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==[[1914]] (Wednesday)==
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===Western Front===▼
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*British forces withdraw to Chantilly-Nanteuil.▼
*[[Malines]] bombarded by the Germans.▼
===Eastern Front===▼
*[[Galicia]]: Battle of [[Lemberg]] ends: rout of Austrians, who lose 130,000 men.▼
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*[[Poland]]: Austrian advance checked at [[Lyublin]].▼
===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===▼
*[[Tsing-tau]]: Japanese [[troops]] landed for the attack on the fortress.▼
===Political===▼
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*[[France]]: The government leaves [[Paris]] for Bordeaux.▼
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==[[1915]] (Thursday)==
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|'''Eastern Front'''
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|{{tb}} The fall of [[Grodno]].
|{{tb}} [[Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli|Boehm-Ermolli]] advances east of [[Brody]].
|{{tb}} Russians retreat to the [[Sereth|Sereth River]].
|{{tb}} Fierce fighting near [[Vilna]]
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|'''Southern Front'''
|{{tb}} Unsuccessful assault by the Italians on the bridgehead of [[Tolmino]].
|{{tb}} British Submarines sink four Turkish transports off (Bay of) [[Bay of Akbachi Sliman (Gallipoli)|Akbachi Sliman]] and [[Nagara]] ([[Gallipoli]]).
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|'''Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres'''
|{{tb}} German intrigues in [[Persia]].
|{{tb}} Mr. T. G. Graham, British Consul-Gen. at [[Ispahan]], is attacked and wounded.
|{{tb}} Final scattering of [[Bunerwals]] on the North West Frontier ([[India]]).
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|'''Naval and Overseas Operations'''
|British transport ''Southland'' is torpedoed in the [[Aegean Sea]].
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|'''Political'''
|{{tb}} General Polivanov is appointed Prime Minister in [[Russia]].
|{{tb}} American press publishes peace terms now being propagated by Germany.<ref group="lower-alpha">Include preposterous demands for the cession of the Belgian Congo and French African Colonies, as "compensation" for evacuation of [[Belgium]] and Northern [[France]]. [[Serbia]] to be divided up, [[Poland]] given independence as a "buffer" state. Stock item of "the freedom of the seas" not omitted.</ref>
|{{tb}} Scandinavian groups of Inter-parliamentary Union meet at [[Copenhagen]].<ref group="lower-alpha">President stated Scandinavia united in keeping compact of an honourable neutrality, and had no ambitious plans.</ref>
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