The midland journal., 1916-08-04
CHIEF EVENTS OF
WARS SECOND YEAR

Aug. l-Teutons take Lubi.n.
Aug. 2Teutons take Cholrn; announce
10000 Russians captured In July.
Aug. 6-Germans capture Warsaw.
Aug 7-Teutons take Ivangorod.
Aug 9-Germans take Serock.
Aug 10-Great Brit ain starts register
of all men.
Aug. u-Germans take Lomza.
Aug 12-Allies land $4,000 more men on
GallipoM.
Aug l4-Germans take siedlce and solo-
low
Aug 1e-Teutons start Belgrade bonn
bardment.
Aug. l9-Russians lose Kovno. Zeppelins
kill ten In Lo.-don suburbs.
Aug. 20-U-boat sinks liner Arabic. two
Americans killed.
Aug. 2l-German seize Novogeorgievsk.
Aug. 24-Germans capture Osscwiec.
Aug. 25-Germans take Kovel.
Aug. 27-Brest-Litovsk falls.
Aug. 2s-Germans take olita.
Aug 29-Teutons cross Zlota Lipa.
Sept. 2-Germany announces 100000
Russians captured since May !. Lutsk is
taken. New York sterling exchange
drops to $3.50.
Sept. 3ERussians lose Brody.
Sept 4-Russians give up Grodno. Brit.
ish slaughtered in attempt to storm Hill
20.
Sept. 6-Hesperian torpedoed, Ameri-
cans killed. Russians check Teutons on
the Dvina and Sereth rivers.
Sept Scar Nicholas takes command
OF all the Russian armies in the field.
Sept. 7-s-Two Zeppelin raids on Lon
don; 80 killed.
Sept. 10-As Teutons take Dubno, czar
wins victory near Tarnopol and Trem-
bowia-
Sept 12-Russians drive Teutons back
IA miles in Galicia.
Sept. 17-von Mackensen seizes Pinsk.
Sept. a-Germans take Wilma.
Sept. 26-Ruasians recapture Lutsk.
Sept. N-French In two day battle adj
vance on wide front in Champasne. while
British attack south of La Bassee Canal.
Oct 2Germans announce 5000 Rus
SLAMS were captured in September.
Oct 5-Cermans estimate allied loss in
futile West front offensive at 10000 men.
Oct. Bulgaria sends u1timatum to
Serbia
Oct. s-Teutons begin great invasion of
Serbia.
Oct. 10-Teutons occupy Belgrade.
Oct. 13-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three
points. Fifty-fve killed by Zeppelin raid
on London.
Oct. 20-Russian recapture Czartorysk.
Serbians lose Vranja.
Oct. 22-Brand whitlock, U. 8. minister
to Belgium. reports hurried execution of
Edith Cavell. English nurse.
Oct. 25-BuIgarians capture Uskub.
Oct. 25-Germans storm Illuxt.
Oct, 23-Bulgarians and Teutons effect
junction In Serbia.
Nov. 2-Austro-Germans take Kragu-
jevac.
Nov 4-First of German mo meat"
days.
Nov. 7--gulgarians take Nish. Serbian
war capital
Nov i0-Italian liner Ancona sunk with
large loss of life.
Nov. 22-serbians begin retreat into
Nov, s-BrirIsh defeated IS miles from
Bagdad
Nov 27-I.aiians land at Avlona. Al
bania.
Nov 2e-Germans announce operations
against Serbia have ended in complete
success.
Dec. 7,-New war council with all allies
represented meets at Paris.
Tee 10-Ger.nan chancellor makes peace
bid in reichstag speech.
Dec. 1Q-TurlSs begin siege of Kut-el-
Anara.
Dec, lS-sir Douglas Haig assumes COM
mand of British in France.
Dec 20-Ford peace band reaches ChSis-
tiania with delegates quarreling.
Dec 21-Lloyd-George declares Britain
faces defeat unless greater efforts are
made.
Dec. 2s-Lloyd-George threatens to re-
sign unless conscription is adopted.
Dec Si--Italians occupy Durazzo. Al
bania.
Jan. 2, 1916 Word received liner Persia
sunk in Mediterranean; two Americans
lost.
Jan. - Germans abandon CAMERON
colony. West Africa. Russians take Czer-
nowitz.
Jan. 6-conscription bill passes first
reading in house of commons.
Jan. british complete evacuation OF
GallipolI.
Jan S-Russians take Czartorysk.
Jan. 20-Zeppelins kill % in Paris. Ger
mans take two miles of trenches at Pc
ronne.
Feb. 1-Zeppelins raid Liverpool and
other British cities; kill 50.
Feb 2-Germans bring British prize
steamer Appam into Hampton Roads.
Feb. I7-Russians capture Erzerum.
Feb. 2l-German drive at verdun begins.
Feb 23-Czar visits Duma for first time
In history.
advance at verdun.
Fab 27--Germans capture Fort Douau-