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Show PRINCIPAL EVENTS THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR Aug. 1. 1910. Merchantman U-boat Deutschland leaves Baltimore homeward home-ward bound ou first trip. Somme battle bat-tle continues. Russians In heavy battle bat-tle after crossing Stoithod river. August 2. Russians within ten miles of Kovel. August 3. French recapture part of Fieury, near Verdun. Sir Roger Casement hanged in London for participation par-ticipation in Irish revolt. August 4. French take Thinuraont, near Verdun. August 5. British overwhelm Turks at Komuui, near Suez canal. August G. Russians cross rivers Sereth and Graberka and take six villages vil-lages from Austrinns. August 8. Italians take Gorizia bridgehead and capture 10,000 prisoners. pris-oners. Russian General Letchitzky takes two towns and many villages. August 9. Gorizia -falls to Italians In great offensive. Austrians near Stanislau withdraw on wide front. August 10. Russians take Stanislau. August 11. Allies seize Doiran in Balkan drive. August 13. Austrians evacuate line of the Strypa river. August 14. Russians capture Tusto-baby. Tusto-baby. August 15. Russians take Jablon-ltza, Jablon-ltza, near Carpathian pass. August 16. Allies take three miles of trenches near the Somme. Announced An-nounced Russians have tuken 35S.0O0 prisoners since June 4, 1916, when drive began. August 18. Russians advance three miles into Hungary. August 20. British advance on 11-mile 11-mile front at Thiepval, near Somme river. Allies attack on 150-mile front in Balkans. Two British light cruisers cruis-ers and'one or two German U-boats sunk in North Sea battle. August 22. Announced big Russian contingent has landed at Saloniki. August 23 The Deutschland reaches reach-es Bremen. August 24. Russians recapture Mush, Armenia. August 27. Roumania declares war on Teutons and Invades Transylvania. Italy formally declares war on Germany. Ger-many. August 29. Kaiser makes Von Hln-denburg Hln-denburg chief of staff of all German armies in place of Von Falkenhayn. August 31. Roumanians cross Danube Dan-ube and occupy Rustchuk, Bulgaria. Austrians fall back In Transylvania. September 2. Roumanians, far In Transylvania, take Hermannstadt. Zeppelins raid London and one is brought" down in flames. September 3 Allies take three villages vil-lages on Somme. Roumanians capture Orsova, Austria. Germans and Bul-gars Bul-gars invade the Dobrudja. September 4. French take five more villages on Somme; allies' prisoners In two clays, 6,000. September 6. Teutons take Danube city of Turtukal and 20,000 Roumanians. Rouma-nians. September 8. Roumanians and Russians Rus-sians drive foe back a little in Dobrudja. Do-brudja. September 10 Teutons take Roumanian Rou-manian fortress of Silistria. September 11. British drive across Struma river in Balkans. September 12. Allies capture three-mile three-mile line on Somme. Roumanians overwhelmed over-whelmed in Dobrudja. September 13 British take German Ger-man Somme positions on six-mile front. Use "tanks" for first time in warfare. oeyiemoer IS. Allies take Fiorina, Macedonia. September 19. Serbs fight their way "nek onto their own soil. September 21. Russians and Roumanians Rou-manians announce they have thrown " the Invaders In Dobrudja. September 22. Announced allies wok 55.S00 prisoners in Somme battle fetween July l and September 18. September 23. Roumanians in Do-Drudja Do-Drudja driven back In disorder. Zep-Peiins Zep-Peiins invade England ; one burned, another an-other captured. September 25. Allies advance along . niUe front on Somme. Veuizelos eaves Athens to lead revolt against MS Constantine. September 26. Allies take Combles M Thiepval in Somme buttle. Sepiember 30. Von Falkenhayn outs Roumanians at Hermannstadt, rrwsylvania. October i.a Roumanian army crssed the Danube. October 2. Another Zeppelin shot "'n near London. mn i br 4'" Muensen drives Rou- an invaders of Bulgaria back to-, to-, ,aru Danube. v tlin0'"31' 5-Io,lrnians flee across e Danube. Serbs cross Cerna river ln dr've o,i Jiouasllfc October 7. German submarine U-53 ?. ,us Newport, R. I., on mysterious " ss'on. Sinks five ships off Narra-Ensett Narra-Ensett Light night of October 7-S. ctober 8. Roumanians driven back Transylvania frontier. flee nbCr 10- Roumanians In rout ! through mountain passes. J "Ct.ober 11- Greece turns over her Ian Frauce allies' demand. Ital-"s. Ital-"s. resuming Carso drive, take 5,-m 5,-m Prisoners. October 22. Roumanians In Do-Dr Do-Dr retreat hastily. ' etan" 23--Teulons occupy Con- z. Principal Roumanian seaport. oans throw Russians back across aaryuvka river. " tot0bor 24--Frencn take 3,500 pris-at pris-at Verdun. October 25. Roumanian city of Cer-navoda Cer-navoda fulls. Defenders blow up great bridge across Danube n,ber, 2G.-Light craft clash ln Lnglish channel. Six British drift-net boats a transport and a destroyer and one German destroyer sunk November l.-Deutschland reaches New London, Conn., on second transfer!0 trans-fer!0 wlth cargo worth ?10.- 000,000. U-53 arrives in a German port. November 2.-Germans evacuate Fort aux, at Verdun. Italians take 4,731 In new offensive. November 3.-ItaIians take 3.495 more prisoners. November 5.-Central powers proclaim pro-claim kingdom of Poland. Italians announce, have taken 40,305 Austrian since fall of Gorizia. November 9. 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 be appointed. November 17. News received of wholesale deportations of Belgians for forced labor in Germany. November 19. Allies take Monastir, Macedonia. November 21. Emperor Francis Joseph Jo-seph of Austria dies and Charles Francis Fran-cis becomes ruler. Teutons take Craiova Crai-ova in drive on western Roumania. November 23. Russian dreadnought Imperatrita Maria sunk by internal explosion ex-plosion ; 200 killed. November 24. Teutons capture Tur-nu-Severln and Orsova from Roumanians. Rouma-nians. November 25. Teutons cross Alt river and sweep rapidly through Roumania. Rou-mania. November 26. Venlzelos party declares de-clares war on Germany and Bulgaria. Teutons Invading Roumania from north and south form junction. November 27. Teutons take Alex andria, Roumania. Zeppelins raid England ; two downed by gunfire. November 29. Beatty replaces Jelli-coe Jelli-coe in command of British fleet. December 2. French and Greeks clash in Athens streets. Teutons win great battle for Bucharest. December 6. Bucharest falls. December 7. Lloyd George becomes premier of Great Britain. December 8. Twenty-seven thousand thou-sand Roumanians surrender. December 10. Deutschland arrives home. December 12. Germany announces she is ready for peace parleys. December 14. Russia officially rebuffs re-buffs German peace offer. December 15. French tinder Nivelle take 9,000 prisoners on seven-mile front at Verdun. Nivelle then leaves to become commander ln chief of all France's home armies. Buzcu and all Wallachia lost to Roumanians. December IS. Russian troops take over whole Roumanian front. December 19. Lloyd George tells commons Germans must make restitution resti-tution and reparation to get peace. December 20. Wilson sends notes to both sides In war asking their alms. December 24. Switzerland officially indorses Wilson's plea for statement of war aims. December 25. Teutons take 9,000 Russians In Roumania. December 26. Germany replies to Wilson, suggesting peace conference, but not stating own war aims or terms of peace.- December 30. Allies in reply to German Ger-man peace proposal call offer empty and insincere and Refuse conference. December 31. King Constantine of Greece thanks President Wilson for his note to the belligerents. January 4, 1917. British transport Icernia sunk by U-boat in Mediterranean Mediterra-nean ; 150 lost. January 5. House of representatives representa-tives rules committee begins investigation investiga-tion of Wall street "leak" of Wilson peace note news. January 6. Russians retreat across Sereth river in Roumania. January 8. Russians launch offensive offen-sive near Riga. January 11. Allies ln reply to Wilson Wil-son note outline aims, hut refuse to parley with an unbeaten Germany. January 17. Learn German raider Moewe has sunk 21 ships and seized three others in South Atlantic. Entente, En-tente, In supplementary note to Wilson, amplifies war aims. January 19. British steamer Yar-rowdale, Yar-rowdale, Moewe's prize, reaches a German port with 409 prisoners. January 22. Wilson indices his "peace without victory" address in senate sen-ate demanding United States enter world league at close of war. - January 24. After Initial successes, Russians are forced back near Riga. January 25. Mine sinks British auxiliary aux-iliary cruiser Laurentic off Irish coast. January 31. Germany declares ruthless ruth-less submarine war. revoking all pledges to the United States. February 3.-United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. President Wilson in address to senate outlines crisis. United States seizes interned German warships. February 4. Wilson asks neutrals to break with Germany, United States reserve fleet ordered in service. February 5. Announced American seaman was killed when German submarine sub-marine shelled lifeboat of British steamer Eavestone. February C.-Learned Germany is holding United States Ambassador Ge- rnSbruary 7.-BrItIsh liner California Califor-nia one American aboard, sunk, un-w'u'ne un-w'u'ne 1. off Ireland; 41 lives ost. Spam calls new U-boat decree unlaw- February S.-Germnny tries to get A.LSX Gerard to sign a paper reaffirming re-affirming Prussian treat.es with the to leave Berlin. mMnllv February 12.-Announce? officially Germany has asked parley with United Unit-ed States through Swiss minister at Washington and been snubbed. Germany Ger-many masses five army corps to overawe over-awe Holland. February 13. British hem in Turks at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. February 15. Germany releases American Yarrowdale prisoners. February 17. Learn German embassy em-bassy gave orders for crippling of German Ger-man merchantmen here before publication publica-tion of ruthless warfare note. February 20. Austria backs Germany Ger-many in ruthless warfare. Food riots in New York, probably stirred up by German agents. February 22. Germany torpedoes seven Dutch ships leaving Falmouth in violation of her pledge. February 23. British stringently restrict re-strict imports to fight submarine war. February 25. Germans make "strategic" "stra-tegic" retirement on Ancre front. La-conia, La-conia, British ship, sunk unwarned off Ireland ; two American women killed. February 26. President asks congress con-gress for authority to arm American merchantcraft. British capture Kut-el-Amara. February 28. Germany's plot to ally Mexico and Japan with her against the United States and her promise of three American states to Mexico revealed. re-vealed. March 1. President Wilson confirms con-firms story of German attempt to incite in-cite Mexico and Japan. Tokyo denounces de-nounces plot. House passes bill to arm ships, 403 to 13. March 3. Russians take Hamadan, Persia, from Turks. " March 4 President Wilson denounces de-nounces "willful men" in senate who filibustered against armed ship bill, killing it by ending of administration administra-tion term. British take over 25-mile Somme front from French. President takes oath of office for second term. March 6. President's advisers tell him he has power to arm ships without with-out action of congress. March 7. Berlin admits sending intercepted in-tercepted Zimmermann note to Mexico. Mex-ico. March 9. President calls extra congress con-gress session for April 16. . March 11. British capture Bagdad. Russian revolution starts. Petrograd troops desert government. March 12. German U-boat shells and sinks United States merchant ship Algonquin without warning. March 14. China breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. March 15. Czar abdicates. March 16 Grand Duke Michael of Russia renounces throne, bringing Romanoff dynasty to an end. Duma in control. March 17. Germans begin big retreat re-treat on west front. Announced vote of Russian people will decide form of government. March IS. News received of sinking sink-ing of American ships City of Memphis, Mem-phis, Illinois and Vlgllancia by U-boats; U-boats; 22 men missing. March 21. Wilson cills on congress to meet April 2 Instead of April 16. Twenty lost when United States tanker Healdton, bound for Holland, is sunk by U-boat in North sea. March 25. President orders partial mobilization of National Guard to protect pro-tect property from German plotters. Navy ordered to get ready. March 27. Fifteen thousand more National Guardsmen called out. April 3. Wilson asks declaration of state of war by congress. Germans Ger-mans drive Russians across Stokhod river, taking a large number of prisoners. pris-oners. April 4. Senate passes war resolution, resolu-tion, S2 to 6. April 5. House passes war resolution resolu-tion 373 to 50. ' April 6. President signs congress resolution and proclaims state of war. Government takes over German liners. April 7. Cuba declares war on Ger many. April 9. Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. British storm Vlmy Ridge, taking 6,000 prisoners on first day of battle. Wilson joins fight to raise new armies by universal service principle. prin-ciple. April 10. British prisoners at Vlmy reach 11,000. Brazil breaks diplomatic diplo-matic relations with Germany, British Brit-ish advance 50 miles beyond Bagdad. April 11. Herbert C. Hoover, accepts ac-cepts offer to direct food supplies of United States. April 13. British cut Into ninden-burg ninden-burg line. President defines war zone off coast. April 14. House passes seven billion bil-lion war loan bill. April 15. Wilson calls on nation to support him in war. April 16. French ln 25-mile offensive of-fensive toward the "Ladles Board" and in Champagne take 10,000 prisoners first day. Am.il yi Big war credit passes senate sen-ate German wounded die when U-boats sink British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfrano without warning. April 18. French prisoners In new offensive total 17,000. Aprll jo. Fight is, started for prohibition pro-hibition during war. American freighter freight-er Mongolia sinks a U-boat the first American victory of the war. April 20. In confused night battle of destroyers in English Channel British Brit-ish and German vessels lock, and crews fight with cutlasses. April 21. Balfour commission from Great Britain reaches United States. April 21. French commission arrives ar-rives in United States. April 25U-hoats sink 64 British vessels In week. It Is announced, causing caus-ing alarm in Britain. Wilson tells Balfour Bal-four United States will not make a separate peace. United States makes first foreign war loan $200,000,000 to Great Britain. April 2S. House votes conscription army hill, 397 to 24, and senate, SI to 8. Guatemala breaks oft relations with Germany. April 29. Petaln chosen to lead ( French armies in place of Nivelle. Joffre asks United States army In France without delay. May 2. Announce first Liberty Loan bond issue will be 52,000,000,000. Secretary Sec-retary of State Lansing warns U-boat sinkings are serious. May 2. Russians abandon Mush, Armenia, to the Turks. May 3. News received of mistreatment mistreat-ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks. May 4. French take Craonne from Germans. May 6. French !a second battle of the Aisne take 6,100 prisoners. May 7. Orders given to raise 11,000 engineers here for work in France. May 10. Critical situation in Russia Rus-sia and civil war is feared. May 14. Great Britain turns over to United States 1,024,500 tons of shipping ship-ping building for her here. May 15. New Italian offensive begins. be-gins. May 16. Announced squadron of American destroyers is assisting the British; U-boat losses sink' to 26 in week. May 18. President proclaims conscription con-scription law, calling on 10,000,000 men, aged twenty-one to thirty-one years, to register June 5. Italians, announce 6,432 prisoners. May 25. Italy launches renewed Corso offensive, taking 9,000 prisoners first day. German airplanes kill 76 persons in Dover and Folkestone. May 26. Germany announces she will sink hospital ships without warning unless they obey certain strict rules about the courses they take. Announced An-nounced Italy has captured 22,414 Austrians Aus-trians since May 14. June 3. General Chang Hsun named dictator by royalists of China. June 5. United States registers for the army draft without disorder. General Bruslloff made head of Russian Rus-sian armies. June 7. British blow up Messines ridge ; explosion heard ln London ; 5,000 prisoners taken on first day of offensive. June 8. General Pershing, commander com-mander of American expedition, arrives ar-rives in England. Secretary of War Baker plans for 100,000 American airplanes. air-planes. One hundred American aviators avia-tors arrive in France. June 9. Wilson tells Russia what United States is fighting for. Japan offended by United States note urging urg-ing China to maintain order. . June 11. Lord Northcliffe, famous publisher, arrives to co-ordinate British Brit-ish missions in United States. June 12. King Constantine of Greece abdicates in- favor of his second sec-ond son, Alexander, at command of the allies. June 13. In greatest air raid so far on London, 153 are killed and 430 injured. in-jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu Root and American mission In Petrograd. Pe-trograd. June 15. Liberty loan oversubscribed. oversub-scribed. Great Britain frees all the Irish rebels. June 17. Doctor Ivers, who wrote Germany's official reply to the Belgian Bel-gian atrocity charges, is sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in Berlin for extorting $30,000 from the mother of a soldier by threats ; evidence shows he is a chronic drunkard and morphine fiend. Duma demands Immediate Imme-diate offensive by Russian troops.. June 19. United States Admiral Sims put in command of allied fleet off Ireland. June 22. Announced Liberty loan subscriptions total $3,035,226,850. June 25. American Red Cross campaign cam-paign closes,; with subscriptions over the hundred million dollars sought. June 26. Official Mesopotamian report' re-port' scores British civil and military leaders. Canadians within one mile of Lens, great French coal center. June 27. Arrival of first United States army in France announced. June 2S. Brazil joins in war by annulling an-nulling her decree of neutrality between be-tween the entente nations and Germany. Ger-many. June 29. Greece breaks diplomatic relations with the central powers. June 30. Russians begin big offensive offen-sive in Galicia. War Minister Ke-rensky Ke-rensky leads attack. Huig gains mile on four-mile front before Lens. July 1. Washington announces United States is ready to equip army of 2,000,000. July 2. Russian prisoners counted in her offensive number 10,273. Chinese Chin-ese empire re-established. July 3. Government tells of two submarine attacks on transports bearing bear-ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sunk. Russia announces 6,000 more prisoners. prison-ers. Germans make vain five-mile offensive of-fensive at Verdun. July 4. Eleven killed ln German air raid on Harwich. July 5. Republicans and monarchists monarch-ists battle 35 miles from Peking. July C. Leaders of German spy system sys-tem in United States arrested. July 7. Twenty-two German G.otha airplanes, mounting four guns each, raid London, killing 43 and injuring 197. July 8. Wilson orders export embargo em-bargo on food, fuel and many other things to prevent supplies reaching Germany. British foreign office s'ates German crops this summer will not be above 40 per cent of normal. United States shipping board states expects to build 5,000.000 to C.000.000 tons in IS months, instead of I he 2.500,000 to 3,0X).UOO originally aimed at. July 9. British drcudnaught Vanguard Van-guard blown up; all but two aboard killed. July 10. Germans in sudden drive along seacoast beat British back to Yser river and capture 1,250 men. Crisis over electoral reforms and war aims in Germany. Russians take Halicz, Galicia. July 11. Russians seize town of Kalusz. July 12. Widespread labor disorders in West caused by Industrial Workers of the World; German agents suspected. suspect-ed. Chang Hsun, leader of Chinese monarchists, flies to Dutch legation -In Peking. July 13. British bring down 30 German Ger-man airplanes on west front in biggest big-gest air battle so far. July 14. Chancellor Bethmann-Holl-weg resigned and Dr. G. E. Michaelis 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 16. Rusoians took Lodziany from Austrians, but evacuated Kalusz. July 17. French took German trenches near Melancourt. Three members of Russian cabinet resigned ; riots in Petrogrnd suppressed. Shake-up Shake-up in British cabinet. July 18. Increased activity on Roumanian Rou-manian front. Russians took part of Novica. July 19. Great German attack between be-tween Craonne and Hurteblse partly successful. Chancellor Michaelis declared de-clared for submarine warfare. Russians Rus-sians driven back in Vilna region. Teutons Teu-tons make advances in Galicia. July 20. Draft for American National Na-tional army held. Premier Lvoff of Russia succeeded by Kerensky. Germany Ger-many called 2,000,000 of her youngest men to the colors. July 21. Senate passed food control and aviation bills. Russians in disorderly disor-derly retreat, burning villages. July 22. German aviators raided England, killing 11 in coast towns, but were driven away from London. Slam declared state of war with Germany and Austria-Hungary. July 23. Kerensky given absolute powers as dictator of Russia. Germans Ger-mans lost heavily in attacks along the Chemin des Dames. July 24 Goethals, Denman and White out of shipping board ; Rear Admiral Ad-miral Capps, E. N. Hurley and Bain-bridge Bain-bridge Colby succeeded them. Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo asked congress for $5,000,000,000 more for war. Russians evacuated Stanislau, their whole Hue periled. French defeated Germans on Craonne front. July 25 Division of traitrous Russian Rus-sian troops blown to pieces by own artillery as part of General Korniloff's measures to restore order. Lenine, Russian pacifist agitator, captured after af-ter greatest man hunt Russia ever knew. |