A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Colchester is captured by German small craft and taken to Zeebrugge.

Sept. 23 (Sat.)

A Zeppelin raid on England: two Zeppelins are brought down in Essex, the L 32 and L 33.

Sept. 25 (Mon.)

Greece:—M. Venizelos leaves the Piræus for Crete, where he proclaims a Provisional Government four days later.

The Somme Front:—Morval and Les Bœufs are captured by the British; Rancourt and Fregicourt are taken by the French.

A Zeppelin raid on England.

Sept. 26 (Tues.)

The Somme Front:—Gueudecourt is captured by the British and Combles by the British and French; the British attack Thiepval; the French advance east of Combles to St. Pierre Vaast Wood.