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Great War events that took place on 9 August.

1914 (Sunday)

Western Front	French cavalry in Belgium.
Eastern Front	East Prussia: Russian First Army advancing.
Naval and Overseas Operations	HMS Birmingham, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
Political	Germany, by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.

1915 (Monday)

Western Front	▶  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.
Eastern Front	▶  Osovyets evacuated and destroyed by Russians.	▶  Night attack on Kovna fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack.	▶  Germans advance east of Warsaw.
Southern Front	Heavy Anzac losses; Turks getting stronger.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres	▶  Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened.	▶  Turkish attacks at Olti and Passin (Armenia) repulsed.	▶  255,000 Armenians from Van migrate into Transcaucasia.
Naval and Overseas Operations	▶  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.
Political	Italian Consuls throughout Turkey preparing to leave.

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