; war risks drop in consequence; British Admiralty reports that the German cruiser Koenigsberg has been bottled up in the Rufiji River, German East Africa.
Nov. 11--British torpedo boat Niger sunk by German submarine; Japanese torpedo boat sunk by mine in Kiao-Chau Bay.
Nov. 12--Turkish torpedo boat captured by Allies; Turkish cruiser Goeben crippled by shell.
Nov. 14--News comes to America by mail of the sinking of the British super-dreadnought Audacious on Oct. 27 off the Irish coast; apparently done by a mine.
Nov. 15--Many mines picked up by Dutch coast guards; mine layer flying Norwegian flag and manned by German sailors captured at Belfast; British cruiser Edinburgh aids in capture of Turba, Arabia, by Indian troops.