Oct. 14—­There are but few men in the Maritz rebel force; silence of
Boer leaders is found disquieting in England.

Oct. 15—­Col.  Brits’s force captures eighty rebels under Col.  Maritz;
Gen. Botha takes field; prominent men arrested on charge of treason.

NAVAL RECORD.

July 26—­British and French fleets ready for action; Servian vessels in Danube seized by Austrians; German fleet ordered concentrated in home waters; Italy masses fleet.

July 29 and 30—­British fleet leaves Portland; British and German fleets in Far East mobilize.

July 31—­German squadron stops merchant vessels in Danish waters; British warships near; Montenegrin King’s yacht escapes Austrian destroyers.

Aug. 2—­Fight between German and Russian cruisers off Libau; German High Sea Fleet seizes Wilson liner Castro and a collier; fleets assemble in Far East.

Aug. 3—­Germans chase Norwegian food ship.

Aug. 4—­Rival warships off Port of New York; British mine layer sunk by
German fleet; British fleet will aim to destroy Kiel Canal.

Aug. 5—­British third flotilla has battle with Germans in North Sea; cruiser Amphion damaged; German mine layer Koenigen Luise sunk; many German merchant ships seized by English, French, and Russians; Germans bombard Sveaborg, torpedo boat blown up.

Aug. 6—­British cruiser Amphion sunk by mine; French capture German tank steamer; Germans capture Russian ship.

Aug. 7—­British and German cruisers reported in fight off Brazilian coast; British steamers destroyed by mines off German and Turkish coasts; British capture German steamer Schlesien; German merchant ship captured by French; Germans capture Russian cruiser; Japanese warships off port of Tsing-tau; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau leave Genoa.

Aug. 8—­Thirty-six German ships seized by Belgians; Russians capture Austrian and German merchant steamers; British capture German ship, said to be North German Lloyd liner; naval fight in Adriatic; interest in position of Goeben and Breslau; bombardment of Libau reported by ship Captain.

Aug. 9—­British sink German submarine; cruiser Essex takes ship at sea; Goeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles; two German steamers taken at Rouen and one at Colombo; England and France protest against German steamer Karlsruhe coaling at Porto Rico; firing off Shanghai; British fleet proceeds to Tsing-tau; Austrian cruisers bombard Antivari.

Aug. 10—­Cruiser Birmingham sinks German submarine U-15; British close North Sea to fishing fleets; Dutch steamer sunk in Baltic; Belgians seize two Austrian steamers; English and Canadian steamers hunt in Atlantic for German cruisers.

Aug. 11—­Battle in the Adriatic; Russians capture twenty German merchant vessels in Baltic.

Aug. 12—­German destroyer sunk by mine off South Gedser.

Aug. 13—­German cruisers bombard Windau; France will check Austria’s navy; British said to have bottled up German Far Eastern squadron; German cruisers Goeben and Breslau are flying Turkish flag.