Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-01-12

May l3.-President Wilson's note to Ger
many cabled
May 7.-zeppeIin attacked English
coast towns and was driven off and cvip
pied by aeroplanes
May 21.-French won entire Lorette hill
| north OF Arras after six months Of con
tinuous fighting.
May 22.-Russian battleship Pantelei
mon sunk in Black sea with 100 men.
May 23.-Italy declared war agains
Austria Hungary.
May 5.-Italy invaded Austria at head
OF Gulf of Venice. seizing four towns.
British warship Triumph sunk by tor.
pedo in Dardanelles.
May 26-American steamer Nebraskan
from Liverpool without cargo. struck anc
crippled by torpedo off Irish coast
Italy invaded the Trentino.
May H.-British battleship Majestic de.
stroyed by torpedo in Dardanelies
British auxiliary steamship Princess
Irene blown up in Sheerness harbor. 49(
lives lost.
May 0.-German reply to Wilson note
received at Washington and declared
evasive.
May alderman zeppelins made raid
on London
June 3.-Przemysl recaptured by Ger
mans and Austrians
June 1i.-Itaiians took Gradlsea and
other Important towns.
June I5.-Austro-G Germans. advancing
on Lemberg, captured Mosciska
Allied aeroplane fleet bombarded Karls-
ruhe, killing q persons.
Zeppelin raided English northeast coast,
killing IL persons.
June 1e.-Russians driven over Galician
border.
Germany called 10000 young trained
men to the colors.
June a.-Austro-Germans took Rawa
Ruska from Russians.
General De Wet found guilty OF trea-
son.
June 23.-Lemberg captured by Austro-
Germans.
French took German work called the
Labyrinth west of Lens
June 2S.-Italy broke diplomatic rela-
tons with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
by Germans. 20 Americans lost.
June 30.-Russians began retreat from
Vistula river IN Poland
July Twenty allied aeroplanes raided
Bruges, destroying docks.
y. S. navy department seized German
wireless. plant at Sayville, L. l., for
breaches of neutrality.
July 6-Germany5 reply to American
note on submarine warfare unyielding in
most important particulars.
IN German
Southwest Africa surrendered to General
Botha.
British liner orduna. bringing Ameri-
can5 homo from Europe. attacked by
German submarine with torpedo and
shells.
July 1s.-Itallan cruiser Giuseppe Carl
baldi sunk by Austrian submarine
July 22.-American reply to Germany.
reaffirming former stand. sent to Berlin
Ter Hlas -
Turks reported
July 25-American steamer Leelanaw
sunk by German submarine; crew saved
July 1-Austrians made air raid on
Verona.
July s0-Austrians occupied Lublln.
July 3.-Leyland liner Tberian sunk by
German torpedo boat; seven OF crew
killed.
Aug. 2-Mltau. capital Of couriand
taken by Germans.
Aug. 3.-Great Britain fatty rejected
american contentious against blockade
Aug. 5.-warsaw occupied by the Ger
mans.
Aug s-Ivangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug. s.-British cruiser India and de-
stroyer Lynx sunk.
Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-D Bar
barossa sunk by submarine in Darda-
nelles
Germans occupied Praga.
Zeppelins raided English east coast
killing Is: one Zeppelin destroyed
Aug 1O.-u. rejected tro-Hungar-
ian views on shipment OF war supplies.
Aug. 1L-British submarines entered
Black sea and torpedoed the Breslau and
Goeben.
Aug. H.-British troopship Royal Ed
ward sunk by submarine in Aegean sea:
800 lost.
Aus 17-Germans took fortress of Kov-
no
Greek cabinet resigned and venlzelos
was invited to form new ministry.
=. s. accepted German offer OF compen-
sation in Frye case.
Zeppelins raided British east coast
killing ten civilians,
Aug i9-White Star liner Arabic. I.fv-
erpool for Boston. torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine of Irish coast; IS lost
including two Americans.
Aug 20 German feet engaged Russian
feet in Gulf of Riga, each side losing sew
eral vessels.
Germans took Russian fortress of Novo-
georgiivsk
Aug I.-ftaly declared war on Turkey
German cruiser sunk by British sub
marine in Baltic sea.
British scaplane sank loaded Turkish
troopshlp in Sec OF Marmora
Germans captured Bielsk, Russia.
Aug. E-Germanr occupied Russian
fortress of Ossowetz.
Aug. 25.-Germans took Bialystok and
BTest-Litovsk
Aug. B-Germans captured Russian
fortress o Olita.
Germany declared the sinking OF the
Arabic IL done by German submarine
was decidedly condemned by the German
government and fun PREPARATION would be
made.
Aug sl,-Adolphe Pegoud, notice French
aviator killed in action.
Germans took Russian fortress OF
Lutsk.
Sept 2.-Germany offered to submit Luz
sitania and Arabic compensation claims
to The Hague tribunal
Russians evacuated Grodno
Papers involving Dumba and Bernstorfr
taken by British from ] F. J. Archibald
Sept 4.-AlIan liner Hesperian torpedoed
off Fastnet, &c lost
Sept 9.-President Wilson demanded re-
call Of Austrian Ambassador Dumba.
Germany declared II would pay no in
demniiy for Arabic deaths.
ZeppeIns raided London. killing 20 and
InJuring s6.
Sept lO-Germany defended attack on
orduna. saying It tried 10 escape subma-
rine.
Anglo-French financial commission ar
rived IN America to ARA &c for loan OF
$500 o00. eco TO allies.
Sept. l5.-Russians checked Won Hin
denburg's drive toward Riga and drove
Austrians further back in Gaiicia
Sept 1S.-Yilna evacuated by Russians
Sept 1s.-British transport Ramazan
sunk by submarine In Aegean sea: hun
dreds lost.
Sept. 22.-French aviators dropped 100
bombs on royal palace at Stuttgart and
elsewhere in Wurtemberg.
Germans captured Ostrow. but bulk of
Russian army in wilma salient escaped,
Sept 22-Germauy promised American