—Madras shelled by the German cruiser Emden; little damage.
24. An attempt was made to wreck the up Folkestone boat express train at Hither Green; no harm was done.
—First Indian troops landed at Marseilles.
26. At Cambridge, the Rev. Edmund Courtenay Pearce, M.A., Fellow and Dean of Corpus Christi College, was elected Master of the College, vice Colonel R. T. Caldwell, LL.D., deceased.
27. First bombs dropped on Paris by a German aeroplane; an elderly gentleman was killed and a little girl badly wounded.
—The Albanian Senate proclaimed Prince Burhan-ed-Din, a son of Abdul Hamid, ruler of the Principality.
28. Announcement of the surrender of Duala (Cameroons) to an Anglo-French force.
29. Announcement that four British ships had been sunk by the German cruiser Emden in the Indian Ocean, and a fifth, the collier Buresk, captured.
OCTOBER.
1. Announcement that the Rev. Canon George Wilfrid Blenkin, Vicar of Hitchin and sometime Fellow and Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge, was appointed Dean of St. Albans, vice the Very Rev. Walter J. Lawrance, D.D., deceased.