Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-12
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS OF 1915
Progress Of the Great European War ReWeWedNotabe Occur
rences and Achievements Outside the Zone of Bae-Chon-
illogical Record of Outstanding Incidents of
Year lust Closed.
5.-Germans take Brest-Litovsk.

29-Austro- German cross the Zlota-Lipa.
Sl-Pegoud. first man to loop the loop In
aeroplane, killed In air battle with Ger
mans.
Sept Ambassador Won Bernstorr gives
Secretary of State Lansing written as
surances submarines will respect lives or
noncombatants. Germans take LutSk.
Germany announces she has taken l.
100000 Russian prisoners since May z
3.-Teutons take Grodno.
4-American steamship Hesperian tor
pedoed, two Americans killed and "A
others.
7-S-Zeppelins raid England. Grand Duke
Nicholas deposed by car and sent to
Scar of Russia takes personal COM
mand of his armies. Germans take mile
of Argonne trenches.
S-9-Second Zeppelin raid on England In
"a hours.
s-U. S. demands recall of Doctor Dumba.
AuStro- Hungarian ambassador. Com
mander of submarines says Arabic
turned to attack her and he then tor
pedoed her.
10.-Anglo-French financial commission
lands in New York.
u.-Zeppelins raid London.
15.-Germans take Pinsk.
16.-Sl5, 600, 900 in American meat conf1Scated
by British prize courts. Germans take
Pinsk.
19.-Germans take Wilma
22.-French aviators lombard royal PAL
ace in Stuttgart. Bulgaria orders mo-
biliZation.
25-Great Franco British offensive starts
In Champagne and Artois. After most
tremendous artillery bombardment in
history. French charge and take 10
square miles and $1,000 prisoners in
Champagne; British less successful due
to bungling. Greek army mobilizes.
26-Commission on Armenian atrocities
announces half million Christians have
been killed.
| $500 co., 600 u. S. loan to allies an
nounced. Internal explosion destroys
Italian ship Benedetto Brin in Brindisi
harbor; S24 killed.
| 30-French announce Germans have lost
| 10000 in four days in West
| Oct. 3.-Russia demands Bulgaria dismiss
all Teuton officers from her army In "a
| hours French air fleet of 65 flyers bonn
| bard German communications.
| 4.-French and British land troops In Sa-
| loniki Germans estimate allied loss
in western September battle at 10000:
6.-Bulgaria sends ult1matum to Serbia
Zaimis new Greek premier.
7.-Great Teuton offensive against Ser
bia starts. Russians lombard Varna.
u.-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three
points.
12.-Germans take Illukst.
13.-ZeppelinS lombard London. Fifty
five killed and LA injured in Zeppelin
raid on London.
14.-Greece renounces her treaty with
Serbia.
| 16.-Great Britain declares war on Bull
garia.
| 1S-Sir Edward Carson quits British cab
met General Ian Hamilton deposed as
British DardanelleS commander. French
and British attack Strumnitza, Bulgaria.
20.-Bulgarians take Vranja, and cut Nish-
Saloniki railroad. Italy declares war on
Bulgaria.
21-Great Britain offers Greece Cyprus If
she will assist Serbia. Russians take
Czernowitz and attack Germans at
Mitau. BulgarianS occupy Kumanova.
| 22.-Minister Whitlock's report shows
Miss Cavell, English nurse. was rushed
| to death in Brussels by firing squad de-
spite American and Spanish appeals.
Russians prisoners attack
Baronowitschi.
| 23.-Russians take $500 prisoners north of
Tarnopol.
M.-Buigarians take Krupili
25.-Bulgarians take Uskub. Germans
storm 1lluXt near Dvinsk.
| 2S.-Viviani ministry falls. BRAND forms
new cabinet. King Georges horse falls
upon him while inspecting his army In
| France
26.-Buigarians and Teutons effect a juno
ton.
| Nov 1-Germans take Kragujevac.
| 3-First of Germany's no-meat days.
| 4-Zaimis cabinet resigns,
| 6-Bulgarians take NiSh. Germans push
Russians across Stripa river.
7-Austrians sink Italian liner Ancona;
| 205 killed, IL Americans: Venizelos hav-
ing overturned the Zamais cabinet.
| Skouloudis becomes head of new Greek
| cabinet. U. S. note protesting at Brit
| aims blockade, made public.
| 10.-Austrian submarine sinks italian lin
| er Ancona, seven naturalized Americans
killed.
| 12-Winston S. Churchill leaves British
| cabinet to go to the front. Greek
chamber dissolved.
| 15.-Twenty-eight killed In Austrian air
raid on Verona.
21-Germans take Cacak Serbian tempo
rary capital.
22-Serbians begin retreat into Montene-
gro.
| 24.-German papers full of talk of peace.
| 29.-Germany announces the successful
completion OF her campaign against
Serbia.
Dec. DIR Karl Buenz, managing di-
rector of the Hamburg-Amercan line,
| found guilty of classifying manifests in
| New York, and sentenced to two years
in Atlanta prison.
! 3.-United States demands recall of Cap
| tains Boy-Ed and Won Papen, German
| military and naval attaches. Bulgarians
take Monastir.
| 4.-Henry Ford sails from New York in
Teuton troops rushed to RutSchuk on
the Danube to meet Russian threat
| 5.-British admit Mesopotamian expedi-
ton has been defeated and has retreat
ed.
| 6.-Bulgarians attack French and British
in Serbia with great energy.
9.-Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg de-
clares in reichstag allies must seek
| peace.
| 12.-Stern note to Austria on Ancona sink
! ing is made public.
| 13.-Germany announces two Franco
British divisions have been annihlated
in retreat to Grecian soil.
| 16.-1taly admits destroyer lntrepido and
transport Re Umberto sunk by Aus
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