DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA.
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BEIT EVEH1S OF
THE YHRIN BRIEF
Progress of the War of Civiliza
tion Against Germany.
AMERICA ENTERS CONFLICT
Ozar of Russia Deposed and Radicals
8eel Peace Hlndonburg Lino
fimashcd by Allies and Tcu
tons Invado Italy Other
Important Happen
ings of 1917.
Compiled by E. W. PICKARD.
THE WORLD WAR
tVnl?ichiIaCrman8 dcfoated Russians In
teSaln'SlnWlSgLX,rorn,a mnk ln Mcd1'
iani -I'remler Trepoff of Russia re.
signed ana was succeeded by Prlnco Gollt
ztno. ,?irltlsh waralilp Cornwall sunk by tor.
' 'i-rJapanpso battleship Tsukubn
destroyed by explosion; 153 killed.
.,lan a--vrealC nt Wilson, addressing
Sfi?iaL0,i Byro.. world utllno of terms on
which ho believed lasting peaco could bo
concluded.
-?." 23. Destroyers fought two engage
ments in North sea, the Germans losing
several vessels and the English one.
Jan 2o. Germans took mile of French
trenches on Hill 301. Vordun region.
British auxiliary cruiser Laurontlc sunk
toy mine, 350 lives lost.
French transport Admiral Macon tor
pedoed; 141 lost.
Jan 31. Germany announced submnrlno
Blockade of all enemy countries, outlined
forbidden zones and revoked pledges on
submarine wnrfare.
Feb. 3. United States broke off diplo
matic relations with Germany; President
Wilson dismissed Ambassador von Born
storff and recalled Ambassador Gerard.
Feb. 4. Germany ngrced to release
Americans taken by commerce raider.
Gcrmnn gunboat Interned at Honolulu
burned by crew: many German vessels ln
American ports damaged.
Feb. 5. German submarlno shelled arid
sank British provisional naval collier
Eavcstono and killed four men. Including
Richard Wnllace. American.
Belgian relief steamer Lars Kruso sunk
by Gorman submarine; nil but one of crow
lost.
Feb. 7. Anchor liner California and oth
er vessels sunk by German submarlno; 41
lost on California.
Feb. 12. President Wilson rofused parley
sought by Germany.
American schooner Lyman M. Law de
stroyed by Austrian submarine.
Feb. 17. British smashed German linos
on both sides of Ancre river.
U. S. sent peremptory demand to Ger
many for release of Tarrowdale prisoners.
Germnn submarine sank Italian trans
port; 998 lives lost.
Feb. 22. Germany freed the Tarrowdalo
prisoners.
Fob. 25. German submarine sunk Cunar
der Laconla off Irish coast; 12 lost. Includ
ing Mrs. A. II. Hoy and dnughtor of Chi
cago, and one American member of crew.
BritlBh and German destroyers fought ln
English Channel.
Feb. 2a President Wilson asked con
gress to grant him powers to protect
Ameruan shipping.
Brit I ill took Kut-ol-Amarn from Turks.
Feb. 28. U. S. government revealed
German plot to Join with Mexico and
Japan In making war on Uplted States.
British occupied Gommecourt and other
villages ln Ancro region.
French destroyer Casslnl torpedoed: 100
lost
March 2. Germany announced nil ves
sels would bo sunk hereafter without
warning.
March 4. Austrian nttack east of Gorltz
repulsed with great losses.
March 9. President Wilson ordered the
arming of U. S. merchant vessels.
March 11. Bagdad captured by British.
March 12. Revolution begun In Petro
grnd. March 13. China severed diplomatic re
lations with Germany.
Russian imperial cabinet deposed by
duma.
March 14. Germans in great retreat
along Komme front.
March IB. Czar Nicholas abdicated Rus
sian throne for himself nnd his son.
Russians captured Hamadan, Asiatic
Turkey.
March 17. British took Bapaumo and
French took Roye.
Zeppelins raided London; one shot down
near Complcgr.o, Franco.
Hrianci cabinet rn iranco resigned.
March IS. American freighters Vlgllan
cla. City of Memphis and Illinois, sunk by
German submarine; 22 perished.
British and French advanced 10 mlle3 on
70-mlIei front and took Peronne, Chaulncs
and Noyo.
March 19. Germans mado new fierce
drive at Verdun, but wero repulsed with
enormous losses.
Rlbot formed new French cabinet.
March 21. British took forty moro towns
in France.
March 26. French occupied Folembrny
and Li Feullloe, south of Coucy forest.
British captured Lagnlcourt.
March 23. Now Russian government In
stalled. April 1. British captured Savy, Von
dolles, Epehy and Pelzlcrc.
French reached outskirts of Vauxalllon
and Laffaux.
Armed American ship Aztec sunk by
Germs n submarlno off French coast; 19
of crew caved.
April 2. President Wilson, addressing
special session of congress, asked formal
resolution that stato of war was in exis
tence between tho United States und Ger
many, and called for co-operation with
entente allies to defeat German autocracy.
April 4. Senate passed resolution declar
ing Btato ot war between U. S. and Ger
many, by a voto of 82 to 6.
April C. Houso passed war resolution
by voto of 373 to 60; President Wilson
signed It and issuod a proclamation to
world and ordered navy mobilized at
once. All German vessels ln American
porls-wcro seized and many supposed Ger
man plotters were arrested.
April 7. German cruiser Cormoran,
interned at dimm, blown up by crew.
Cuba and Panama declared stato of war
with Germany.
April 8. Austria broko off diplomatic
relations with U. S.
April 9. B-lt!sh advanced two to threo
miles on twolvo mllo front near Arras,
smashing German lino and taking Vlmy
ridge and many towns.
April 10. Brazil severed relations with
Germany; Argentina declared It supported
tho position of tho United States; Chill
decided to remain neutral.
April U. Costa Rica declared it sup-
Sorted the position of the United States;
ruguay proclaimed its neutrality.
Apill 12. British naval men met ln first
allied council With U. S. officials ln
Washington.
BulgnrU severed relations with U. S.
April 13. Bolivia severed relations with
Germany.
British and French mado further big ad
vances on west front.
April H. House passed $7,000,000,000 war
revenue uutliorlzalion bill without dissent
ing vole.
April 15. Brtlsh patrols entered suburbs
of Lens.
Germans ron'ed at Lagnlcourt with ter
rible losses.
British trai port Arcadian torpedoed;
279 lost.
British transport Cameronia sunk; 140
lost.
April 16. 1-resident Wilson issued proc
lamation warning agalnts tho commission
of treusonab'n acts.
Congress appropriated $100,000,000 tor
emergoncy wur fund.
French otrined great offensive on 25
mllo front between Solssons and Reims,
taking 10,000 prisoners.
April 17 --Senate unanimously passed $7,
000,000.000 bond Issuo bill.
Germans sank two British hospital ships
loaded with wounded British and Ger
mans. April 19. American liner Mongolia sank
Gernia submarlno In Irish sea.
Nicaragua indorsed course of United
States.
April 20. Russian council of workmen's
and soldiers' delegates declared against
separate pence.
Two Germnn destroyers sunk off Dover,
April 21. -British war commission arrived
In United States.
Turkey sovered relations with United
States.
April 24. French war commission ar
rived In United States.
British made further advances In Arras
sector In face ot desperato opposition by
Germans.
April 23. German destroyers bombarded
Dunkirk but were driven ofT.
American tanker Vacuum sunk by sub
marlno; naval lieutenant and 9 gunners
lost.
April 27, British occupied Arteauz and
half of Oppy.
April 23. Congress passed nrmy bills
with sclectlvo conscription features.
Guatemala severed rotations with Ger
many. April 29. General Potaln made chief of
French staff.
May 3. Chilean minister to Germany
demanded his passports.
May 4. French capturod Crnonno.
House passed espionage bill with modi
fled press consorshlp clause.
British transport Transylvania torpe
doed; 413 lives lost
May r. French mado big ndvanco on
four mllo front southwest of La on.
May C Bolivia severed relations with
Germany.
May 7. Coalition government of provi
sional government nnd soldiers' nnd work
men's delegates formed in Russia.
May 11. Italy reported destruction of 13
German submarines ln ono wock.
Chicago bonrd of trado stopped trading
ln May wheat.
May 12,-BrItlsh again lilt the Hlnden
burg lino, establishing themselves near
Hulliccurt.
May . P-stiato possod csplonago bills
without pront'ultton and press censorship
clauses.
Italians attacked nlong the whole Isonzo
front, gaining ground north of Gorltz.
May 15. Chancelor Hollwcg before the
Reichstag refused to discuss Germany's
peace alms.
Trading In wheat futures stopped In six
middle west exchanges.
Italians made big gains on Julian front
taking Monte Cucco nnd Monto Vodlco.
Ma 17. Senate passed army draft bill.
British completed capture of Biillocourt.
May 18. President Wilson ordered one
division, commanded by General Pershing,
sent to Franco at once. He also signed
the army draft bill and set Juno C for
registration dny.
Honduras severed relations with Ger
many. May 19. President Wilson selected II.
C. Hoover as head of a food control board.
Nicaragua severed relations with Ger
many. Senate passed tho $3,312,000,000 war bud
get May 23. House passed war tax bill car
rying $1,870,000,000.
Secretary Lansing refused passports for
American delegates to Stockholm social
ist peace conference.
Amcrlcnn ship carrying supplies to
Switzerland sunk by torpedo.
Premier Tlsza and entlro Hungarian
cabinet resigned.
May 21. Italians broke through Austrian
front from Cnstngnavizza to Gulf of
Trlesto, taking 9,000 prisoners.
May 25. First American field service
corps went to front ln France.
Germans made air raid on southeastern
England, killing 76 and Injuring 1744.
May 27. Italians again broke through
Austrlnn lines.
May 29. War department Issued call for
100.000 volunteers for regular army.
London reported sinking of hospital ship
and armed cruiser by submarines.
Brazil chamber of deputies authoilzod
revocation of neutrality decree.
Juno 2. Senato passed first of admin
istration's food bills.
Fourteen German and Hindoo plotters
Indicted by federal grand Jury at Chicago.
U. S. railroad commission to Russia ar
rived at Vladivostok.
June 3. American commission to Rus
sia, headed by Root, readied Russian port,
French repulsed five great attacks south
of Laon.
Juno 4. Brusslloff mndo commandor ln
chief of Russian armies.
Juno C More than ten million young
Americans registered for tho National
army.
Gcrmnn aviators raided naval base in
tho Medway near London, but wero driven
off, losing eight machines.
British mado big advanco on north bank
of the Scarpo.
American liner sank Gorman submarlno
after long fight
June 7. British began great offonslvo In
Belgium, blowing up, Messlncs ridge and
advancing 5 miles on 9-mllo front,
straighton'ng out big salient.
Juno 8. General Pershing and staff ar
rived ln England.
Germany broko off relations with Haiti.
Juno 10. General Pershing's staff ar
rived In France.
June 12. King Constantino of arcece.
forced by tho allies, abdicated ln favor of
Prlnco Alexander, his second son.
American steamship Petrollto reported
sunk by submarine.
June 13. Germans mndo nlr raid on Lon
don, killing 97 and woun" -ig 437.
Army and navy deficiency appropriation
bill carrying $3,000,000,000 passed by con
Juno 14. British mado big advanco east
and south ot Messlncs.
Juno 15. Liberty loan heavily over-sub
scribed when dooks cioseu.
.Timn a). President Wilson Issuod call
for 70,000 volunteers for regulnr army.
Juno 22. French repulsed violent attacks
of Germans on tho Chemln des Dames.
Juno 23. Houso passed food control bill
with "bono dry" nmondment.
Juno 25. President Wilson nppolnted nn
exports council composed of tho secre
taries of state, agrlculturo and commerce
and tho food administrator.
June 26. American coal barons agreed to
fixing ot prices.
First contingent of Pershing's army
landed In France.
June 27. Second contingent of Pershing s
nrmy landed In France.
Now Greek cabinet headed by Venlzelos
took oath of ofllco. ...
Juno 28. Brazil revoked its decree of
neutrality ln war between entente allies
and Germany.
Juno 29. Grceco broko off diplomatic re
lations with Germany, Austria, Bulgaria
and Turkev. .,-,,..
July 1. Russians captured Konluchy,
Gallcla, and Turkish strongholds ln tho
Caucasus.
July 3. French repulsed great Gorman
attack near Cerny.
July 7. Russians successfully attacked
in Plnslc sector.
Germans made air raid on London, kill
ing 37 and losing a numbor of planes.
July 8. President Wilson proclaimed nn
embargo on shipments of food, fuel, steel
and munitions, to cut oft supplies from
neutral countries to Germany except dairy
products for non-combatants ln exchange
for coal,
July 9. Now Austrian cabinet resigned.
President Wilson called entlro National
Guard and its reserve Into the federal
service by August C.
British battleship Vangunrd destroyod
by interior explosion; 600 lost.
July 10. Russians broko Teuton line
east of Lcmberg and took Hnlicz.
July 11. President Wilson called on
American business Interests to aid nation
by foregoing unusual profits in Belling to
tho nation and the public.
July 12. Russlnn advance checked west
of Bohorodozany.
July 11. Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg
resigned and Dr. G. 12. Michnells succeed
ed him
Houso passed 640.000,000 aviation bill,
July 17. French took German trenches
near Malancourt.
Threo mombers of Russian cabinet re
signed; riots ln Petrogrnd suppressed.
Shal:o-up in British cabinet.
July 19. Great German altnck between
Craonno and Ilurteblso partly successful.
Chancellor Michaolls declared himself
for tho submarine warfare.
In Vllgna region Germans drove back
Russians because somo Russian regiments
held meetings to decldo whether to obey
orders.
July 20. Draft for American National
army held.
Premier Lyoff of Russia resigned nnd
was cucceoded by Kcrcnaky.
July 21. Senato passed food control nnd
aviation bills.
Russian troops in disorderly retreat,
burning villages.
July 22. German aviators raided Eng
land, killing 11 In const towns, but bclnir
driven away from Ixmdon.
Slam declared stnto of war with Ger
many nnd Austria-Hungary.
July 23. Government of national safety
created ln Russia and Kcrcnaky given ab
solute nowprs.
July 25. Mutinous division of Kornlloft's
Russian army reported blown to plci eb
with Its own nrtlllery,
Russians nnd Roumanians In South Car
pathians broke Teuton line.
National Guard of 19 states and District
of Columbia mobilized.
July 23. Germany yielded to Argontlno
demands concerning submarine warfare.
Landing of moro Amorlcnti troops In
Franco announced.
War Industries board, F. N. Scott chnlr
man. created,
July 20. Gormans penetrated Russian
territory enst of Zbrocz, but Russian re
sistance stiffened.
Henry Chapman Gilbert, Washington,
first mnn accepted for Natlonnl aimy.
, British cruiser Ariadne torpedoed; 3S
killed.
July 31. Anglo-French forces opened
great offensive In Flanders on 20 mile
front taking 11 villages and 6.000 prisoners.
Aug. l.-Brltlsh and French gained fur
ther ground In Tpres sector, but Germans
recaptured St. Jullen and part of West
book. Aug. 2. German countor-nttnehs in Flan
ders repulsed.
Kornlloff succeeded Brusslloff as com
mander In chief of Russian nrmles.
Aug. 3. Austrinns captured Czernowlta
and Klmpolung.
British ro-took St Jullen, Flanders.
Serious draft riots in central Oklahoma.
Aug. 4. Shipping board commandeered
about 676 ships under construction.
Aug B. President Wilson draftod ontlro
National Guard Into federal service.
Germans made violent attack on British
ln ftullebeko.
Aug. 6. Chancellor Michaolls mado many
changes in Imperial and Prussian minis
tcrlcs. Premier Keronsky completed a coalition
cabinet.
Aug. 8. Roumanian forcei opened now
offensive north of Fokshanl.
Food control bill sent to Prcsldont Wil
son. Canadian conscription bill passed.
Aug. 9. Teutons forced crossing of Su
chltza river In Fokshanl region.
Aug. 10. British drovo Germans back
two miles In Flandors nnd French ad
vanced east nnd north of Blxschooto.
Aug. 11. Arthur Hendorson resigned as
Inbor member of British war cabinet, be
ing accused of double dealing concerning
Stockholm conference.
Herbert Hoover made American food ad
ministrator. Aug. 12. German airplanes raided Eng
land, killing 23.
Aug. 14. China declared war on Gor
mnny and Austrln-Hungnry.
Peace proposals by the pope mado pub
lic. Aug. 15. Canadian troops captured Hill
70, dominating Lens and the Loos salient,
nnd entered Lens.
U. 8. government's plan to control flour
and wheat put In opcrntlon.
Aug. 16. British and French made big
gains in Flandors, taking Langemarck and
other villages.
Vim Mackensen drovo Russians across
tho Sereth river.
Aug. IS. French mado great ntrplnne
raids on Gorman positions In Belgium and
Germany.
Italians began new offonslvo in tho Ison
zo region.
Aug. 19. British lino ndvnnced COO yards
enst of Langemarck, mainly with "tnnks."
Mnny I. W. W. leaders arrested by U.
S. federal agents.
Aug. 20. French drovo back Germans In
Verdun sector on 11 mllo front, taking
Avocourt wood. Lo Mort Homme summits,
Corbeaux wood nnd Champneuvllle.
Aug. 21. Bittlsh forced their wny fur
ther Into the defenses of Lens.
French made further advances in Ver
dun sector.
Aug. 22. Gei-canns oponed offensivo in
Riga region.
British took important positions along
Ypres-Mcnln road.
Germans made nlr raids on English
coast, killing 11.
Aug. 23. Dr. H. A. Garfield mado fuel
administrator of U. S.
Aug. 24. British pushed back on Tprcs
Menln road.
French took Hill 304, Verdun, by storm.
Aug 24. Italians captured Monto Santo,
northeast of Gorlzla,
Aug. 28. President Wilson rejected the
popo's pence proposals as impossible while
German nutocracy exists.
Aug. 30. U. 8. wheat commtttco fixed
basic price for 1917 crop nt $2.20.
Germans mado air raid on port of
Riga.
Sept. 1. British destroyers destroyed
four German armed trawlers oft Jutland.
Sept. 3. Russians abandoned Riga.
German airplanes raided Chatham, Eng
land, killing ids.
Sept. 4. Italians captured Monto San
Onbrlelo.
German submarine shelled Scarborough
and airplanes bombed London.
Sept. 6. American National army began
movement to cantonments.
Federal agents" raided I. W. W. quar
ters throughout country,
American merchantmen under convoy
attacked by U-boats; two steamships and
one submarine sunk.
Sept. 6. IIouso passed war credits bill
authorizing $11,538,945,460 ln bonds and cer
tificates. Sept. 7. Atlantic transport lines Minne
haha torpedoed; CO deud.
German uvlators bombed American hos
pital camp, killing five.
Sept. 8. Secretary Lansing exposed vio
lations of neutrality by Swedish olllclals in
Argentina and Stockholm, ln transmitting
German cablegrams advising sinking of
Argentlno vessels.
French cabinet resigned.
Sept. 9. Kornlloff, commander ln chief
of Rubsian armies, headed military coun
ter revolution and was dismissed by Kor
ensky. Sept. 10. Senate passed war revenue bill
totaling $2,411,670,000.
Paul Palnlove became French premier.
Sept. 12. Count Luxburg, German min
ister to Argentina, given his passports;
anti-German ilots ln Buenos Aires.
Kerensky mado commander ln chief of
Russian armies.
Sept 13. Kornlloft's revolt collapsed.
Secretary Lansing exposed unneutral
action of former Swedish chargo ln Moxlco
City.
Sept. 14. Italians drovo Auslrlans from
Aionio Ban uaorieio summit.
Sept. 15. Senate passed bill for $11,533,
556,400 bond Issues.
British naval alrcrart destroyed ono Ger
mnn destroyer and somo trawlers neur Os
tend. Sept. 10. Premier Kerensky proclaimed
Russia a republic.
Sept 17. Costa Rica broko off relations
with Germany.
Sept. IS. Russia began reorganization of
army, suppressing soldiers' committees.
Houso passed $7,141,000,000 dellclcncy war
supply bill,
Sept. 20. British began great offensive
cabt of Yprcs.
Sept. 21. Secretary Lansing published
message of Von Bernstorff to Berlin ask
ing leavo to spend $50,000 "to influence, con
gress." Costa Rica severed diplomatic relations
with Germany.
Germany and Austria replied favorably
to pope's peaco proposal.
Germans broko through Russian lino at
Jacobstadt.
Sept. 22. Secretary Lansing revealed de
tails ot Bernstorff's plotting beforo U, S.
entered the war.
Sept. 23. Secretary Lansing disclosed
German abuso of U. S. protection by con
coaling In Bucharest legation explosives
and dlscaso germs after U, S. had taken
It over.
Sept. 24. German airplanes raided Eng
land, killing 20.
Wnr Industries board and producers cut
steel prices in half.
Gormans lost heavily in attacks near
Veidun.
Sept 25. Germans mado two moro air
raids on England.
U. S. senato passed $3,000,000,000 war do
flclemy bill.
Sept. 20. British took strong positions
fr m Germans east and norf east of
Romany offered to evacuate Belgium
u'.der certnln conditions.
Gen. Soukhomllnoff, former war minis
ter of Russia, sentenced for llfo for high
iH'ason.
Sept. 28. Many I. W. W. loaders Indicted
for seditious conspiracy.
Sept. 29. British captured Rnmodlc, Me
sopotamia, nnd-tts Inrgo gairlsnn.
German nlrnlnnes raided London.
British nlrplanes bombed Zeebrugge.
Sept. SO. Two more air raids made on
London.
FumI Administrator Garfield set limits
for rotntl prices of coal,
Oct 1. Hcnvy attacks of Gnrmnns re
pulsed by'Frtnch and British, und of Aua
tilnns by Italians
Four groups of German airplanes raid
ed London and coast towns.
Second Liberty loan campaign started.
French nlrmcn made reprisal raids on
Prunkfoit, Stuttgart. Treves nnd Cob
lenz, nnd British bombed Zeebruggo locks.
Oct, 2. British tepulspd six desperato
Oerman attacks In Flanders.
British cruiser Drake torpedoed; 19
killed
Oct. 3. President Wilson signed the wnr
tax bill.
Oct 4. British won great battle east of
Vpres.
Oct 8. Peru broko off relations with
Gctmnny.
Congress completed Its war rrOErnm
and adjourned.
Oct. 7.-Uruguay sovcrcd relations with
Germany
Oct 12 -British gained half mllo on six
mile front In Flanders.
Germans captured part of Island of
Ocsel in Gulf of Rigs,
Oct. 14. President WIlRon created war
board to stop trading with the enemy and
took other Btcps to curb enemy activities
in America.
Ono Russian nnd two German torpodo
boats sunk In battle near Ocaol.
.Oct 15. Destruction of French steamer
Medio by submarlno announced; 260 lives
Oct. 17. Two Germnn raiders sank two
British destroyers and 12 Scandinavian
rnerhnntmen thoy wero convoying ln tho
North sea.
Oct. 17. Germans In full posscstlon of Is
land of OcsM.
American transport Antilles torpedoed;
C7 lost
Oct. 18.-Germans captured Moon island
from Russians.
Oct. 19. Germans mndo nlr raid on Lon
don, killing 24.
Oct. 20,-Four ZcppHns Ceatroyed by the
French.
Oct. 23. French broke t'jrougn German
lines nort.i of the Alsne. Inflicting heavy
losses and taking 8.000 prisoner.
American troops wont into first line
trenches nnd fired first shot at OirmanB.
Oct 21. Austrinns and Gormsi's began
offensive along Isonzo front.
Oct 25. French mado anothei Wg gnln
in Alsno sector.
Austro-Gorman attack drovo Italians
pack to frontier on tho Julian lino forc
ilJR "jrinonment of Balnslzsa pla'oau;
30,000 Italians enpturod.
Oct. 26. Itrlltsh nml FronMi tnmln lili- nt.
tack east of Yprcs.
Brazil declared state of war with Ger
many existed.
Oct. 27.- Italians In generat retreat. lOO.cmo
captured; Teutons advanced beyond Civl
dale. Oct. SO. Austro-Germnns took Udlne
and broko through Carole Alps Into Vcno
tla. Vlttorlo Orlando formed new Italian
cabinet
Count George von Hertllng mado Ger
man Imperial chaitcollor, Michaolls having
reslgnod.
Oct 31.-Bcrlln reported 120,000 Italians
nnd moro than 1,000 guns enptured.
American transport Finland struck by
torpedo: eight men killed.
Nqy. 1. Italians re-formod behind tho
Tnglinmcnto.
British announced capture of Bcorshoba,
Palestine.
Nov. 2.-Crown prlnco withdrew from the
uiiomin aes Dames to the Allette river.
Ono German crulsor and ton nrmod
trawlers sunk by British in tho Cattcgat.
United States and Japan mado compact
on open door in China and co-oporatlon In
tho war.
Nov. 3. Gormnns raldod salient held by
Americans, killing threo, wounding C nnd
taking 12 prisoners.
Nov. 6. American patrol boat Alcedo
sunk by torpedo; 21 lost.
Nov. 6 Italians retreated from Taglla
mento lino.
British captured Passchondaelo and ad
vanced 800 yards beyond.
Nov. 7. Itnllans fell back to Llvenza
river, Gormans following.
American commission to Paris confer
ence, headed by Col. House, reached Eng
land. British ln Palestine captured Gaza.
Nov. 8. Russian maxImallstB under
Lcnlne seized government nnd planned for
itnmcdlato peace; Kerensky fled from Pe
trogrnd. Nov. 9. Britain, Franco and Italy cre
ated Interallied war commlttco; Gen, Diaz
mado first commander of Italian nrmles.
Nov. 10. Russian rebol government made
Lenlno premier.
'Germans reached Plave river ln Italy.
Nov. 11. Italians repulsed Teutons near
Astago.
Loyal troops attacked maximalists ln
Petrogrnd.
Itnllans held Teutons on Plavo river.
Nov. J3. Kerensky and tho Cossacks
badly defeated.
French cabinet resigned.
Nov. 15. Georges Clomenceau becamo
premlor of Frnncc.
Itnllans Inundated big section about tho
lower Plavo to save Venice.
Socialist seized tho government of Fin
land. Nov. 17 Bolshovlkl won in Moscow.
British light sea forces routed German
squadron oft Helgoland.
British occupied Jaffa, Pnlestlne.
Teutons who crossed Plavo at Zonson
annihilated.
Nov. 18. Bolshevlkl gonornlly victorious
in Russia; Civil wur halted by lack of
food.
Nov. 19. Teutons concentrating big gun
flro on north of Italian lino.
President Wilson Issued proclamation
putting severe restrictions on enemy
aliens ln United States.
Daniel Willard mado head of U. S. war
Industries board.
American destroyer Chauncey sunk in
collision; 21 lost.
Nov, 20. Two American soldiers killed
nnd flvo wounded ln artillery combat.
Nov. 21. British smashed through tho
Illndenburg lino toward Cambral, taking
many towns and thousands of prisoners.
French successfully attacked Gorman
salient south of Juvlncourt.
Nov. 22. Furious fighting near Cnmbral.
Italians meeting great massed attack
between Plave and Brentn rivers.
Bolshevlkl government ln Russia pro
posed general arml3tico.
Nov. 23. Tho Ukralno declared separa
tion from Russia.
Nov. 24. The British took Bourlon wood,
near Cambral.
The Caucasus declared Us independence.
Nov. 25 BritlHh and French armies
reached Italian front.
Nov. 27. Superior wnr council of 11
formed for United States.
British took part of Fontaine, near Cam
brnl. Italians repulsed ncrce Touton attacics.
Nov. 28. Coalition ministry formed in
Russia.
Germany assented to bolshevlkl plan for
armistice.
U. S. government assumed control over
all Imports.
Throo Scandinavian kings agreed ln
maintain neutrality.
Nov. 29. Interallied war conference
opened In Paris.
Austria agreed to Russia nrmlstlco plan.
Nov. SO. Government announced safe
arrival In France of lnrge numbers of Na
tlonnl Gunrd troops.
Gormans pierced British lines south of
Cambral.
Dec. 1. British regained most of ground
lost near Cambral. and nino Gorman ut
tacks were repulsed with great losses.
Dec. 2. British withdrew from Mas
nlcrcs on Cnmbral front.
Dec. 3. British repulsed furious attacks
nonr Cnmbral.
United States congress met for second
war session.
England reportod East Africa complete
ly cleared of Germans.
Russian deputation began nrmlstlco neg
otiations with Gormans. Artnlstlco an
nounced on many sections of Russian
front.
Dec. 4. President Wilson, In his annual
message, declared peace would not be
made with present rulers of Germany,
that America would fight to last gun, and
asked deolniutlon of war against Austria
Hungary. Establishment of Tartar republlo in
Crimea announced.
British steamor Apapa torpedoed; 60
passengers and tho crew lost.
Dec. G. Germans rojected Russians' first
demands ln nrmlstlco negotiations.
Itnllans lost somo positions on Aslngo
plateau.
British aviators raided Swelbrticken nnd
Saarbruckcn.
British withdrew from Bourlon wood
ealli.-nt near Cnmbral.
Dec. 6. Italians driven back on Aslago
plateau,
Armlstlco for ten days declared .on Rus
sian front.
German nlr raiders killed seven in Eng
land. U. S. destroyer Jacob Jones torpedoed;
C6 men lost.
Dee. 7. United States congress declared
wnr on Austria-Hungary.
Roumania accepted nrmlstlco with tho
enemy.
Dec 8, Great Italian nlr fleet mado suc
cessful attack on Austro-Germnns.
Ecuador severed diplomatic relations
with Gormnny.
Dec. O.-Kaltdlnes and Kornlloff leading
revolt of Cossacks against Lenlno govern
ment of Russia,
Dec. 10. British captured Jerusalem.
Japaneso troops landed In Vladivostok.
Dec. 11. Russian constituent assem
bly mot.
Dec 12 Gormnns mado great attack
east of Bullocourt gaining Hllghtly,
Congressional Inquiry Into U. S. wnr
preparations started,
British destroyer, four trawlers and
six merchantmen sunk In North son. by
Germnns.
Dec. IB. Armlstlco ntrrcement slfrnod
by Russian bolshevlkl government and
Teutonic allies.
Wnr council In U, B. war department
created.
Dee. 17. Chnrlcs Ploz succocded Rear
Admiral Harris ns general mnnager of
tho emergency fleet corporation.
Dec. 18. Gen. Gocthals mado acting
quartermaster general and Gen. Wheel
er acting chief of ordnance.
Gcrmnn nlr raid on England.
DOMESTIC
Jan. 17. Danish West Indies passed un
dor sovereignty ot United Stntcs.
Jan. 22. Blue sky laws ot Ohio. Michi
gan and South Dakota held constitutional
by U. H, Supreme court.
Jan 23. Women of North Dakota grant
ed limited Biirfrngo.
Jan. 29. President Wilson vetoed the
immigration bill becauso of literacy test.
Feb. 1. Houso passed Immigration bill
over president's veto.
Feb. 2. Indiana and Alaska prohibition
bills passed nnd governors of Oregon and
Tonncsseo signed "dry" bills.
Feb. 6.- Senato passed immigration bill
over president's veto
Feb. 8.-Utah's prohibition bill signed
by governor.
Feb. 14. -Ohio senato passed woman suf
frage bill.
Feb. 19.-Wnsblngton's "bono dry" bill
Blgned by Gov. Lister.
Feb. 20. Senate passod drastic esplon
ngo bills.
South Dakota prohibition bill passod.
Feb. 21. House passed senato measure
prohibiting Importation of liquor Into pro
hibition stntos.
Prohibition bill for Knnsns passed.
Feb. 22. Houso passed army bill without
larger general staff and universal train
ing features.
Feb. 23. Houso passed senate bill mak
ing city of Washington dry.
Senato pnssod administration rovenuo
bill to raise $360,000,000.
March 2. Senato passed $517,000,000 navy
bill.
March 4. Sixty-fourth congress expired.
Twelve senators by filibuster prevented
passage of ship arming bill nnd much
other Important legislation.
Woodrow Wilson took oath ot office in
private.
March C Wilson and Marshall Innugu
rated. March 6. Federal grand Jury nt New
York indicted 163 eastern fuel dealers for
criminal conspiracy to rnlso coal prices.
March 9. President Wilson cnllod extra
session of congress for April 16.
March 21. President Wilson advanced
date for extra session of congress to
April 2.
April 2. Congress met In special session
amid great patriotic enthusiasm.
April 9. Supremo court upheld woman's
minimum wngo law of Oregon, nnd de
clared lllegnl price fixing restrictions by
means of "llconBos" for public uso of
patented articles.
April 17. Rhodo Island legislature ex
tended presidential Biiffrago to women.
Juno 5. Serious revolt In Jollet, 111., pen
Itentlarv quelled by military.
Juno 27. Houso pnssod rivers and har
bors bill appropriating $27,000,000.
Senato pnssed dnyllght saving bill.
July 2. Raco riot In Enst St. Iiuls In
which moro than 20 negroe3 nnd two white
men wero killed nnd heavy proporty loss
caused.
July 26. Senate passod rivers' and har
bors bill.
Aug. 1. Senato passed Shcppard resolu
tion for national prohibition nmendmont
to tho constitution.
Aug. 23. Soldiers of Twenty-fourth U.
S. Infantry (colored) stnrtcd raco riot at
Houston. Tox killing 15 whiles.
Sept. 22. Gov. J. E. Ferguson of Texas
found guilty of accepting Illegal profits
and impeached.
Nov, . Hylan elected mayor of Now
York; Socialists thoro 'and In Chicago
overwhelmingly defeated; woman suffrage
won In New York stato.
Nov. 23. Ton pollcomcn and a woman
killed by bomb In Milwaukee.
Dec. 17. IIoubo of representatives
ndopted Webb resolution for prohibi
tion constitutional nmendmont
FOREIGN
Jnn. 27. Prosldont Gonzales of Costa
Rica deposed by military and citizens.
March 4. Chlneso premier reslgnod be
causo President LI Yuan-Hung refused to
bteak relations with Germany.
March S. American mnrlnos wero land
ed at Snntlngo do Cuba and restored or
der. Rebels abandoned tho city.
March 16. Czar Nicholas of Russia ab
dicated. March 26. Republican government for
Russia Installed.
Juno 17. Irish Sinn Fein rebel prison
ers all released.
June 30. Hsuan Tung, Mnn elm empe
ror, announced his succession to tho throno
of China,
July 5. Civil war broko out In China,
July 10. Manchu restoration ln China
collapsed.
July 13. Chang Hsun's army surren
dered after battlo nt Peking.
July 25. Convention to draft homo rulo
constitution for Ireland mot In London.
Oct. 10. Prlnco Ahmed Fund mado sul
tnn of Egypt.
Dec. 9. Revolution ln Portugal; Sldonio
Pnes mado provisional president.
Dec. 17. Union government undor
Borden victorious In Canada election.
MEXICO
Jnn. 2. U. S.-Mexlco parloys ondod,
Carranza refusing to slgnbrotocol.
Torreon recaptured by Carranza forces.
Jan. 4. Villa defeated in big battlo at
Jlmlncz.
Jan. 15. Moxlcan-Amorlcan Joint com
mission formally dissolved.
Jan. 21. War department ordered moro
than 25,000 militia from border.
Jan. 27. President Wilson ordered with
drawal of American troops from Mexico.
Feb, 5. Gen. Pershing murched out of
Moxlco. '
March 11. Carranza olected president of
Mexico,
April 23. Villa's main army dofoatod by
Carrnnza forces at Bablcora.
Nov. 13. Villa troops captured OJlnngn
after hard fight
SPORTING
April 11. Basoball season opened.
May 28. Benny Loonard won world's
champion lightweight title from Freddlo
Welsh In New York.
Juno 9. University of Chicago won wost
ern lutcrcolloglnto conference moot
University of Michlguu ru-admlttod to
western lntorcolleglnto conference.
Juno 16. Earl Cooper ln a Btutz won tho
Chicago auto derby.
July 14. Francis Oulmet won western
amateur golf championship at Midlothian.
Aug. 24. C. II. LarBon, Waupacn. Wis.,
won Grand American Handicap at Chi
cago. Sept. 1. Mrs. F. C. Letts, Chicago, won
women's western golf championship.
Sept. 15. Jim Barnes won westorn opon
golf championship at Chicago.
Sept. 21.-Chlcago White Sox won Amor
lean Icaguo pennant.
Sept. 24. Now York Giants won Nn
tlonnl league pennant.
Oct. 15. Chicago Whlto Sox won world's
championship from Now York Giants.
Jan. 6. Earthquako ln Formosa killed
Jan. 11. Tremendous explosion wrecked
Canadian Car & Foundry Co. plant at
Klngsland, N. J.
Jan. 12. Du Pont Powder Co. plant at
Haskell, N, J., destroyed by explosions,
. Jan. 13. Colliery oxploslon in Fuihun,
Manchuria, killed 770.
Jan. 27. Two million five hundred thou
sand dollnr flro in business district of
Pittsburgh. Pa.
Feb. 2. Explosion and flro In Chicago
tenement killed 25.
Feb. 8.-Thtrty killed, 344 hurt in ship
explosion at Archangel.
Feb. 10. Four million aollr flro lo
DISASTERS
works of Union Switch company neat
Plttsburghi "
Feb. 12,-arect conflagration h tb
Piraeus. Grfeco; heavy lost of llfo.
Feb. 21. British transport Mendl mink
n collision; 625 South African laborers
lost.
March lL-Tornadp In east central In.
dlnna killed moro than 20.
haxSH .-Thirty-eight persons klite
and 200 injured when tornado wrccko4
suburbs and part ot city of New Albany,
April 10. Explosions In ammunition
plant of Russia near Chester, Pa., kilted
April 27. Explosion In Hastings . mine
near Ludlow, Colo., hilled 119 mon.
..,I,jyL21'-arottt nre ,n Atlanta, a.i lost
$3,500,000.
. May 2S.-Thlrty liven lost and great
damago dono by storm In ICAniru.
May 26. Tornadoes In central ntrnoU
killed nbout 150 and did millions of dol
lars' worth of damage.
May 29. Tornadoes In sou thorn nitnnlu.
Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama and Ar
kansas killed many persons.
June 7. San Salvador, capital of Sal
vador, and a numbor of surrounding town
destroyed by volcanlo eruption, earth
qunko nnd fire.
Juno 9. Moro than 160 men perished In
blazing mine at Butte, Mont
Juno 30. Water tank fell on whalebaek
Christopher Columbus at Milwaukee, kill
ing 13 nnd hurting many.
July 1. Niagara Gorge trolley car
plunged Into rnplds: 28 killed.
July 25. Mine oxploslon at New Water
ford, Cape Breton, killed 62.
Aug. 4. Mlno explosion at Ctoy, Kjr.,
killed 31.
Aug. 10. British Bteamor City of Athens,
carrying missionaries to Africa, sunk by
denting mlno; 19 lost.
Aug 13. Eighteen killed In trolley car
collision near North Brnnford. Conn.
Aug. 18. Largo part of Salonlkl, Greece,
destroyed by flro.
Oct. 2. Typhoon and flood at Tokiot
mnny killed.
Oct 0. Million dollnr fire In Guayaquil,
Ecuador.
Oct. 23. Groat floods In Natal, South Af
rica; thousand drowned.
Oct 30. Million dollar flro on B. & O,
docks nt Baltimore; soven persons killed.
Doe. 6. Explosion of French ammunition
ship In Halifax harbor killed 4.000 and
wreckod much of the city nnd suburbs.
Dec. 17. American submarine U-l
Bunk In collision; 19 lost.
NECROLOGY
Jan 10. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
Jan. 11. Sebastian Schleelngor, com
poser, at Nice.
Wayne MacVoagh, former U. S. attar
noy general, nt Washington.
Jnn. 16. Admiral Goorgo Dowoy af
Washington.
Philip Bollenu, palntor, in Now York.
Jan. 20. William do Morgnn. novelist
Fob. 7. Cardinal Dlomodo Falconio at
Paris.
Fob. 10. Al Hayman, theatrical pro
ducer. Fob. 11. Duke of Norfolk In London.
Fob. 18. Carolus Duran, painter, at
Pnrls.
Fob. 18. MaJ. Gen. Fredorlclc Funaton
nt San Antonio, Tex.
March 4. A. B. Wonzol, painter, at En
glewood, N, J.
March 5. Manuel do Arriago, format
president of Portugal.
March 8. Count Fordlnand Zeppelin, at
Charlottcnburg.
G. W, Guthrie, American ambassador to
Japan, at Toklo.
March 11. Congressman Cyrus Sulloway
of New Hampshire.
March 12. Walter Clark, American
landscape painter, ln New York.
April 2. Gen. Lloyd L.ico, diplomat and
ndltor.
April 8. Richard Olney, former secre
tary ot state, at Boston.
April 10. Congressman Henry T. Holge
sen of North Dakota, at Washington.
April 18. Gen. von Hissing, Gorman gov
ernor general of Belgium.
April 20. Davo Montgomery, actor, ln
Chicago.
April 21. W. H. Parry, member federal
trado commission, in Washington.
April 26. Bnron Hengclmucller von Hen
gevar, former Austrian ambassador to
U. 8.
May 10. Joseph Benson Forakor, form
cr U. S. sonator. at Clnclnnntl.
May 14. Joseph IT. Choato, lawyer and!
diplomat nt New York.
May 18. Bola L. Pratt, sculptor, at Bos
ton. May 19. Bolva Lockwood, -pioneer suff
ragist, In Washington.
D. W. Comstock, congressman from In
diana. May 22. Harry Lane, U, S. senator fronj
Oregon.
May 25. W. II. Miller, former U. 0. at
torney gonrnl, at Indlannpolls.
Juno 1. John C. Black, veteran banker
of Chicago.
Juno 3. Mrs. Matilda B. Cnrso, philan
thropist nnd tompcranco worker, at Parle
Hill. N. Y.
Louis Gathmann, Inventor, at Washlnff
ton, Juno E. D. W. Potter, evangelist, at
Chicago.
Juno 12. Mmo. Toroso Corowo, pianist.
In Now York.
.iuno iu. ut. itov. j, a. Aieiraui, i:ain
ollc bishop of Trenton, N. J.
Juno 17. Judson C. Clements, interstate
commerco commissioner, at Washington.
Juno 20. Dlgby Bell, Amcrlcnn come
dlnn. Juno 27. Col. Oliver Hasard Payne,
flnnncler. In New York.
Juno 30. William Winter, veteran dra
mntlo critic, nt New Brighton, N. Y.
July 1. William II. Moody, formor as
soclato Justice of Supreme court
July 2. Sir Hcrbort Beorbohm Tree,
British nctor, in London.
July 10. Col. B. B. Herbert editor Na
tlonal Printer-Journalist, of Chicago.
Herbert Kelcoy, actor.
July 15. Federal Judge F. M. Wright at
Urbnna. Ill,
July 16. Bo Sweeney, assistant secretary
of the Interior.
July 18. Archibald McLellan. Christian
Sclonco odltor, nt Brookllne, Mass. .
July 20. Prof. J. B. Carter, director of
tho American Academy of Rome.
July 21. Mnnton Marble, American putM
llclst. In England.
July SO. Gen. Hnrrlson Gray Otis, owne
Los Angeles Times.
Aug, 1. Jere J. Cohnn, voteran actor, at
Mnnrno. N. Y.
Dr. Simoon Gilbert, veteran church Jour
nal editor, In Chicago.
Aug. 2. Raphael Klrchner, portrait
pnlntet. In Now York.
Aug. 9. Rt. Rov. Nicholas Mats, Cath
olic bishop of Denver,
Aug 17. Former U. S. 8enntor John W.
Korn of Indiana at Ashevlllp, N. C.
Aug. 29. Earl Grey, former governor
general of Canada.
Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of the
American Collego ln Romo.
Sept. 12. Queon Eloanoro of Bulgaria.
Sept. 13. Henry E. Lcglor, public li
brarian of Chicago.
Sept. 16. Henry B. Brown, prcsldont of
Valparaiso university.
William F. Stono, collector of the port
of Baltimore.
Oct. 9. Il'issoln Komnl, sultan of Egypt.
Oct. 15. Don M. Dickinson, former post
master general, at Detroit.
Oct. 20. Rev. Thomas Spurgcon, tiotod
Lonilou preacher.
Oct. 21. U. S. Sonator Paul O. Huutlng
of Wisconsin.
Oct. 22. Robert FItzsImmons, former
heavyweight champion, nt Chicago.
Oct. 21. J. Carroll Bcckwlth, painter, In
Now York.
Oct. 28. Prlnco Christian of Schlewlg
Holsteln In London.
Oct. 29. Congressman Charles' Martin
of Chicago.
Oct. 30. Dr. 15. B. Andrews, educator, at
Interaction, Fla.
"Prlvote" John Allen, formpr congress
man from Mississippi.
Gon. Charles II. Grosvenor, former con
gressman from Ohio.
Nov. 3. Rear Admiral Rodgcrs. U. S. N.
retired.
Nov. ft W. II, Kendall. English actor
Nov. 11. LUtuokalanl, formor queen ot
Hawaii, at Honolulu.
Nov. 15. John W. Foster, formor secre
tary of stato, in Washington.
Nov. 17. Augusto Rodin, French sculp
tor. Nov. 18.-Gen. Sir Stanley Maude, com
mander of British army In Mesopotamia.
Nov. 30. W. E. Chandler, former secro
tary of tho navy.
Deo 8.-Dr. A. D. Mclvln. chlof of V.
S. bureau of animal Industry.
Deo. 12. Dr. A. T. Still, founder ot
osteopathy.
Doc. 16. Henry Clay Barnaboe, vet
eran comlo opera star.
Frank Ootch, termer wresUluj; chaai
Plou ot world.