Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1916-01-06
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS OF 1915
Progress of the Great European War Revewed-Notab Occur
enceS and Achievements Outside the Zone BaIe-Chron-
illogical Record of Outstanding Incidents of
Year Just Closed.
Germans take Brest-Litovsk.

/ S-Germans take Olita
sE-Austro-German cross the Zlota-Lipa
Si-fesoud, first man To loop the loop IN
aeroplane. killed in air battle with Ger
mans.
Sept. L-Ambassador Won Bernstorff gives
secretary of State Lansing written as
surances submarines Will respect lives OF
nuncombatants. Germans take Lutsk
Germany announces she has taken l..
100000 Russian prisoners since Nav -
S-Teutons take Grodno.
t'-American steamship Hesperian tor
peuoed' two Americans killed and q
'-S.-Zeppelns raid England. Grand Duke
NNi9holas deposed 10y ear and sent to
Scar of Russia takes personal com
mand OF his armies. Germans take mile
or ArSonne trenches
So Second zeppelin raid on England in
- hours.
81. s demands recall OF Doctor Dumba
Austro-HunsariAn ambassadors Com
mander OF submarines saws Arabic
turned 10 attack her and he then tor
lo-Anglo- French financial commission
lands in New York
l-Zeppellns raid London
l5.-Germans take Pinsk
TO- -Sl2.tVo.cr in Amer.cun meat coniiscated
1y British prize courts. Germans take
l9.-Germans take Wilma
FRENCH aviators lombard royal pal
ace IN stuttgart Bulgaria orders mo
25:-Great Franco British offensive starts
IN champagne and Artois. After most
tremendous artillery mbardment i'm
history French ,charge and take It
square miles and 25.NN prisoners In
Champagne. British less successful due
o 10 ounsling. Greek army mobilizes
-o-Commission on Armenian atrocities
been killed
$500 10000 L. $. loan to allies an
noGnced. Internal explosion destroys
Italian ship Benedetto Brin in Brindisi
harbor: S24 killed
SoMtrench announce Germans have lost
10000 in four DAYS in West
oct 5.-Russia demands Bulgaria dismiss
an Ieuton officers from her army in y
hours French air fleet of Is flyers bonn
bard German communications.
ionlkl. Germans estimate allied loss
In western September battle at 100 0co
o.-Bulgaria sends ultimatum 10 Serbia
Zaimis new Greek premier
I-Great Teuton offensive against Ser
bia starts. Russians lombard Varna.
W.-Austro-Germans capture Belgrade
H.-Bulgaria inv AIDES Serbia at three
l2.-Germans take Inukst.
l5-Zeppeiins lombard London Fifty
hve killed and ia injured in Zeppelin
li;-Greece renounces her treaty with
Serbia.
ls.-Great Britain declares war on Bull
lS;-sir Edward Carson quits British cab
met General Ian Hamilton deposed as
British Dardanelles commander French
~ ana British attack Strumnitza. Bulgaria
2O;-Bulgarians take Nranja and cut \ish-
Saloniki railroad. Italy declares war on
T.-Great Britain offers Greacs Cvnrrs g.,
she Will assist Serbia. Russians take
Czernowitz and attack Germans at
40 Mitau- Bulgarians occupy Kumanova
Z:-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 take $500 prisoners and attack
Tarnopol -
24.-Bulsarians take Krupil.
5.-Bulgarians take Uskub. Germans
storm llluXt near Dvinsk.
-S-Niviani ministry falls. BRAND forms
new cabinet King Georges horse falls
upon nm while inspecting his army in
and Teutons effect a June
NOV. l.-Germans take Kragujevac.
5.-ttrst of Germany's no-meat days.
t-Zaimis cabinet resigns.
6-Bulgarians take Nish. Germans push
= Russians across Stripa river.
sink Italian liner Ancona:
20 killed. II Americans. Venizelos hav-
ing overturned the Zamais cabinet
Skouloudis becomes head of new Greek
cabinet; I. S. note protesting at Brit
- am $ blockade made public.
lO--Austrian submarine sinks Italian lin
er Ancona, seven naturalized Americans
2.-Winston S. Churchill leaves British
cabinet to go to the front Greek
chamber dissolved
killed in Austrian air
raid on Verona.
2l-Germans take Cacak Serbian tempo
-ary capital.
e2-serbians begin retreat into Montene-
gro.
Alderman papers full OF talk of peace.
S-Germany announces the successful
completion of her campaign against
Serbia.
Dec. 2.-Dr. Karl Buenz, managing di-
rector or the Hamburg-American line |
found guilty Of falsifying manifests i'm !
New YORK. and sentenced to- two years
in Atlanta prison.
limited States demands recall Of Can |
tains Boyd and Won Papen. German |
military and naval attaches Bulgarians |
take Monastir
Henry Ford sails from New York in |
amateur EFFORT to end the war 5000 |
Icuton troops rushed to Rutschuk on /
the Danube to meet Russian threat
British admit Mesopotamian exnedi- |
ton has been defeated and has retreat |
ed
J. -Bulgarians attack French and British |
In Serbia with great energy
-Chancellor Won Bethmann-f Iollweg de- |
clares In reichstag allies must seek |
peace.
stern note to Austria on Ancona sink
ing Is made public
S;-Germany announces two Franco |
British divisions have been annihlated |
In retreat to Grecian soil.
b-ltaly admits destroyer Intrepido and
transport Re Umberto sunk by Aus