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A TABLE OF EVENTS.

Western Front.

French success in the Vosges.

Exploits of Allied airmen. British airmen destroy German submarine off Ostend.

Artillery duel in the Argonne.

French airmen bombard Saarbrucken. Eastern Front.

Russians make a stand at Koshedary. Germans capture Ossowietz, and storm Tykocin on the Bug. Russians retire from the Niemen and the Bobr.

Germans capture Brest Litovski. Germans capture Bialystok.

Russians evacuate Olita. AustroGerman success on the Zlota Lipa.

Opening of the great German attack on the Dvina line. Fighting around Friedrichstadt and elsewhere.

Germans storm Lipsk on the Bobr.

Russian success in Galicia.

Successful Russian counter - attack. Germans storm Grodno.

Battle of Meiszagola, near Vilna, begins. Russians evacuate Grodno. Austro-Germans cross the Styr, the Sereth, and the Strypa.

Russians temporarily re-enter Grodno. Russians forced across the Dvina at Friedrichstadt.

The Tsar formally takes command of the Russian armies. GrandDuke Nicholas becomes Viceroy of the Caucasus.

Zeppelin raid on the East Coast; | Russian counter-attacks in Galicia.

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