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Show striking hvemtb of I; SECOND YKMM OF WAR j Aug. 1. Teutons take Lublin. j;' Aug. 2. Teutons take Cholm; announce 170,000 Russians captured in July. Aug. 6. Germans capture Warsaw. Aug. 7. Teutons take Ivangorod. ;i Aug. 9. Germans take Serock. ;: Aug. 10. Great Britain starts register of all men. ! Aug. '11. Germans take Lomza. 1; Aug. 12. Allies land 50,000 more men on Gallipoli. !; Aug. 14. Germans take Siedlce and Sokolow. Aug. 16. Teutons start Belgrade bombardment. !; Aug. 19. Russians lose Kovno. Zeppelins kill ten ! in London suburbs. i Aug. 20. U-boat sinks liner Arabic; two Americans killed. ! Aug. 21. Germans seize Novo Georgievsk. ! Aug. 24. Germans capture Ossowiec. !; Aug. 25. Germans take Kovel. ; Aug. 27. Brest-Litovsk falls. '', Aug. 28.- Germans take Olita. '; Aug. 29. Teutons cross Zlota Lipa. I Sept 2. Germany announces 1,100,000 Russians cap- l tared since May 1. Lutsk is taken. New York ster- ',' ling exchange drops to 4.50. Sept. 3. Russians lose Brody. Sept. 4. Russians give up Grodno. British slaugh- tered in attempt to storm Hill 70. ' Sept. 6. Hesperian torpedoed; two Americans . I killed. Russians check Teutons on the Dvina and Sereth ! rivers. Sept. 7-8. Two Zeppelin raids on London; thirty killed. Sept.' 8. Czar Nicholas takes command of all the . Russian armies in tho field. Sept. 10. As Teutons take Dubno, czar wins vic- I; tory near Tarnopol and TremhowMa. !; Sept. 12. Russians ' drive Teutons back fourteen !; miles in Galicia. i ! Sept. 17. Von Mackensen seizes Pinsk. !; Sept. 20. Germans take Vilna. !; Sept. 26. Russians recapture Lutsk. !' Sept. 27. French, in two days' battle, advance on wide front in Champagne, while British attack south ! of La Bassee canal. ; Oct. 2. Germans announce 95,000 Russians were captured in September. Oct. 5. Germans estimate allied loss in futile west ; front offensive at 190,000 men. Oct. 7. Bulgaria sends ultimatum to Serbia. !; ' Oct. 8. Teutons begin great invasion of Serbia. !; Oct. 10. Teutons occupy Belgrade. Oct. 13. Bulgaria invades Serbia at three points. Fifty-five killed by Zeppelin raid on London. ; ' Oct. 20. Russians recapture Czartorysk. Serbians ;' lose Vranja. Oct. 22. Brand Whitlock, United States minister to Belgium, reports hurried execution of Edith Cavell, !; English nurse. !; Oct. 25. Bulgarians capture Uskub. !; Oct. 25. Germans storm TJlluxt. Oct. 28. Bulgarians and Teutons effect junction In Serbia. ! Nov. 2. Austro-Germans take Kragujevac. !; Nov. 4. First of German "do meat,J days. !; Nov. 7. Bulgarians take Nish, Serbian war capital. !' Nov. 10. Italian liner Ancona sunk with large loss of life. !; Nov. 22. Serbian3 begin retreat into. Montenegro. !; Nov. 25. British defeated eighteen miles from ; Bagdad. ' Nov. 27. Italians land, at Avlona, Albania. ' Nov. 29. Germans announce operations against Ser- !j bia have ended in complete success. I; Dec. 7. New war council, with all allies represented, i meets at Paris. Dee. 10. German chancellor makes peace bid in Reichstag speech. ;! Dec. 10. Turks begin siege of Kut-el-Amara. ;! Dec. 16. Sir Douglas Haig assumes command of ; British in France. ; Dec. 20. Ford peace band reaches Christiania with ! delegates quarreling. I; , Dec. 21. Lloyd-George declares British face defeat . unless greater efforts are made. ;! Dec. 28. Lloyd-George threatens to resign unless ', conscription is adopted. ;! Dec. 31. Italians occupy Durazzo, Albania. ;! Jan. 2, 1916. "Word received liner Persia sunk in ; Mediterranean; two Americans lost. ' Jan. 4. Germans abandon Cameroon colony, West !j Africa. Russians take Czernowitz. ' Jan. 6. Conscription bill passes first reading in S House of Commons. ;: Jan. 7. British complete evacuation of Gallipoli. !; Jan. 8. Russians take Czartorysk. !; Jan, 20. Zeppelins kill twenty-three in Paris. Ger- mans take two miles of trenches at Peronne. S Feb. 1. Zeppelins raid Liverpool and other British cities; kill fifty-nine. l' . F?- 2. Germans bring British prize steamer Appam ; into Hampton Roads. ;! Feb. 17. Russians capture Erzerum. Feb. 21. German drive at Verdun begins. Feb. 23. Czar visits Duma for first time in history. Yob. 24. Germans announce two-mile advance at ! Verdun. Feb. 27. Germans capture Fort Douauniont, Verdun. Austrians capture Durazzo. Russians take Kermanshah. March 4. Russians take Bitlis by storm. March 6. The Moewe, German raider, reaches home ;! port. Zeppelins kill thirteen in England. March 7. Germans take Forges, near Verdun. March 10. Germany declares war on Portugal. ; March 1 1. Believing force repulsed seven miles from Kut-el-Amara. !; March 25. Channel steamer Sussex destroyed by submarine; 235 killed; several Americans injured. ! April 1. Germans capture Malaneourt, near Verdun. April 2. Zeppelin destroyed on British coast after !; killing twenty-eight. Germans take Vnux. ; April 6. Germans make fifth vZeppelin raid in six ', days on British coast. April 7. Germans capture Haucourt. ; April 19. Russians capture Trebizond, on Black sea. ; April 21. First Russian contingent disembarks in ',- France. , ; April 25. Sir Roger Casement, Irish plotter, cap- tured attempting to land in Ireland from submarine. i April 26. Irish revolutionists seize Dublin. ; April 29. British battleship Russell sunk by mine in v Mediterranean. April 30. British in Kut-el-Amara capitulate. May 1. British announce Irish revolt is quelled. May 6. Germany in note, agrees to modify sub- ! marine warfare. Allied warships bring down two Zep- ', pelins. ' May 20. Austrians drive into Italy near Lake Garda. i May 21. Austrians announce capture of 13,000 Italians. - ! May 22. Cossacks from Russian army in Asia Minor !; join British in Mesopotamia. May 26. Compulsion bill signed by King George. May 26. Austrians advance in Italy, taking 24,000 ',' prisoners. June 1. Russians begin great offensive against Aus- trians. June 3. Greatest naval battle in history off Skag- ' errak. Both ides claim victory. June 6. Russians announce capture of 13,000 Aus: ! trians. ; June 7. Kitchener and staff drown when cruiser 1 Hampshire strikes mine north of Scotland. ; June 8. Germans capture Vaux fort at Verdun. Rub- ; siaus announce capture of 43,000 Austrians in three days. ' June 9. Russians take Lutsk. Greece disbands ' '. army at command of entente powers. ! June 10. Russians have forced back Austrians twenty-six miles. ;! June 11. Russians take Buczacz, Galicia. I; June 12. Russians take Dubno. ' June 13. Italians rally and check Austrian drive. ', Juiie' 19. Austrians evacuate Czernowitz, Bukowina ; capital. Juno 21. Allies in Paris conference agree on boy- ;! cott of Germany after the war. German reinforcements halt Russian drive in Volhynia. June 24. All Bukowina swept clear of Austrians ', by , Russians. ' June 25. Russians seize Kuty, fifteen miles from Kolomea. June 26. Russians capture Kimpolung, Bukowina. June 28. Italians recapture Corsiero and Posina. June 30. Russians in battle near Kolomea take 10,000 prisoners. !; July 1. Anglo-French. ''Big Push" on Somme be-gins. be-gins. 1 July 2. British and French continue " advance on !; Somme. j! July 5. Russian patrols cross Carpathians into ' Hungary. July 6. French take German second line south of v the Somme. Turks drive Russians from Kermanshah, Persia. 1 ;i July 9. British and French gain in west. Rus- ! sians advance toward Kovel. German submarine mer- ;! chantman Deutschland enters Chesapeake bay. July 10. Russians advance fifteen miles in Volhynia. ! ; July 11. French storm hill one mile from Peronne. Russians reach Stokhod river. 1 July 12. British capture German trenches on eight- !; mile front. ' July 13. Russians capture Mamakhatum, fifty miles -west of Erzerum. July 15. British announce advanca? of mile on four- ; mile front. . 1 July 16. Widespread peace agitation in Germany. Russians take Baiburt, Armenia. July 17. Russians capture 15,000 men. Force foe '' over Lipa river in Volhynia. y ; 'July IS. Great Britain publishes blacklist' of pro- ! German-American firms. , ; July 25. Russians capture Erzingan, the last re- ; maining stronghold of the Turks in Armenia. ' July 28. Russians capture Brody, key position on road to Lemberg, and take 9000 prisoners. . |
