The Year 1915 Illustrated/Diary of the War, August 1915

From The Great War 1914-1918
DIARY OF THE WAR

AUGUST, 1915
General Joffre, distinguished Commander of the French Armies
Aug 01 British recover trenches near Hooge. – Mitau in the Baltic provinces occupied by the Germans.
 "  03 End of first year of the war.
 "  04 Fall of Warsaw. – Italian successes on the Carso.
 "  05 Fall of Ivangorod.
 "  06 New landing of Allies at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli.
 "  08 Russian Naval successes in Gulf if Riga.
 "  09 British success north and west of Hooge.
 "  10 Progress reported in Gallipoli; position at Anzac consolidated, and area held "nearly trebled."
 "  11 Germans advance east of Warsaw.
 "  12 Russian success in Baltic provinces; Germans driven beyond the River Aa.
 "  14 British transport Royal Edward sunk with loss of 1,000 lives.
 "  15 Allies advanced 500 yards at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. – Germans break Russian line at Bransk. – National Register Day.
 "  17 Fall of Kovno. – Von Mackensen astride Cholen–Brest Litovsk railway.
 "  18 Russian naval victory in Gulf of Riga.
 "  19 Fall of Novo Georgievsk. – British Liner Arabic sunk by submarine.
 "  20 Italy declared war on Turkey.
 "  21 M. Venezelos accepted Greek Premiership. – Cotton declared contraband by British Government.
 "  22 Osovietz occupied by Germans. – French success in the Vosges.
 "  23 Zeebrugge bombarded by Allied Fleet.
 "  24 Germans across the Narew.
 "  25 Fall of Brest-Litovsk.
 "  27 Austro-Germans broke through the Zlota Lipa positions north and south of Brzezany.
 "  28 Further advance at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli.
 "  29 Germans stormed Lipsk and progressed east of Kovno towards Vilna.
 "  30 Russian success on the Strypa in East Galicia, 3,000 prisoners, 30 guns and 24 machine guns captured.
 "  31 Further Russian successes in direction of Luck; over 7,000 prisoners taken.


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