WAR- CHRONICLE

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A Russian Cavalry Division repulsed at the border at Romeiken.
Galician-Polish Volunteers scatter a body of Cossacks.
Austrian cruisers bombard. Antivari.
The German Ambassador leaves Belgrade.
Austria declares war against France.
August 11.
A mixed French brigade forced to retreat to French territor)at
Lagarde, Lorraine: French lose a flag, 2 batteries, 4 machine
guns, and 700 prisoners.
France declares war against Austria.
Small successes of Austrian Border Troops at the North Galician
frontier.
Confirmation of Russian evacuation of Warsaw.
Small cruiser "Dresden" chases the "Mauritania'' into Halifax.
August 12.
Armoured cruiser "Goeben" and the small cruiser "Breslau'"
escape to sea although watched by British ships, after successful
operations off the Algerian coast, and coaling in the neutral Italian
port of Messina.
Over 1,200,000 have volunteered up to date.
German submarines have patrolled the coast of England and
Scotland.
Montenegro breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany: the
German Ambassador von Eckardt leaves Cetinje.
August 13.
The French driven entirely from Germany. 10 French officers,
513 men and 4 guns captured at the battle of Mulhausen. Over
1,000 French prisoners of war taken at Lagarde. The Sultan issues
a remarkable proclamation to the Army.
The English bombard the harbour of Daressalam and destroy its
wireless.
Report that a Polish National Government has been formed at
Warsaw.
August 14.
England declares war against Austria-Hungary.
Command of the British Admiralty to begin hostilities at once
against Austria-Hungary.
Prince Henry of Bavaria destroys a division of French Dragoons.
Continued successful advance of Austro-Hungarian forces in
Russian Poland.
Russian war ships sink a Dutch vessel in the Baltic Sea.