Dec. 20—Allied fleets bombard interior forts of the Dardanelles.
Dec. 21—British capture German steamers Baden and Santa Isabel.
Dec. 22—Allied fleets shell German positions along Belgian coast; French destroyer shells Turkish troops; allied fleets shell Kilid Bahr.
Dec. 23—Russian destroyers in Black Sea bombard coast villages.
Dec. 24—French cruiser slightly damaged by Austrian torpedo; French submarine sunk by shore batteries.
Dec. 26—British make naval and air attack on German fleet without important results; French attack Austrian naval base at Pola on the Adriatic.
Dec. 27—British cruisers, assisted by seaplanes, attack German naval base at Cuxhaven; British claim to have done considerable damage.
Dec. 29—English coast towns expected American sympathy over German raid; dread new raid, and hold navy was dilatory.
Dec. 30—French submarine torpedoes Austrian dreadnought Viribus Unitis, but fails to sink her.
Dec. 31—Thirty French and British warships are bombarding Pola.