15 August

1914

 * - Belgium: Reduction of forts at Liège completed; Germans checked at Dinant by the French.
 * Alsace-Lorraine: Passes of the Vosges in French hands.
 * No - South Africa: Meeting of disaffected Boers: Address by General Delarey.
 * - Japan: Ultimatum to Germany demanding evacuation of Tsing-tau (Kiao-Chau).

1915

 * - Violent bombardment on Yser front.
 * - 1,730 Russians taken prisoners outside Kovna. Losice, Biala, and Mazyrecze (west of Brest) captured; enemy crosses Bug east of Droghiczyn.
 * Russian line broken at Bransk (on Nurzec), 5,000 prisoners taken.
 * - Venice bombarded by seaplane.
 * - National Register taken. Cholera in Hungary. Striking exposure of German intrigues in New York World.