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*{{NO}} - {{HMS|Birmingham}}, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
*{{PO}} - [[Germany]], by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.
==1915==
*{{WF}} - [[Zeppelin]] raid on east coast; one airship destroyed at [[Dunkirk]]. British recapture [[trench]]es at [[Hooge]]. French air-raid on Saarbrücken.
*{{EF}} - [[Osovyets]] evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on [[Kovna]] fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of [[Warsaw]].
*{{SF}} - Heavy [[Anzac]] losses; Turks getting stronger.
*{{AE}} - Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at [[Olti]] and Passin ([[Armenia]]) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from [[Van]] migrate into [[Transcaucasia]].
*{{NO}} - Gadji ([[Cameroons]]) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. {{HMS|Lynx}}, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship ''Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa'' torpedoed by British submarine.
*{{PO}} - Italian Consuls throughout [[Turkey]] preparing to leave.
==References/notes==
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