South Africa:—General Botha assumes command of the Union forces.
H.M.S. Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue (cruisers) are torpedoed by a German submarine off the Hook of Holland: 1400 lives are lost.
The Emden shells Madras.
A British naval air-raid on Düsseldorf.
Sept. 23 (Wed.)
The Germans capture St. Mihiel.
The Russians take Jaroslav (Galicia).
Sept. 24 (Thur.)
The Germans occupy Péronne.
Australian forces occupy German New Guinea.