Jan. 1—British battleship Formidable torpedoed and sunk in English Channel; 600 men lost.
Jan. 4—Official Press Bureau at Berlin announces that the Formidable was sunk by a submarine off Plymouth; British ships shell Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa.
Jan. 6—Turkish cruiser Goeben damaged by mines.
Jan. 7—Germans state that Austrian submarines are holding back French fleet in the Adriatic.
AERIAL RECORD.
Oct. 23—German Taube brought down in Dunkirk; Reymond, French aviator, killed near Verdun; German aviators drop bombs on Warsaw.
Oct. 24—Zeppelins harry fighters southwest of Ostend.
Oct. 25—Five German aeroplanes destroyed by French.
Oct. 27—New Zeppelin flies northward from Friedrichshafen; new British gun is effective against airmen.
Oct. 29—German airmen drop bombs on Bethune, nineteen women being killed; British airman chases bomb-dropping Taube at Hazebrouck.