3. United States elections; large Republican gains.
4. The German cruiser Yorck struck a mine (or was sunk by a British submarine) off Jahde Bay and sank; about half the crew drowned.
5. British declaration of war with Turkey; Cyprus annexed to Great Britain by Order in Council.
—Military execution in the Tower of Karl Lody, convicted of espionage by court-martial, November 2.
—The Earl of Annesley and Flight-Lieutenant C. Beevor, R.N., shot down near Ostend while crossing in an aeroplane from Eastchurch to France.
6. At Edinburgh, William Drummond Dick, recently a coal importer at Berlin, sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attempting to sell coal to Germany.
7. Surrender of Tsingtau. (See For. Hist., Chap. VI.)
—Admiralty announcement of the occupation of Fao, at the mouth of the Shatt-el-Arab. (See For. Hist., Chap. V.)
9. Ministers at the Guildhall. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. V.)
—The Lord Mayor's Show included contingents from the Canadian, Newfoundland, and New Zealand troops, and also from the Honourable Artillery Company, the London Scottish, and other London Territorial Regiments, and the Officers' Training Corps of the City of London School.