100 YEARS AGO

Saturday, Dec. 5 1914

First part of WWI naval operations successful

The Navy Department yesterday published a survey of the operations of the different squadrons and divisions of the Imperial Navy since the outbreak of the world war, and announced that the first part of the operations has come to an end. In the early part of November, the survey noted, Germany's warships in Kiaochou Bay, Hawaiian waters and the Indian Ocean all came to grief at the hands of the Imperial Navy. The rest of the enemy's fleet are now known to have fled toward Chilean waters, thus marking the beginning of a new phase in operations.