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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. I. PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THIRD OF TH Aug. 1, 1010. Merchantman U-bout Dcutschlnnd leuves Baltimore home ward humid on first trip. Solium? hut tie continues. Russians In heavy hut tlo after crossing Stnkhod river. August 2. Russians within ten miles of Kovel. August 3. French reeupturo part of Floury, near Verdun. Sir Koger Casement hanged In London for par ticipation In Irish revolt. August 4. French tuke Thluumont, near Verdun. August 5. llrltlsh overwhelm Turks at llomanl, near Suez canal. August 0. Hussluns cross rivers Sereth and Oraherku and take six vil lages from Austrluus. August 8. Italians lake Gorlzlu brldgeheud and capture 10,000 pris oners. Husslan Generul Letehltzky takes two towns and many villages. August 0. Gorlzlu falls to Itulluns In great offensive. Austrluus near Stnulslnu withdraw on wide front. August 10. Hussluns take Stunlsluu. August 11. Allies seize. Dolrun in 15a lk un drive. August 18. Austrluus evacuate line of (he Strypu river. August 14. Hussluns cupture Tusto huhy. August in. Hussluns take Jublon itza, near Curpathlan puss. August 10. Allies tuke threo miles of trenches near the Somme. An nounced Hussluns have taken 358,000 prisoners since Juno 4, 1010, when drlvo began. August IS. Hussluns advance three miles Into Hungary. August 20. llrltlsh advance on 13 mllo front at Thlepval, near Sommo river. Allies attack: on 150-mllo front In Bulletins. Two British light cruis ers und one or two German U-boats sunk in North Sea battle. August 22. Announced big Husslan contingent has landed at Salonlkl. AugUHt 23. The Doutschlund reach es Bremen. August 24. Hussluns reeupturo Mush, Armenia. August 27. Roumunln declures war on Teutons and Invudes Trausylvanlu. Italy formally declares war on Ger many. August 20. Kaiser makes Von llln deuburg chief of staff of all German armies In place of Von Fnlkenhayn. August 81. noumahlnns cross Dan ube und occupy Hustchuk, Bulguriu. Austrluns full buck in Transylvania. September 2. Roumanians, far In Trunsylvunlu, take Hermunnstudt. ZcppcllhB raid Loudon and one Is brought down In llunies. September 3. Allies tnko threo vil lages on Sommc. Houmunluns enpture Orsovu, Austria. Germans and Bui gars Invado the Dobrudja. September 4. French tako live more villages on Somme; allies prisoners In two days, 0,000. September 0. Teutons tako Danube city of Turtukal and 20,000 Roumn nlaiiH. September 8. Houmunluns und Hus sluns drive foo buck a llttlo In Do brudja. September 10. Teutons tnko Hou nwinlnn fortress of Slllstrln. September 11. llrltlsh drlvo across Struma river In Bulkuus. September 12. Allies capture three- mile lino on Somme. Houmunluns over whelmed In Dobrudja. September 10. British tnko Ger mun Sommo positions on six-mile front. Uso "tnnks" for first time in warfare. September. 38. Allies tnko Fiorina, Mucedoulu. September 10. Serbs light their wuy buck outo their own soil. September 21. Hussluns und Hou munluns unuounco they havo thrown buck tho Invaders In Dobrudjn. September 22. Announced ullles took 55,800 prisoners In Somme battle, betweeu July 1 und Septomber 38. September 23. Houmnulans In Do brudja driven buck In disorder. Zep pelins lnvude Englnnd ; ono burned, an other captured. September 25. Allies ndvunco along 15-mllo front on Sommo. Venlzelos leuves Athens to lead revolt agulnst King Constuutlnc. September 20. Allies tnko Combles und Thlepval in Sommo buttle. September 80. Von Fulkenhuyn routs Houmunluns at Ilcrninnustudt, Transylvania. October 1. A Houmunlun nrmy crossed tho Danube. October .2. Another Zoppolln shot down near London. October 4. Mnckenseu drives Rou nianlun Invaders of Bulgaria buck to ward Danube. October 5. Houmunluns lieu across tho Duuube. Serbs cross Cenm river in drlvo on Monustlr. October 7. German submurlno U-53 visits Newport, H. I., ou mysterious mission. Sinks live ships off Nurra gunsett Light night of October 7-8. October 8. Houmunluns driven buck to Trunsylvunlu frontier. October 10, Houmunluns In rout flea through mountain pusses. October 11. Greece turns over her fleet to Frunco ou allies' demand. Ital ians, resuming CarHo drive, tako 5, 000 prisoners. October 22. Houmunluns lu Do brudja rotreut hastily. October 23. Teutons occupy Con (stanza, principal Houmunlun seaport. Germans throw Russians back across Nargyuvka river, October 24, Fronch tuke 3,500 prls a era at Verdun. 1 ' " ' ' E WAR October 25. Houmunlun city of Ccr nuvoda fulls. Defenders blow up great bridge across Danube. October 20. Light crnft clnsh In English channel. Six British drift-net bouts, a transport und n destroyer und one German destroyer sunk. November 1. Dcutschland renches Now London, Conn., on second trnns Atlnntlc trip with enrgo worth $10. 000,000. U-53 nrrlvcs in n German port. November 2. Germans evneunte Fort Vuux, at Verdun. Italians take 4,731 In new offensive. November 3. Italians take 3.405 more prisoners. November 5. Central powers pro claim kingdom of Poland. Italians announce, have taken 40,305 Auslrlans since fall of Gorlzla. November 0. Teutons driven back twelve miles In Dobrudja. November 13. British advance north of Ancre; take 3,300 prisoners. November 15. England announces food controller will he appointed. November 17. News received of wholesale deportations of Belgluns for forced labor lu Germany. November 10. Allies take Monastlr, Macedonia. November 21. Emperor Francis Jo seph of Austria dies und Charles Fran cis becomes ruler. Teutons take Crnl ova In drive on western Roumunln. November 23. Russian dreadnought Imperatrlta Marin sunk by Internal ex plosion ; 200 killed. November 21. Teutons capture Tur-nu-Severln und Orsovu from Rouma nians. November 25. Teutons cross Alt river und sweep rapidly through Rou maulii. November 20. Venlzelos party de clares war on Germany and Bulgaria. Teuton?. Invading Roumunln from north and south .form Junction. November 27. Teutons take Alex andria, Roiimanla. Zeppelins raid England ; two downed by gunfire. November 20. Bcutty replaces .TcllI coe In command of British licet. December 2. French and Oreoks clash In Athens streets. Teutons win great buttle for Bucharest. December 0. Bucharest falls. December 7. Lloyd George becomes premier of Great Britain. December 8. Twenty-seven thou sand Houmanlnns surrender. December 10. Doutschlund nrrlves home. December 12. Gcrmnny nnnounces she Is rendy for pence parleys. December 14. Russia oillclnlly re buffs Germun pence offer. December 35. French under Nlvelle tako 0,000 prisoners on seven-mile front nt Verdun. Nlvelle then leuves to becomo commander In chief of ull France's homo nrmles. Buzcu und ull Wnllnchln lost to Roumanians. December 38. Husslnn troops take over whole Roumanian front. December 10. Lloyd George tells commons Germans must mnko resti tution and reparation to get pence. December 20. Wilson sends notes to both sides In wnr nsklng their nlms. December 24. Swltzerlnnd ofllclally Indorses Wilson's plea for statement of wnr nlms. December 25. Teutons tako 0,000 Russians In Houmnnln. December 20. Gcrmnny replies to Wilson, suggesting pence conference, but not stating own war alms or terms of pence. December 30. Allies In reply to Ger man peace proposnl cull ofTer empty und Insincere nnil refuso conference. December 31. King Constuntlno of Greece tbunks President Wilson for his noto to tho belllgerepts. January 4, 1017. British transport Icemlu sunk by U-bont In Medlterni' nenn ; 350 lost. Janunry 5. House of representa tives rules committee begins Investlgn- tlon of Wnll street "leak" of Wilson peace noto news. January 0. Russlnns retrent across Sereth river In Roumunln. Jnnuury 8. Russlnns launch often slvo near Riga. January 31. Allies In reply to Wil son noto outline alms, but refuse to parley with nn unbeaten Germany. Jnnuury 17. Learn Gcrmnn raider Mocwo bus sunk 21 ships and seized three others lu South Atlantic. En tonto, In supplementary noto to Wilson, amplifies wnr turns. Jnnuury 10. British steamer Ynr- rowdnlo, Moewo's prize, reaches a Germun port with 4G0 prisoners. Jununry 22. Wilson makes his "peace without victory" address In sen ate, demanding United States enter world leuguo nt closo of wnr. January 24. After Initial successes, Russians are forced buck near Riga. January 25. Mine sinks British mix lllary cruiser Luurentlc off Irish const. Jnnuury 31, Gcrmnny declares ruth less submarine war, revoking ull pledges to tho United Stntos. February 3. United States severs diplomatic relations with Gcrmnny. President Wilson In address to sennto outlines crisis. United States seizes Interned Germun warships. February 4. Wilson usks neutrals to break with Germany, United States reservo lleet ordered lu service, February 5. Announced Amerlcnn senman was killed when German, sub marine shelled lifeboat of British steumer Euvestone. February 0. Learned Gcrmnny Is holding United States Ambassador Ge rard. Februury 7. British liner Cnllfor nlu, ono American aboard, sunk, un warned, off lrelund; 41 lives lost. Spain calls new U-boat decree unlaw ful. February 8. Germany tries to get Ambassador Gerard to sign a paper ro nlllrmlug Prussian treaties with tho United States, but he refuses. February 10. Gerard (lnully allowed to leave Berlin. Februury 12. Announced oillclnlly ijeiiiiiiiiy has axked puriey with Unit ed Htutes through Swiss minister ni Washington und been snubbed. Gor mnny masses five army corps to over awe Holland. February 13. British hem In Turks nt Kut-el-Amnrn, Mesopotamia. February 15. Germany relcnses Amerlcnn Vurrowdnlo prisoners. February 17. Leurn Germun em bassy gave orders for crippling of Ger mun merchantmen here before publica tion of ruthless warfare note. February 20. Austria backs Ger many In ruthless warfure. Food riots In New York, probably stirred up by German agents. Februury 22. Germany torpedoes seven Dutch ships leaving Falmouth In vlolntlon of her pledge. February 23. British stringently re strict Imports to tight submarine war. Februury 25. Germans make "stra tegic" retirement on Ancre front. Lu conla. British ship, sunk unwarned off Ireland; two American women killed. February 20. President usks con gress for authority to arm American nierchantcraft. British capture Kut- el-Amnru. February 28. Germany's plot to nlly Mexico and Jupan with her ugnlnst the United States nnd her promise of three Amerlcnn stutes to Mexico re- venled. March 1. President Wilson con firms story of Germun attempt to In cite Mexico und Julian. Tokyo de nounces plot. House passes bill to arm ships, 403 to 13. Mnrch 3. Hussluns tuke Hnmudnn, Persia, from Turks. Mnrch 4 President Wilson de nounces "willful men" in senate who filibustered against armed ship bill, killing If by ending of administra tion term. British take over 25-mlIo Somme front from French. President takes oath of olllce for second term. Mnrch 0. President's advisers tell him he has power to arm ships with out action of congress. Mnrch 7. Berlin admits sending In tercepted Zlmmermnnn noto to Mex ico. Mnrch 0. President culls extra con gress session for April 10. March 11. British enpture Bagdad. Russian revolution starts. Petrograd troops desert government. Mnrch 12. German U-bont shells nnd sinks United States merchnnt ship Algonquin without warning. Mnrch 14. China breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. March 15. Czar nbdlcntes. Mnrch 10. Grand Duke Michael of Russia renounces throne, bringing Homnnoff dynasty to un end. Duma In control. March 17. Germans begin big re treat on west front. Announced vote of Husslnn people will decide form of government. Mnrch 18. News received of sink ing of American ships City of Mem phis, Illinois nnd Vlgllnncla by U bonts; 22 men missing. Mnrch 21. Wilson calls on congress to meet April 2 Instead of April 10. Twenty lost when United States tanker Heuldton, bound for Holland, is sunk by U-bont In North sou. March 25. President orders partial mobilization of National Gunrd to pro tect property from Germun plotters. Nnvy ordered to get rendy. Mnrch 27. Fifteen thousand more Natlonnl Guardsmen called out. April 3. Wilson usks declaration of state of war by congress. Ger muns drive Russlnns across Stokbod river, taking n largo number of pris oners. April 4. Senate pusses wur resolu tion, 82 to 0. April fi. House pusses wur resolu tion 373 to 50. April 0. President signs congress resolution nnd proclaims state of wnr. Government takes over German liners. April 7. Cuba declares war on Ger many. April 0. Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. British storm VImy Ridge, taking 0,000 prisoners on first day of buttle. Wilson Joins light to raise new armies by universal Borvlce prin ciple. April 10. British prisoners nt Vlmy reach 11,000. Brazil brenks dlplo mntlc relntlons with Germnny, Brit ish advance 50 mites beyond Bagdad. April 11. Herbert O. Hoover, ac cepts offer to direct food supplies of United States. April 13. British cut Into ninden burg line. President defines wur zone off const. April 14. House pusses seven bil lion wur loan bill. April 15. Wilson calls on nation to support him In war. April 10. French In 25-mllo of fensive toward the "Lndles Ronrd" nnd lu Chnmpngno tnko 10,000 prisoners first day, April 17. Big wnr Credit pusses sen ate. Germun wounded die when U-boats sink British hospital ships Donegal nnd Lunfrnno without warning. April 18. French prisoners In new offensive total 17,000. April 10. Fight Is started for pro hibition during wur. American freight er Mongollu sinks a U-boat the first American victory of tho wur. April 20. In confused night buttle of destroyers In English Channel Brit ish nnd Germun vessels lock, nnd crews fight with cutlnsses. April 21. Balfour commission from Great Britain reaches United States, April 24. French commission nr rlves In United Stutes. April 25. U-boats sink 04 British vessels In week, It Is announced, cnus Ing alarm In Britain. Wilson tells Bui four United States will not make a separate peace. United States makes first foreign war lonn $200,000,000 to Greut Britain. April 28. House votes conscription army bill, 897 to 24, und senate, 81 to X. Guatemala breaks oil leuiuoiis with Germany. April 20. Pctuln chosen to lend French armies In place of Nlvelle. J off re usks United Stntes army In France without delay. May 2. Announce first Liberty Loan bond Issue will be $2,000,000,000. Sec retary of Stnte Lansing wurns U-boat sinkings are serious. May 2. Russians nbnndon Mush, Armenia, to the Turks. Muy 3. News received of mistreat ment of Jews In Palestine by Turks. Muy 4. French tako Craonne from Germans. Muy 0. French In second buttle of the Alsne tuke 0,100 prisoners. Muy 7. Orders given to raise 11,000 engineers here for work in France. Muy 10. Criticul situation in Hus slu und civil wnr is feared. Muy 14. Greut Britain turns over to United States 1,024,500 tons of ship ping building for her here. May 15. New Itallnn offensive be gins. Muy 10. Announced squndron of Amerlcnn destroyers Is usslsting the British; U-boat losses sink to 20 in week. Muy 18. President proclaims con scription law, calling on 10,000,000 men, aged twenty-one to thirty-one yeurs, to register June 5. Itulluns announce 0,482 prisoners. May 25. Italy launches renewed Oorso offensive, tnklng 9,000 prisoners first day. Germun ulrplanes kill 70 persons in Dover nnd Folkestone. May 20. Germany announces she will sink hospital ships without warning unless they obey certain strict rules about the courses they tuke. An nounced Italy has captured 22,414 Aus trluns since Mny 14. June 3. Generul Chung Hsun named dictator by roynllsts of China. Juno 5. United Stntes registers for the army draft without disorder. Generul Bruslloff made head of Hus slnn nrmles. June 7. British blow up Messlnes ridge; explosion henrd In London; n,0(X) prisoners taken on first day of offensive. Juno 8. General Pershing, com mander of Amerlcnn expedition, ar rives in Englnnd. Secretary of War Baker plans for 100,000 American air planes. One hundred American nvlu tors urrlve In France. June 9. Wilson tells Russlu whut United Stntes is fighting for. Jupan offended by United States note urg ing China to maintain order. Juno 11. Lord Northcllffe, famous publisher, nrrlves to co-ordinute Brit ish missions In United Stutes. Juno 12. King Constantino of Greeco ubdlcntes in favor of his sec ond sou, Alexander, nt command of the allies. June 13. In greatest ulr raid so fur on London, 153 nro killed and 430 in jured. Pershing reaches Purls. Ellhu Root and American mission in Pe trograd. Juno 15. Liberty loan oversub scribed. Great Britain frees ull the Irish rebels. Juno 17. Doctor Ivors, who wrote Germnny's ofilclnl reply to the Bel gian utroclty chnrges, Is sentenced to nlno months' Imprisonment in Berlin for extorting $30,000 from the mother of a soldier by threats; evidence shows he Is n chronic drunkard and morphlno fiend. Duma demnnds lmme dlute offensive by Russlun troops. June 10. United Stntes Admiral Sims put in command of allied fleet off Ireland. June 22. Announced Liberty lonn subscriptions total $3,035,220,850. June 25. American Rod Cross cam paign closes, with subscriptions over tho hundred million dollars sought. Juue 20. Ofllclul Mesopotamia!! re port scores British civil and military leaders. Cnnudlnns within ono mile of Lens, great French coal center. Juno 27. Arrival of first United Stntes nrmy In France announced. June 28. Brazil Joins In wnr by nn- nulllug her decreo of neutrality be tween tho entento nations and Ger mnny. Juno 20. Greeco brenks diplomatic relations with the central powers. Juno 30. Russlnns begin big offen sive In Gnllcln. Wur Minister Ke rensky lends nttnek. Halg gains mile ou four-mile front before Lens. July 1. Wnshlngton nnnounces United Stntes Is ready to equip army of 2,000,000. July 2. Husslnn prisoners counted In her offensive number 10,273. Chlu cso empire re-established, July 8. Government tells of two submarine attacks ou transports bear ing Pershing's men; ono U-bont sunk. Russia nnnounces 0,000 more prison ers. Germans mnko vnln flve-mllo of fensive at Verdun. July 4. Eleven killed In Germun nlr ruld on Harwich, July 5. Republicans and monarch ists buttle 35 miles from Peking. July 0. Lenders of Germun spy sys tem In United Stntes nrrested. July 7. Twenty-two Germun Gotbn airplanes, mounting four guns each, raid London, killing 43 nnd Injurlug 107. July 8. Wilson orders export cm bnrgo on food, fuel nnd many other things to prevent supplies reaching Germnny. British foreign office stntes Germun crops this summer will not be nbovo 40 per cent of normal. United Stutes shipping board stutes expects to build 5,000,000 to 0,000,000 tons lu 18 months, Instead of the 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 originally aimed at. July 0. British dreudnuught Vnn gunrd blown up; all but two aboard killed. July 10. Germans lu sudden drive along seacoust bent British back to Yser river nnd cupture 1,250 men. Crisis over electoral reforms nnd war nlms' In Germuny. Hussluns tuke Hullcz, Gnllclu. seize town of Knlusz. July 12. Widespread labor disorders In West caused by Industrial Workers of the World; German agents suspect ed. Chung Hsun, leader of Chinese monarchists., files to Dutch legation lu Peking. July 13. British bring down 30 Ger mun airplanes on west front In big gest ulr buttle so fur. July 14. Chancellor Bethmnnn-Holl-wcg resigned nnd Dr. O. 13. Mlehuells succeeded him. Germans took French posts south of Courcy. House passed $040,000,000 aviation bill. July 15. French took Important hills positions from Germans south of Reims. July 10. Russians took Lodzlany from Austrlnns, but evacuated Kalusz. July 17. French look German trenches near Melancourt. Three members of Husslnn cabinet resigned; riots In Petrograd suppressed. Shake up In British cabinet. July 18. Increased activity on Rou manian front. Russians took part of Novlcu. July lO.v-Great German attack be tween Craonne and Ilurteblse partly successful. Chancellor Mlehuells de clared for submarine warfare. Rus sians driven back In Vllnn region. Teu tons mnko advances In Gullclu. July 20. Draft for Amerlcnn Na tional nrmy held. Premier Lvoff of Russia succeeded by Kerensky. Ger muny culled 2,000,000 of her youngest men to the colors. July 21. Senate passed food control find aviation bills. Russians In disor derly retreat, burning villages. July 22. Germun nvlutors raided Englnnd, killing 11 In const towns, but were driven uwny from London. Slam declared state of wnr with Germuny nnd Austrlu-IIungury. July 23. Kerensky given absolute powers as dictator of Russlu. Ger mans lost heavily in attacks along the Chemln des Dumes. July 24 Gocthuls, Denmtin und White out of shipping board ; Rear Ad miral Capps, E. N. Hurley and Bain-1 bridge Colby succeeded them. Mc- ' Adoo nsked congress for $5,000,000,000 , more for war. Russians evacuated Stunlsluu, their whole line periled. French defeated Germnns on Cruoune front. July 25 Division of trnitrous Rus sian troops blown to pieces by own nrtlllery ns pnrt of General Kornlloffs mensures to restore order. Lenine, Russian pucifist agitator, captured uf ter greatest mun hunt Russlu ever knew. 100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GREAT WAR June 28, 1914. Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria's throne, und wife assasslnnted at Serajnvo, Bosnln, by Slnv student, Princlp, giv ing the pretext for wnr. July 23. Austria delivers famous ultimatum to Serbiu, charging ussus- slnutlon plot wus hatched ou Serb soil. July 28. Serbia having ngreed to nil Austria demnnds snve one, Austria declures wnr. August 1. Germuny declures wnr on Russlu. August 3. Germany declares war on France und invudes Belgium. August 4. Grent Britain declures a stnte of war by net of Germany. August 23-24 Battle of Mons-Char- leroi ; Germans victorious. August 23. Japan at war with Ger muny. August 27. Germnns burn Louvaln, Belgium. August 29. Russians crushed In buttle near Tnnnenburg, Prussia. September 5-30. Germans turned bnck by French and British In tho battle of the Mnrne. September 32. Battle of tho Alsne begins. October 0. Germans cupture Ant werp. October 23-33. First bnttlo of Ypres. October 80. Russia declares war on Turkey. November 1. Germans Blnk Ad miral Crndlock's British fleet off Chili. November 10-32. Second battle at Ypres. December 3. Germun General Do Wet enptured, ending South African revolt. December 5. Serbians defeat Aus trluns. December 8. British sink German fleet off Falkland Islands. January 24, 3915. Naval bnttlo In No.rth sen; Germun cruiser Bluccher sunk. Februnry 8. Russians suffer sec ond grent defeat In East Prussln. Februury 37. Germnns begin sub murine blockade, despite American protest. Mnrch 22. Russlnns tnko Przemysl, Gnllcln nfter long siege. April 22. Gns first used In war by Germnns nt Ypres. April 25. Allies land nt Darda nelles. Muy 4. Beginning of great Germun offensive ugnlnst Russia. Muy 7. Lusltnnln sunk unwnrned by U-bont ; 1,000 die, of whom more thun 300 nre Americans. May 22. Italy declares wnr on Aus trln. June 2. Teutons retnke Przemysl August 5. Germans enpture Wur saw. September 1. Germnny promises United States 'to sink no more liners without wurnlng. September 8. Cznr succeeds Grand Duke Nlchclus In command of Russlun nrmles. September 15. Germnns capture July 11. hu.Hsi.tns Plnsk high tide In Invasion of Russia. September 24-25. Allies in drive in France capture 25,000. October 5. Allies Innd nt Salonlkl. October 0. Germans occupy Bel grade. October 10. Bulgaria attacks Sor bin. December 0. Germuny announces Serbia Is entirely conquered. December 10. Allies evacunte Gnl Upoll. February 14, 1910. Russlnns capture- Erzerum, Turkey. February 23. Germnns open Verdun offensive. April 18. Russlnns tuke Treblzond, Turkey. April 24. Irish revolt In Dublin. April 28. British besieged In Kut-el-Amnrn, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 30. Battle of Jutland ; 14 Brit ish nnd 18 Germun warships sunk. June 5. Lord Kitchener drowned pvhen cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed north of Seotlnnd. June 17. Russlnns retnke Czerno wltz, capital of Bukowlnn, In grent of fensive. June 20. Arabs rebel from Turkey, cupture Mecca; new kingdom estab lished. June 27. British nnd French In greut dlve In west. July 0. Submarine merchantman. Doutschlund reucbes Baltimore. July 27. Russians retake Brody, northern Gullclu. ' August 0. Italians take Gorlzla. July 10. Russians tuke Stnnlslnu, Gnllcln. August 28. Roumunln enters wnr.on side of the entente, and Invudes Trnn sylvnnln. September 0. Germany begins grent squeeze on Roumunln. November 10. First greut nlr but tle of world's history; 07 British, French nnd Gcrmnn airplanes brought down. I December 5. Teutons take Bu ' cbarest. December 11. Germany openly prof- I fers peace to her enemies. December 21. President Wllsoa asks both sides to define their wur nlms. Jununry 37, 3917. News received Germun cruiser Moewe bns taken 24 ships In South Atlnntlc. Jununry 22. Wilson nsklng "pence wlthout victory," demnnds United Stntes enter world league at close or war. Jununry 31. Germnny declures ruth less submarine warfare on all ships, whatever nationality, In the wnr zones- Februnry 3. United States sever diplomatic relations with Germnny. February 20. President nsks con- (rose fnr imtlinrlfv tn nrm nil A mnrl ' can vessels. February 20. British capture Kut- el-Amnrn. Februnry 28. Zlmmermnnn note- suggesting nlllnnce of Mexico und. .Tnpnn with Germany against United: Stntes made public. Mnrch 11. British cupture Bagdad March 13. Russian revolution stnrts March 15. Czar abdicates. March 17. Germnns begin blgr "strategic retirement" on west front. April 3. Wilson nsks congress to- declare n stnte of wnr with Germnny. tVprll 0. President signs congress; resolution proclaiming wur. April 7. Cuba declures war on Ger many. April 9. Austria-Hungary breaks- diplomatic relntlons with United Stutes. April 0. British storm Vlmy Ridge April 10. Brazil breaks diplomatic- relations with Germnny. April 10. French In grent offensive near Alsno river. April 10. Amerlctin freighter Mon golia sinks n submarine, this being the first Amerlcnn victory of the wnr. April 28. Both houses of congress pass selective draft nrmy bill. May 15. Big Italian offensive Int Carso begins. Juno 3. Chinese roynllsts nnmo- Chnng nsun dlctntor; Germnns nsslst plot. Juno 5. Americans register for nrmy draft without disorder. June 7. British blow up Messlne ridge; explosion heard In London. June 8. General Pershing reaches England. Juno 12. King Constnntlno of Greeco nbdlcntes; nation prepares to Join ullles. June 13. 153 killed, 430 injured la London by German nlrplnne raid. Juno 15. United States Liberty Loon closes, with billion oversub scription. June 27. Announce arrival of first American nrmy In France. June 28. Brazil Joins In war. June 30. Russlnns begin big offen sive In Gnllcln led by Wnr Minister Kerensky in person. July 2. Chinese empire declnred re established; republicans prepure to re sist. July 7. Twenty-two Germnn alr plnnes of Immense new typo kill 43, Injure 307, In London. July 8. Wilson orders export em bargo. July 32. Chinese empire falls; Chung Hsun flees to Dutch legntlon In Peking. July 33. In biggest ulr battle so far British clnlm downing of 80 Germnn planes on west front. July 34. Von Bethmann-nollweg, Germnn Imperial chancellor, resigns; and the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg: Mlchaells In his place. July 39. Russlnns In Gnllcln mu tiny nnd tire routed by Germnns. July 20. Draft for American Na tlonnl nrmy held. July 20. Premier Lvoff of Russia resigns and Kerensky succeeds him. July 21. United Stutes Semite pusses food control nnd $040,000,000' avlutlon bills. a