Oct. 15--Col. Brits's force captures eighty rebels under Col. Maritz; Gen. Botha takes field; prominent men arrested on charge of treason.
*NAVAL RECORD*.
July 26--British and French fleets ready for action; Servian vessels in Danube seized by Austrians; German fleet ordered concentrated in home waters; Italy masses fleet.
July 29 and 30--British fleet leaves Portland; British and German fleets in Far East mobilize.
July 31--German squadron stops merchant vessels in Danish waters; British warships near; Montenegrin King's yacht escapes Austrian destroyers.
Aug. 2--Fight between German and Russian cruisers off Libau; German High Sea Fleet seizes Wilson liner Castro and a collier; fleets assemble in Far East.
Aug. 3--Germans chase Norwegian food ship.
Aug. 4--Rival warships off Port of New York; British mine layer sunk by German fleet; British fleet will aim to destroy Kiel Canal.
Aug. 5--British third flotilla has battle with Germans in North Sea; cruiser Amphion damaged; German mine layer Koenigen Luise sunk; many German merchant ships seized by English, French, and Russians; Germans bombard Sveaborg, torpedo boat blown up.
Aug. 6--British cruiser Amphion sunk by mine; French capture German tank steamer; Germans capture Russian ship.
Aug. 7--British and German cruisers reported in fight off Brazilian coast; British steamers destroyed by mines off German and Turkish coasts; British capture German steamer Schlesien; German merchant ship captured by French; Germans capture Russian cruiser; Japanese warships off port of Tsing-tau; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau leave Genoa.
Aug. 8--Thirty-six German ships seized by Belgians; Russians capture Austrian and German merchant steamers; British capture German ship, said to be North German Lloyd liner; naval fight in Adriatic; interest in position of Goeben and Breslau; bombardment of Libau reported by ship Captain.
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.
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 Konigsberg 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.
Sept. 23--Russian cruiser Bayan sinks German cruiser and two torpedo boats; Germany says submarine U-9 sunk British ships unaided in North Sea fight yesterday; Austrian cruisers Maria Theresia and Admiral Staun damaged; trawler Kilmarnock sunk by mine.
Sept. 24--Two Austrian torpedo boats and one destroyer sunk by mines in the Adriatic; Norwegian steamer Hesvik sunk in North Sea; cruiser Emden bombards Madras; Anglo-French fleet again bombards Cattaro.
Sept. 25--Kronprinz Wilhelm sinks British steamer Indian Prince; British charge that Germans fired on Carmania after white flag was raised.