Feb. 7—British expect Turks again to attack Suez Canal, and make plans accordingly.
Feb. 8—Turks in Egypt are in full retreat; their losses in dead have been heavy.
Feb. 13—British wipe out Turkish force at Tor.
Feb. 17—Work of Consul Paddock in saving British property at Tabriz is praised in British House of Commons.
Feb. 22—Turks are massacring Armenians in Caucasus towns; Turks make general retirement on Damascus.
Feb. 28—Turks have evacuated the Sinai Peninsula.
NAVAL RECORD—GENERAL.
Feb. 1—German submarine seen near Liverpool; there is a new theory that infernal machines in coal caused blowing up of the Formidable and the Bulwark.
Feb. 2—English shipping paper offers reward of $2,500 to first British merchant vessel that sinks a German submarine; German submarine tries to torpedo British hospital ship Asturias; men from a Swedish warship are killed by a mine.
Feb. 3—German auxiliary is sunk by British cruiser Australia off Patagonia; German destroyer reported sunk by Russians in the Baltic.