The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-01-07
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS OF 1915
Progress of the Great European War RevewecNotabe Occur
and Achievements Outside the Zone of BaIe-Chron-
illogical Record of Outstanding Incidents Of
Year lust Closed.
take Brest-Litovsk.
,8 -Germa take OIita

| Z5.-Germans take Brest-LftovSk.
| 2S.-Germans take Olita.
29.-Austro- German cross the Zlota-Lipa
| 3L-Pegoud, first man to loop the loop II
aeroplane. killed in air battle with Ger
| mans.
Sept. L-Ambassador Won Bernstorff give.
Secretary of State Lansing written as
surances submarines will respect lives Of
noncombatants. Germans take Lutsk
Germany announces she has taken l.,
100000 Russian prisoners since May 2.
3.-Teutons take Grodno.
| 4.-American steamship Hesperian tor.
pedoed, two Americans killed and q
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.
gu. s. demands recall of Doctor Dumba.
Austro-Hungarian ambassador. Com
mander of submarines says Arabic
turned to attack her and ne then tor
pedoed her.
1O.-Anglo- French financial commission
lands in New York.
| n.-Zeppelins raid London.
| 15.-Germans take Pinsk.
| 16.-S15, 00O, 900 in American meat confiscated
| by British prize courts. Germans take
| 19.-Germans take Wilma.
| 22.-French aviators lombard royal pal
ace in Stuttgart. Bulgaria orders mo-
25.-Great Franco British offensive starts
in Champagne and Artois. After most
history. French charge and take 16
square miles and 5000 prisoners in
Champagne; British less successful due
to bungling. Greek army mobilizes.
26.-Commission on Armenian atrocities
ANNOUNCES half million Christians have
been killed.
28.-$50O, 100000 U. s. loan to allies an
nounced. Internal explosion destroys
italian ship Benedetto Brin in Brindisi
harbor: 1924 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-
lonilS. Germans estimate allied loss
in western September battle at 10000.
6.-Bulgaria sends ultimatum to Serbia
Zaimis new Greek premier.
7.-Great Teuton offensive against Ser
bia starts. Russians lombard Varna.
10-Austro-Germans capture Belgrade.
u.-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three
points.
12-Germans take Illukst.
13.-Zeppelins lombard London. Fifty
five killed and ia injured in Zeppelin
raid on London.
H:-Greece renounces her treaty with
Serbia
16.-Great Britain declares war on Bull
1S.-Sir Edward Carson quits British cab
met. General Ian Hamilton deposed
British Dardanelles commander. French
and British attack Strumnitza, Bulgaria.
20.-Bulgarians take Vranja. and cut Nish-
Saloniki railroad. Italy declares war on
Bulgaria.
N-Great Britain offers Greece Cyprus If
she will assist Serbia. Russians take
Czernowitz and attack Germans at
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 take $500 prisoners and attack
BarOnoWitSchi.
23-Russians take 1850 prisoners north of
Tarnopol
take Krupili.
25.-Bulgarians take Uskub. Germans
storm IlluXt near Dvinsk.
28.-Viviani ministry falls. BRAND forms
new cabinet. King Georges horse falls
upon him while inspecting his army in
France
26-Bulgarians and Teutons effect 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.
sink Italian liner Ancona; |
2o5 killed. II Americans: Venizelos hav- |
Skouloudis becomes head of new Greek |
cabinet: U. S. note protesting at Brit
aims blockade, made public.
submarine sinks Italian lin
er AncOna, seven naturalized Americans /
killed.
I2-Winston s. Churchill leaves British
cabinet to go to the front Greek |
chamber dissolved
6.-Twenty-eigh killed in Austrian air
raid on Verona.
I.-Germans take Cacak Serbian tempo
rary capital.
2.-Serbians begin retreat into Montene-
gro.
Alderman papers full of talk of peace.
9.-Germany announces the successful |
completion of her campaign against |
Serbia.
Dec. 2.-Dr. Karl Buenz. managing d.
rector of the Hamburg-American line, |
found guilty of classifying manifests in
New York, and sentenced to two years
in Atlanta prison.
United States demands recall of Cap
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 $1,000
Teuton troops rushed to Rutschuk on
the Danube to meet Russian threat
British admit Mesopotamian exped-
ton has been defeated and has retreat |
ed.
attack French and British
in Serbia with great energy.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg de-
clares In reichstag allies must seek
peace.
Stern note to Austria on Ancona sink
ing is made public.
Germany announces two Franco
British divisions have been annihlated
in retreat to Grecian soil.
Italy admits destroyer Intrepido and | 7
transport Re Umberto sunk by Aus
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