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June 28 Amhiluke Ferdinand and
w+f<- asc-nssinated in Saralevo. Bosnia.
July 28- Austria-Hungary declare*
w n* or .Serbia. *
Aug 1—Germany declares war on
Russia and general mobilization **
t ruler way In France and Au^tria
Jb'pgary.
Aug. 2 -German troops enter France
Cirey: Russian troops eft ter Ger
many at Schwidden: German armyon
foiy Euxemburg over protest and Ger
many asks Belgium for free passage or
her Iroops.
Aug. 3 British fleet mobilizes: R*l
ciijm p.ijprnh) to Groat Britain for dip
lomatic aid and German ambassador
•units Paris.
Aug. 4 - -France declares war on Ger
man;. ; Germany declares war on Bel
gium Great Britain sends Belgium
•neutrality ultimatum to Germany;
British army mobilizes and stale of
war between Great Britain and Ger
many is declared. President Wilson
1*s i"s neutrality proclamation.
Aug. 5—Gormans begin fighting on
Beiruti; frontier; Germany asks for
help.
Auq. 6 —Austria declares war on
B us-in.
Ann. 7 -Germans defeated by French
m : A it.Kirch.
Amt. 3--Gern-ians capture Liege. Por
tugal announces It will support Great
Britain: British land troops in France.
Aug 10 France declares war on
A zuia-Hungary.
Aug. 12—Great Britain declares war
nr Austria-Hungary; Montenegro de
ciuies war on Germany.
A.uj. 15—Japan sends ultimatum to
Germany to withdraw from Japanese
rod Chinese waters and evacuate FCiao
cliuwchow; Russia offers autonomy to
I'"-a nil.
Aug. 20 German army enters Brus
SCI s.
Aug. 23 -Japan declares war on Ger
many Russia victorious in battles in
E«Prussia.
Aug. 24- Japanese warships bombard
Ts ngtao.
Aug. 25 Japan and Austria break
diplomatic relations.
Aug. 28—English win naval battle
nver German fleet near Helgoland.
Auq. 29—Germans defeat Russians
at \ Bernstein: occupy Amiens; advance
f « T.a Fere, 65 miles from Paris.
Sept. 1—-Germans cross Marne;
bombs dropped on Paris; Turkish army
mobilized; Zeppelins drop bombs on
A'*J wern.
Sept. 2 -Government of France
transferred to Bordeaux; Russians
capture I^mberg.
Sept. 4—Germans cross the Marne.
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Mri pact tQ make no separate peace.
Sept. 6—French win bottle of Marne;
British cruiser Pathfinder sunk in
North by a German submarine.
Sept. 7—Germans retreat from the
Marne. *
Sept. 14—Battle of Alsne starts;
f!* : .'ni: u r ‘treat halted.
Sept. 15—First battle of Solssons
fought.
Sept. 20- Russians capture Jacoslau
and begin siege of Przemysl.
Or.t. 9*16—Germans capture Ant
werp.
Oct. 12 -Germans take Ghent.
Oct. 20 -Fighting along Yser river
begins.
Oct. 29—Turkey begins war on
3* das ia.
Nov. 1 - British cruiser fleet do
utroyed in action off coast of Chile.
Nov. 7—Tstngtao falls before Japa
a-.s-- 'roops.
Nov. 9—German cruiser Emden de
stroyed.
Dec. 8- German fleet destroyed in
baitle fo Falkland islands.
. Doc. 11—German advance- on War
saw checked.
Dec. 14—Belgrade recaptured by
tferbiana.
Deo. 16—-Germs n cruisers bombard
eg .-borough, Hartlepool, and Whitby,
on English coast, killing 50 or more
persons; Austrians said to have lost
upwards of 100,000 men in Serbian
dc.fr nf.
Dec. 25—Italy occupies Avlona, Al
bania.
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Jan. British battleship Formidable
Stink.
Jan, 8-—Roumania mobilizes 750,000
men; violent fighting in the Argonne.
Jan. 11—Germans across the Hawks.
JO miles from Warsaw.
Jan. 24—British win naval battle In
North Bea.
Jan. 23—Russian army invades Hu»
B«ry; German efforts to cross Aisne
repulsed.
Feb. 1—British repel strong German
attack near La Bassee.
Feb. 2—Turks are defeated In attack
cm Suez canal.
Fob. 4—Russians capture Tarnotv In
Galicia.
Feb. 8—Turks along Suez canal in
full retreat; Turkish land defenses Tit
the Dardanelles shelled by Rrltish tor
pedo boats.
Fab. 11—Germans evacuate Lodz.
Feb. 12—Germans drive Russians
from positions in East Prussia, taking
28,001 prisoners.
Feb. 14—Russians report capture of
fortifications at Smolnik.
Feb. 16—Germans capture Piock and !
Blelsk in Roland; French capture two
miles of German trendies in Cham- ;
pagne district. ,
Feb. 17—Germans report they have
taken 50,000 Russian prisoners In Ma
zttrian lake district.
Feb. 18—German blockade of English
and French coasts put into effect
Fab. 19-20—British and French fleets
bombard Dardanelles forts.
Feb. 21—American steamer Eveirn
mink by mine in North sea.
Feb. 22—German war office unoc.m- \
ecs capture of 100,000 Russian prisoners
In engagements in Masurian lake re
gion; American steamer Carib sunk by
mine in North sea.
Fab. 28—Dardanelles entrance forts i
capitulate to English and French. j
March 4—Landing of allied troops on
both sides of Dardanelles straits re
tetau. potted; German U-4 sunk by French
■Hrait destroyers.
March 15—Battle of Neuvj Chapeile
m begins.
§ March 14—German cruiser Dresden
sunk In Pacific by English.
March 18—British battleships frie
slttihle and Ocean and French battle
ship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles strait.
March 22—Fort of Przemysl surren
ders to Russians.
March 28—Allies land troops on Gal
lipoli peninsula.
March 25—Russians victorious over
Austrians in Carpathians.
April 8—German auxiliary cruiser.
Rrinz Eitel Friedrich, interned at New
port New*. Va.
April 16—Italy has 1,200,000 men mo
bilized under arms; Austrians report
complete defeat of Russians In Car- i
tea'h:sn campaign.
April 23—Germans force wav across ]
Tpres <iftii»5 and take 1,600 prisoners, j
April 25—Allies stop German drive
on Ypres line in Belgium.
April 29—British report regaining of
two-tbirds of lost ground in 4 pres
battle.
May 7 Lin-r Lusitania torpedoed
and sunk by German submarine off the
coast of Ireland with the loss of more
than 1,000 lives. 102 Americans.
May 9 French, advance two and
one-half miles against German forces
north of Arms, taking 2.000 prisoners.
May 23 -Italy declares war on Aus
tria.
June 3 Germans recapture Pr/e
mysl with Austrian help.
Juno 18- -British suffer defeat north
of La Bassee canal.
June 28— Italians enter Austrian ter
ritory south of ltiva nn western shore
of Lake Garda.
July 3 To’mlno falls Into Italian
hands.
July 9--British make gains north of
Ypres and French retake trenches in
the Vosges.
July 13 Germans defeated in the
Argon ne.
July 29 -Warsaw evacuated; I.u'.din
captured by Austrians.
Aug. 4- Germans occupy Warsaw.
Aug. 14 -Austrians and Germans
concentrate 400,000 soldiers on Serbian
frontier.
Aug. 21 Italy declares war on Tur
key.
Sapt. 1 Ambassador Berr.stnrff an
nounces Germans will sink no more
liners without warning.
Sept. 4 German submarine torpe
does liner Hesperian.
Sept. 9 -Germans make air raid on
London, killing 20 persons and wound
ing 100 others; United States asks
Austria to recall Ambassador Dumba.
Sept. 20 Germans begin drive on
Serbia to open route to Turkey. ,
Sept. 22 Russian army retreating
from Vilna, escapes German encircling
movement.
Sept. 25-30 -Battle of Champagne,
resulting in great advance for allies'
armies ami causing Kaiser William to
rush to ihe west front; German coun
ter attacks repulsed.
Oct. 5—Russia and Bulgaria sever
diplomatic relations; Russian, French.
British, Italian and Serbian diplomatic
representatives ask for passports in
Sofia.
Oct. 10— Genera! Mackensen's forces
take Belgrade.
Oct. 12—Edith Cavelio executed by
Germans.
Oct. 13 Bulgaria declares war on
Serbia.
Oct. 15 —Great Britain declares war
on Bulgaria.
Oct. 16 France declares war on
Bulgaria.
Oct. 19 Russia and Italy declare
war on Bulgaria.
Oct. 27—Germans join Bulgarians In
northeastern Serbia and open way to
Constantinople.
Oct. 30 -Germans defeated at Mt
tau.
Nov. 9 Italian liner Ancona tor
pedoed.
Dec. 1--British retreat from near
Bo gdad.
Dec. 4 Ford "peace party" sails for
Europe.
Dec. $-9 Allies defeated in Macedo
nia.
Dec. 15 - Sir John Douglas Haig suc
ceeds Sir John French as chief of
English armies on west front
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Jan. 8—British troops at Kut-el-Am
ara su non ruled.
Jan. 9—British evacuate Gallipoli
peninsula.
Jan. 13—Austrians' capture Cetinjc,
capital of Montenegro.
Jan. 23—Scutari, capital of Albania,
captured by Austrians.
Feb. 22—-Crown prince's army begins
attack on Verdun.
March 8—Germany declares war on
Portugal.
March 15-— Austria -Hungary declares
war on Portugal.
M arch 24—Steamer Sussex torpedoed
nnd sunk.
April 18—President ■ Wilson sends
note to Germany.
April 19*— President Wilson speaks to
congress, explaining diplomatic situa
tion.
April 24- -Insurrection in Dublin.
April 29—British troop3 at Kut-el
Amarn surrender to Turks.
April 30—Irish revolution suppressed.
May 3—Irish leaders of insurrection
exec u ted.
May 4—Germany makes promise to
change methods of submarine warfare.
May 13 —Austrians begin great offen
sive against Italians in Trentino.
May 31—Great naval battle off Dan
lsh coast. (Battle of Jutland.)
June 5.—Lord Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire.
June 11—Russians capture Dubno.
June 29—Mir Roger Casement sen
tenced to be hanged for treason.
July 1—British nnd French begin
great offensive on the Somme.
July 6—David Lloyd George appoin
ted secretary of war.
July 9—German merchant subma
rine Deutschland arrives at Baltimore.
July 23—General Kuropatkin's army
wins battle near Riga...
July 27—English take Delville wood;
Serbian forces begin attack on Bulgars
in Macedonia.
Aug. 2—French take Floury.
Aug. 3—Sir Roger Casement executed
lor treason.
Aug. 4—French capture Thinumont
for fourth time; British repulse Turk
ish attack on Suez canal.
Aug. 7—Italians on Isonzo front cap
ture Monto Sabotino and Monte San
Michele.
Aug. 8—Turks force Russian evacu
tion of Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. 9—Italians cross Tsorizo river
and occupy Austrian city of Goeritz.
Aug. 10—Austrians evacuate Stanis
lau; allies take Doiran. near Saloniki,
from Bulgarians.
Aug. 13—German submarines sink
British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth.
Aug. 24—French occupy Maurepas,
north of the Somme; Russians recap
ture Musli in Armenia.
Aug. 27—Italy declares war on Ger
many; Roumania enters war on side
of allies.
Aug. 29—Field Marshal Von Hlnden
hurg made chief of staff of German
armies, succeeding General Von Fal
kenha yn.
Aug. 30—Russian armies seize all five
passes in Carpathians into Hungary.
Sept. 3—Allies renew offensive north
of Homme; Bulgarian and German
troops invade Dobrudja, in Rumania.
Sept. 7—Germans and Bulgarians
capture Rumanian ortress of Tutra
kan; Rumanians take Orsova, Bulgar
ian city.
Sept. 10—Gorman-Bulgarian army
captures Rumanian fortress of Silis
tria.
Sept. 14—British for first time use
"tanks."
Sept. 15—Italians begin new offen
sive on-Carso.
Oct. 2--Rumanian army of invasion
in Bulgaria defeated by Germans and
Bulgarians under Von Mackenscn.
Oct. 4-- German submarines sink
French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner
I Franconia.
Oct. 4 -German submarines sink
j six merchant steamships off Nantuek
| et. Mass.
! Oct. 11 Greek seat-oast forts dls
, mantled and turned over to allies on
demand of H'ng’and and France.
Oct. 23 -German-Rulgar armies cap
ture I’onHtaiiT.a, Rumania.
Oct. 24 French win back Douau
mont, Thiamont Held work, Haudro
rnont quarries and Caillette wood near
Verdun, in smash of two miles
Nov. 1 Italians, in new offensive on
the Carso plateau, capture S.000 Aus
trians.
Nov. 2—Germans evacuate Fort Vaux
at Verdun.
Nov. 5 Germans and Austrians pro
claim new kingdom of Poland, of ter
ritory captured from Russia.
Nov. 6 Submarine sinks British
passenger steamer Arabia.
Nov. 7 -Cardinal Meroier protests
against German deportation of P.el
glans; submarine sinks American
steamer Columbian.
Nov. 8- Russian army invades Tran
sylvania. Hungary.
Nov. 9 -A lSlro-Gennnn armies de
feat Russians in Voll^*nla end take
1.000 prisoners.
Nov. 13- British launch new ■ i-'T-n
sivo in Somme region on both sides of
Am re.
Nov. 14 -British capture fortified vil
lage of Beaucort. near the Ancre.
Nov. 19— Serbian, French and Rus
sian troops recapture Monastlr: tier
mans cross Transylvania Alps and en
ter western Rumania.
Nov. 21 British hospital ship Bri
tannic sunk by mine in Ae'gean sea.
Nov. 23 -Rumanian army retreats 60
miles from Bucharest.
Nov. 24—Germnn-Bulagrlan armies
take Orsova ond Tumu-Severin from
Rumanians.
Nov. 25—Greek provisional govern
menf declares war on Germany and
Bulgaria.
Nov. 28 - Rumanian government
abandons Bucharest and moves capi
tal to Jassy.
Dec. 6—-Premier Herbert Asquith, of
England, resigns.
Dee. 7—David Uoyd George accept*
British premiership.
Dec. 8 -Gen. Von Maekenson rap
tuers big Rumanian army in Prohova
valley.
Dec. 12—Chancellor Von Rethmann
1 Hollweg announces in reiehstag that
Germany will propose peace; new cab
inet In France under Aristide Briand as
premier, and Gen. Robert Georges Nl
velle given chief command of French
army.
Dec. 18— French at Verdun win two
miles of front and capture 11,000.
Doc. 19—I.loyd George declines Ger
man peace proposals.
Dec. 23 Baron Burlan succeeded as
minister of foreign affairs in Austria
by Count Czernin.
Dec. 26—Germany proposes to Pres
ident Wilson “an immediate meeting
of delegates of he belligerents.'
Dec. 27 -Russians defeated in live
day battle in eastern Wallachia, Ru
mania.
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Jan. 1—Submarine sinks British
transport Ivernil.
Jan. 9—Russian premier. Trepoff. re
signs. Golitzin succeeds him.
Jan. 31—Germany announces unre
stricted submarine warfare.
Feb. 3—President Wilson reviews
submarine controversy before con
gress; United States severs diplomatic
relations with Germany; American
steamer Ilousatonic sunk without
warning.
Feb. 7—Senate indorses president’s
act of breaking off diplomatic relations.
Feb. 12—United States refuses Ger
man request to discuss matters of dif
ference unless Germany withdraws un
restricted submarine warfare order.
Feb. 14—Von Bernstorff sails for
Germany.
Feb. 26— British under General
Maude capture Kut-el-Amara; subma
rine sinks liner I.aconia without warn
ing; many lost, Including two Amerl- '
cans.
F<0>. 26 -President AVllson asks con
gress for authority to arm American
inerchantships.
Feb. 28-^Secretary Banning makes
public Zimmerman note to Mexico, pro
posing Mexlcan-Japanese-German alli
ance.
March 9 President Wilson calls ex
tra session of congress for April 16.
March 11— British tinder General
Maude capture Bagdad; revolution
starts In Petrograd.
March 15—Czar Nicholas of Russia
abdicates.
March 17—French and British cap
ture Bapaume.
March 18—New French ministry
formed by Alexander Ribot.
March 21—Russian forces cross Per
sian border into Turkish territory:
American oil steamer Healdton torpe
doed without warning.
March 22—United Stales recognizes
new government of Russia.
M arch 27 General Murray's British
expedition into the holy lund defeats
Turkish army near Gaza.
Apr I 2 -President Wilson asks con
gress to declare that acts of Germany
constitute a state of war; submarine
sinks American steamer Aztec without
warning.
April 4 -United States Senate passes
resolution declaring a state of war ex
ists with Germany.
April 6— House passes war resolution
and President Wilson signs joint reso
lution of congress.
April 8—Austria declares severance
of diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9 -British defeat Germans at
Vimy Ridge and take 6,000 prisoners.
Unite.d States seizes 14 Austrian in
terned ships.
April 20 -Turkey severs diplomatic
relations with the United States.
April 28 Congress passes selective
service act for raising of army of
300.000; Guatemala severs diplomatic
relations with Germanv.
May 7—War department orders rais
ins of nine volunteer regiments of en
gineer* to go to France.
May 14—Espionage act becomes lnw
by Hashing Senate.
May 18—President Wilson signs se
lective service act. Also directs expe
ditionary force of regulars under Gen
eral Pershing to go to France.
May 19 Congress passes war appro
priation bill of $3,000,000,000,
June 5—Nearly 10.000,000 men In
IT jilted States register for military
service.
June t2—King Constantine of Greece
abdicates.
June 13—General Pershing and staff
arrive in Paris.
June 15—First Liberty loan closes
with larcre oversubscription.
Jure 26 First contingent American
troops under General Sibert arrives in
France.
June 29—Greece severs diplomatic re
lations with Teutonic allies.
July 9—President Wilson drafts state
j militia into federal service. Also places
i food and fuel under federal control.
July 13—War department order drafts
07*009 men into military service.
of $640,000,000 passes House; Chancel
lor Von Bothmami-Hollweg’* resigna
tion forced by German political crisis.
July 18—United States government
orders censorship of telegrams and
cablegrams crossing frontiers.
July 19—New German Chancellor
MlchaelU declares Germany will not
war for conquest; radicals and Catholic
party ask pence without forced acquisi
tions of territory.
July 22—Siam declares war on Ger
many.
July 23—Premier Kerensky given un
limited powers in Russia.
July 28—United States war indus
tries board created to supervise expen
ditures.
Aug. 25—Italiar Second arm> breaks
through Austrian lino on Isonzo front.
Aug. 28—President Wilson rejects
I “ope Benedict’s peace plea.
Sept. 10—General Korntloff demands
control of Russian government.
Sept. 11—Russian deputies vote to
support Kerensky. Kornlioff's generals
ordered arrested.
Sept. 16—Russ', i proclaims new r«
pultile by '>".l • of Premier Kerensky.
S-'r • .'3 -General Haig advances
mb "Ugh Genian lines at Ypres.
■ 21—Gen. Tasker H. Uilss named
"f staff, United Stales army.
C-t. 16—Germans occupy islands of
i no and Adro in the Gulf of Riga.
Oct. 25—French under General Retain
uivnnee and take 12,000 prisoners on
Usne front.
Oct. 27—Formal announcement made
that American troops In France luu)
fired their first shots in the war.
Oct. 29—Italian Isonzo front collapses
an.I Austro-German army reaches out
posts of Udine.
Nov. 1—Secretary I-an-dng makes
public Hie Kuxburg "spurious verenskl”
note.
Nov. 9—Permanent interallied mill -
tary commission created.
Nov. 24—Navy department announces
capture of first German submarines by
American destroyer.
Nov. 28—lioishevikl get absolute con
trol of Russian assembly In Russian
elections.
Dec. 6—Submarine sinks the Jacob
Jones, first regular warship of Ameri
can navy destroyed.
Doc. 7—Congress declares war on
Austria-Hungary.
Dec. 8—Jerusalem surrenders to Gen
eral Allenbv’s forces
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Jan. 5—President Wilson delivers
speech to congress giving “14 points"
necessary to peace.
Jan. 20—British monitors win sea
fight with cruisers Goebeu and Bres
lau. sinking latter.
Jan. 28—Russia and Rumania sever
diplomatic relations.
Feb. 2—United States troops take
over their first sector, near Toul.
Feb. 6—United States troopship
Tusranla sunk by submarine, 12li lost.
Feb. 11—President Wilson. In ad
dress to congress, gives four additional
peaco principles. Including self-de
termination of nations; bolshevist de
clare war with Germany over, but re
fuse to sign peaco treaty.
Feb. 13—Boio Pasha sentenced to
death in Prance for treason.
Feb. 25.—Germans take Reval, Rus
sian naval base, and Pskov; Chancel
lor van Hertling agree "in principle”
with President Wilson's peace prin
ciples, in address to relchstag.
March 1—Americans repulse Ger
man attack on Toul sector.
March 2—Treaty of peace with
Germany signed by bolshevist at
Brest-Ui to vsk.
March 4—Germany and Rumania
sign armistice on German terms.
M arch 13—German troops occupy
Odessa.
March 14—All Russiun congress of
soviets ratifies peace treaty.
March 21—German spring offensive
starts on 50 mile front.
March 22—Germans take 16.000 Brit
ish prisoners and 200 guns.
March 23—German drive gains nine
miles. "Mystery gun" shells Paris.
March 24—Germans reach the Som
me, gaining 15 miles. American engi
neers rushed to aid British.
March 28—Germans take Rapaume.
March 27—< jermuns take Albert.
March 28—British counter attack
and gain; French take there towns;
Germans advance toward Amiens.
March 29—"Mystery gun" kills 75
church goers in Paris on Good Friday.
April 4—Germans start second phase
of their spring drive on the Somme.
April 10—Germans take 10,000 Brit
ish prisoners in Flanders.
April 16—Germans capture Messines
ridge, near Ypres; Boio Pasha exe
cuted.
April 23—British and French navies
"bottle up" Zeebrugge.
April 26—Germans capture Mount
Keramel, taking 6,600 prisoners.
May 5—Austria starts drive on Italy.
May 10—British navy bottles up Os
tend.
May 24—British ship Moldavia, car
rying American troops, torpedoed; 56
May 27—Germans begin third phase
of drive on west front; gain five miles.
May 28—Germans take 16.000 pris
oners in drive.
May 29—( Hermans fake Soissons and
menace Reims. American troops cap
ture Oantigny.
May 30—Germans reach the Marne,
56 miles from Paris.
May 31—Germans take 46,000 prls
oners In drive.
June 1—Germans advance nine
miles; are 40 miles from Paris.
June 3—Five German submarines
attack United States coast and sink
11 ships.
June 5—United States marines fight
on the Marne near Chateau Thierry.
June 9—Germans start fourth phase
of their drive by advancing toward
Noyon.
June 10—Germans gain two miles
United States marines capture south
end of Belleau wood.
June 12—French and Americans
start counter attack.
June 15 -Austrians begin another
drive on Italy and take 16,000 prisoners.
June 17--ltalians check Austrians on
I’iave river.
June 19 Austrians cross the Piuve.
June 22 -Italians defeat Austrians on
the Plave.
June 23—Austrians begin great re
treat across the Piave.
July 18—General Foch launches allied
offensive, with French, American. Brit
ish, Italian and Belgian troops.
July 21—Americans and French cap
ture Chateau-Thierry.
July 30—German crown prince flees
from the Marne and withdraws army.
Aug. 2—Soissons recaptured by Foch.
Aug. 4—Americans take Flames.
Aug. 5 American troops landed at
Archangel.
Aug. 7—Americans cross the Vesle.
Aug. 16—Bapaume recaptured.
Aug. 28 French recross the Somme.
Sept. 1 Foch retakes Peronne.
Sept. 12—Americans itunch success
ful attack in St. Mihlel salient.
Sept. 28 -Allies win on 250-mlle line,
from North sea to Verdun.
Sept. 29—Allies cross Hindenburg
line.
Sept. 30-Bulgaria surrenders, alter
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successful allied campaign In RatkaM.
Oct. 1 -l'Teiicli take Ht. Quentin.
Oct. 4 - Austria asks Holland to me
diate with allies for peace.
Oct. S—Germans start abandonment
of T.lile and burn Itouui.
Oct. #—Ge-mnny asks President
Wilson for armistice.
Oct. 7—Americans capture hills
around Argonne.
Oct. 8 -President Wilson refuses
armistice.
Oct. 9—Allies capture t'ambrnl.
| Oct. 10—Allies capture He Gateau.
Oct. 11—American transport Otranto
torpedoed and sunk; BOO lost.
Oct. 13—Foch's troops take t.aon and
t.a Fere.
Oct. 14—Britodi and Belgians take
Rcu lent: President Wilson demands
surrender by Germany.
Oct. 15—British and Belgians cross
J.ys river, take GJ.noQ prisoners nttd 100
guns.
Oct. 18—Allies enter I.ilic outskirts
Oct. 17—Allies capture I,tlle. Brugge*.
Zeebrugge, Ostend and -Oouai.
Oct. 18—GzechosSlovak* Issue dec
laration of Independence: Czechs rebel
end seize Prague, capital of Bohemia;
French take Thetdt.
Oet. 19—President Wilson refuses
Austrian peace plen and says Czecho
slovak statp must be considered.
Oct. 21—Allies cross Oise and threat
en Valenciennes.
Oct. 22—Haig's forces cross the
Scheldt.
Oct. 23—President Wilson refuses
latest German peace plea.
Oct. 27—German government asks
President Wilson to state terms.
Oct. 28—Austria begs "tor separate
peace.
Oct. 29—Austria opens direct nego
tiations wllh Secretary Hanging.
Oct. 30—Italians Inflict great defeat
on Austria; capture 3:1,000;«Austrians
evacuating Italian territory.
Oct. 31—Turkey surrenders: Aus
trians utterly routed by Italians; lose
00,000: Austrian envoys, under white
flag, enter Malian lines.
Nov. 1—Italians pursue benten Aus
trians across Tagliamentn river: allied
conference at Versailles lives peace
terms for Germany.
Nov. 3—Austria signs armistice
amounting virtually to unconditional
surrender.
Nov. 4— Allied terms are sent to
1 Germany.
■ Nov. 7—Germany's envoy* accept
armistice conditions.
Nov. 9—Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates
| and crown prince renounce* throne.
Nov. 10—Former Kaiser Wilhelm and
, his eldest son, Frederick Wilhelm, ilee
| to Holland to escape widespread revo
lution throughout Germany.
Nov. 11—Final signatures attached
and peace officially proclaimed.
AMERICAN NAVY HAS
FRENCH HEADQUARTERS
Army of Officers Constantly on
Job to Manage Vast Fleets
of Boats Coming and Going.
I
American Naval Base, France, -(by
mall.)—Here on this rugged Breton
coast thero is an American naval es
tablishment which is a sort of com
posite of the busy activity of the navy
department at Washington and of ono
of the big navy yards on the American
seaboard.
j Vice Admiral Wilson, commanding
the American naval forces in French
1 waters, has ills headquarters here, with
an executive staff quartered In one of
tile largest buildings of the city, front
ing ttie Place President Wilson. Amer
! lean bluejackets are on guard at ail the
entrances, and steady flies of Ameri
can naval officers and sailors crowd
the corridors on their various duties.
The streets are filled with American
sailors on 'liberty parties,” often 5,000
anil B,000 in a single party. And on the
1 water front there Is the hustle and ac
tivity of a huge navy yard, with
j scores of American naval craft and
1 transports lying in the harbor, and the
; shore alive with a vast naval installa
! tlon.
Besides the rush of the port Itself,
this is the naval administiation center
j for 300 miles of the French coast, dl
: vlded Into three districts, with a num
ber of the chief ports into which the
! masses of American men and material
are pouring.
I Aside from the American transport
fleet which comes and goes, there Is a
; standing personnel of officers and men
\ in these districts, with some 80 ships—
destroyers, repair ships, converted
yachts, mine sweepers and naval tugs.
The shore establishment is on the same
extensive sealer, witli nerdromes for
balloons and airplanes, great stacks of
coal and mammoth tanks for fuel oil.
Nava! headquarters is In constant
j wireless touch with the whole range of
, this naval activity, along the 300 miles
of front and far out to sea where the
j convoys are steadily moving In and
’ out. All the orders are iBSued here for
this Intricate movement, the meetings
at sea at appointed places—and the
zigzag routes which will cheat the hos
| tile craft lying off the coast. Front
outside In adquarters one sees the wire
less antennas stretching off tq>a near
| by church steeple, thus giving a great
sweep of wire for gathering the sound
waves. There is also direct telegraph
end telephone, so that If need be con
i versatlons may go on between the na
val chiefs and Amerlcun officers St
Paris or London.
I It Is a huge work this big establish
ment is carrying on. On the strictly
naval side are the defensive and offen
sive operations—defense of American
and other allied shipping hi «’>e vast
movement of men and mat- across
the Atlantic, and offensive in the war
of extermination being made against
enemy submarines.
| Outside of the naval operations,
there Is the steady march of a vast na
j val construction at all the ports along
this 300 miles of sea front, repair
plants, fuel stations, oil tanks, water
works. and all the requirements of a
constant!* expanding.
The Six Nations Indians of Canada
will appeal to the governor general for
an immediate lifting of the ban on In
dians who failed to register under the
Canadian national registration act.
Un registered Indians have been re
fused supplies at all the stores on the
reserve.
j First it was called Independence. Pa.
Then, when the fmne of the iron chan
cellor was at Its height, the German
population of the little town voted
prldefully to change its name to Bis
, inarok. Bismarck it remained qn'.ll
recently, when citizens forgot for all
time that they had once been German
and pledged themselves to battle
against the machine that Bismarck had
built up. The little town has a new
name now. It Is Quentin. Pa., in
honor of that son of a former presi
dent who died fighting in France.
"The most unpleasant feature of
German discussion of a league of na
tions is tiie sudden zeal of the most
notorious intriguers. If there are two
men in Germany who bring suspicion
on anything which they profess to rec
ommend for the good of the world,
they are surely Herr Kr-.berger and
Herr Hamburg," says the London
Timas
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EAT A TABLET!
DYSPEPSIA GONE
PAPE'S DIAPEP8IN INSTANTLY
RELIEVES 80UR, QAS3Y OR
ACID STOMACHS.
When meals hit buck and your stom
ach Is sour, acid, gassy, or you feel full
and blonted. When you have heavy
lumps of pain or headache from Indi
gestion. Here la Instant relief I
Just as soon as you eat a tablet or
two of Tape’s Dlnpepsln all the dys
pepsia, Indigestion and stomach dis
tress ends. Theso pleasant, harmless
tablets of Pape’s Dtapepsln never fall
to make upset stomachs feel fine at
once, and they cost very little at drug
stores. Adv.
BOYS GOT PRIZED PILLOWS
Bride's Idea That of All True Citi
zens—Nothing Could Be Toe
Good for the Soldiers.
They wore pillows like your moth
er’s and mine. The little bride had
made them and stuffed them to com
fortable popping with real goose
feathers.
She had raised the geese from (luffy
goslings and had picked them. No
penitentiary striped ticking was used,
hut n material of delicate blue, sprin
kle*! with pink rosebuds. Oh, but these
pillows were the pride of the home
loving heart of the little bride, whose
young husband Is "over there.” Yet
she sent the six pillows Inst week to
the sick soldiers at Fort Harrison.
"If Jim comes hack we can buy new
pillows," she said—-‘‘that la if We have
the money. If we haven't we can do
without.
"Oh, hut those geese wore a trouble,
hut when 1 think of n soldier’s head
resting on those pillows. I’m convinced
that the last pesky gosling has paid
for Its raising.”—Indlnnnpolls News.
Important to Mc'hers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that It
Bears tho s/1T'a'™ a
Signsturo of
(n Use for Over 30 Tears.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Comforting Message.
Mrs. Cassidy--Noruh Is Inkin' on nw
ful. ller husband’s got three years—
but he cun get wan off for good be
havior.
Mrs. O’Brien—Tell her to rest alsy.
Sure an' he may not behave himself.—
Boston Transcript.
Have a Clear Skin.
Make Cutlcura Soap your every-day
toilet soap and assist it now and then
by touches of Cutlcura Ointment to
soften, soothe and heal. For free
mmples address “Cutlcura, Dept. X.
Boston.” At druggists and by mall.
I Soap 2,5, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv_»
Its Object.
“About The Watch on the Rhine
now—•"
“It Is principally for air raids *hese
days.”
Logical Cause.
“What was the cause of that stage
wait?”
“It was on account of the heavy
man.”
SPANISH INFLUENZA
Do Not Fear When Fighting
a German or a Germ!
By Pit. M. COOK.
The cool lighter always vrlm and so
there Is no need to become panic
stricken. Avoid fear and crowds. Ex
ercise In the fresh air and practice the
three C’«: A Clean Mouth, a Clean
Skin and Clean Bowels. To carry off
the poisons that accumulate within the
body and to ward off an attack of the
influenza bacillus, take a good liver
regulator to move the bowels. Such a
one is made up of May-apple, leaves of
aloe, root of jalap, and is to be had
at any drug store, and called “Pleasant
Purgative Pellets.”
If a bad cold develops, go to bed, wrap
up well, drink freely of hot lemonnde
and take a hot mustard foot-bath.
Have the bedroom warm but well ven
tilated. Obtain at the nearest drug
store "Anurie Tablets” to flush the
kidneys and control the pains and
aches. Take an “Anurie” tablet every
two hours, together with copious drinks
of lemonade. If n true case of influ
enza. the^ood should be simple, such as
broths, milk.buttermilk and ice-cream;
but It !s important that food be given
regularly in order to keep up patient’s
strength and vitality. After the acute
attack has passed, which is generally
from three to seven days, the system
should he hullt up by the use of a good
Iron tonic, such as “Irontic” tablets, to
be obtained at some drug stores, or
that well known blood-maker and
herbal tonic made from roots and barks
of forest trees—sold everywhere as Dr*
Pierre’s Golden Medical Discovery.
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