The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-08

demand Germany make PREPARATION for
deaths of Americans resulting from sub
marine attacks and give guarantees
against repetition of offense.
May R.-Britlsh battleship Goliath tor
pedoed in Dardanelles. 500 lost
May lS--President Wilson'S note to Ger
many oabled
May I7.-zeppelin attacked English
coast towns and was driven off and Grip
pied by aeropIanes.
May H.-French won entire Lorette hill
north of Arras after six months of con-
tinuous fighting
May 22-Russian battleship PanteIei-
mon sunk in Black sea with 100 men
Austria Hungary.
May 25.-Italy invaded Austria at head
Of Gulf of Venice, Selling four towns
British warship Triumph sunk by tor
pedo In Dardanelles
May 26--American steamer Nebraskan.
from Liverpool without cargo, struck and
crippled by torpedo off Irish coast.
Italy invaded the Trentino
May N.-British battleship Majestic de-
stroyed by torpedo in Dardanelles
British auxiliary steamship Princess
irene blown up in Sheerness harbor 400
lives lost
May 3o.-German reply to Wilson note
received at Washington and declared
evasive.
May 3i.-German zeppelins made raid
| on London
June 3.-Przemysl recaptured by Ger
mans and Austrians
June 11.-Italians took Gradisca and
other important towns
June 15.-Austro-Germans, advancing
on Lemberg. captured Mosciska.
Allied aeroplane fleet bombarded Karls-
ruhe' killing q persons
Zeppelin. raided English northeast coast
killing Ii persons
June l6.-Russans driven over Galician
border
Germany called 10000 young trained
men to the colors
June H.-Austro-G Germans took Rawa
Ruska from Russians
General De Wet found guilty of trea-
son.
June 23.-Lemberg captured by Austro-
Germans.
Labyrinth, west OF Lens.
June 2S.-Italy broke diplomatic rela-
tons with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
by Germans. 20 Americans lost.
June S0-Russians began retreat from
Vistula river In Poland.
July 7.-Twenty allied aeroplanes raided
Bruges, destroying docks.
u. s. navy department seized German
wireless plant at Sayville, l. l., for
| breaches of neutrality.
July S.-Germanys reply to American
note on submarine warfare unyielding in
| most important particulars.
July 9.-German forces in German
Southwest Africa surrendered to General
| Botha.
British liner orduna, bringing Ameri
| cans home from Europe. attacked by
| German submarine with torpedo and
shells.
July 1s.-Italian cruiser Giuseppe Carl
| bald sunk by Austrian submarine.
July 22.-American reply to Germany,
former qt Snnt 10
Terrible massacres of Armenians by
Turks reported.
July 25.-American steamer Leelanaw
| sunk by German submarine: crew saved
July H-Austrians made air raid on
Verona.
July 3O-Austrians occupied Lublin
July 31.-Leyland liner Iberian sunk by
German torpedo boat seven of crew
| killed
Aug. 2-Mitau, capital of courland
taken by Germans.
Aug. 3.-Great Britain fatty rejected
American contentious against blockade.
Aug. 5.-Warsaw occupied by the Ger
| mans
Aug. 6.-Ivangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug. British cruiser India and de-
stroyer Lynx sunk.
| Turkish battleship Kheyr- Ed-Din Bar
barossa sunk by submarine in Darda-
| nelles.
Zeppelins raided English east coast
killing 49, one Zeppelin destroyed
Aug. lo.-U. S. rejected Austro- Hungar-
| ian Views on shipment OF war supplies.
| Aug. Il.-Brtish submarines entered
Black sea and torpedoed the BresIau and
Goeben.
Aug. H.-British troopship Royal Ed
| ward sunk by submarine in Aegean sea;
900 lost.
Aug. 17.-Germans took fortress OF Kov-
| no.
Greek cabinet resigned and venizelos
was invited to form new ministry
| Y. s. accepted German offer of compen-
| sation in Frye case.
Zeppelins raided British east coast
| killing ten civilians
Aug. 19.-White Star liner Arabic. Liv-
| erpool for Boston. torpedoed and sunk by
! German submarine OF Irish coast; IS lost
including two Americans
| Aug. 20 German fleet engaged Russian
| fleet in Gulf of Riga. each side losing sew
eral vessels.
Germans took Russian fortress of Noyo-
| georgievsk
Aug 2l.-Italy declared war on Turkey
German cruiser sunk by British sub
| marine in Baltic sea.
British seaplane sank loaded Turkish
troopship In Sea OF Marmora
Germans captured Bielsk. Russia
Aug. 23.-Germans occupied Russian
fortress of Ossowetz.
Aug. 25-Germans took Blalystok and
Brest-Litovsk.
Aug. 26,-Germans captured Russian
| fortress of Olita.
Germany declared the sinking of the
| Arabic, If done by German submarine
was decidedly condemned by the German
government and full reparaton would be
made.
Aug. s1-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 Bernstorff
taken by British from j. f. j. Archibald
Sept ALLAN liner Hesperian torpedoed
off Fastnet. 20 lost