9 August

1914

 * Belgium: French cavalry in Belgium.
 * East Prussia: Russian First Army advancing.
 * No HMS Birmingham, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
 * Germany, by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.

1915

 * Zeppelin air raid on Goole, East Riding and Dover begins. One airship is destroyed at Dunkirk.
 * British recapture trenches at Hooge. French air-raid on Saarbrücken.
 * Osovyets evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on Kovna fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of Warsaw.
 * Heavy Anzac losses; Turks getting stronger.
 * Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at Olti and Passin (Armenia) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from Van migrate into Transcaucasia.
 * No Gadji (Cameroons) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. HMS Lynx, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa torpedoed by British submarine.
 * Italian Consuls throughout Turkey preparing to leave.