Middletown transcript., 1916-01-08

May H.-BrttiSh DattleShlp CONAN Lor-
pedoed in Dardanelles, 800 lost.
May 13.-President Wilson's note to Ger
many cabled.
May 17.-zeppelin attacked English
coast towns and was driven of and Grip
pied by aeroplanes.
May 2l.-French won entire Lorette hill
north of Arras after six months Of con-
tinuous fighting.
May 2.-Russian battleship Pantelei-
mon sunk in Black sea with 1,400 men.
May 2S.-Italy declared war against
Austria Hungary.
May S5.-Italy invaded Austria at head
Of Gulf of Venice. seizing four towns.
British warship Triumph sunk by ter
pedo in Dardanelles.
May 2.-American steamer Nebraskan.
from Liverpool without cargo, struck and
crippled by torpedo off Irish coast.
Italy invaded the Trentino.
May H.-British battleship Majestic de-
stroyed by torpedo in Dardanelles.
British auxiliary steamship Princess
Irene blown up in Sheerness harbor, 430
lives lost.
May So.-German reply to Wilson note
received at Washington and declared
evasive.
May Sl-German Zeppelins made raid
on London.
mans and Austrians.
June u.-Italians took Gradisca and
other important towns.
June 15.-Austro-Ge Germans, advancing
on Lemberg, captured Mosciska.
Allied aeroplane fleet bombarded Karls-
ruhe, killing q persons.
Zeppelin raided English northeast coast.
killing Ii persons
June 1S.-Russians driven over Galician
border
Germany called 100000 young trained
men to the colors.
June 2.-Austro-G Germans took Rawa
Ruska from Russians.
General De Wet found guilty Of trea-
son.
June 2S.-Lemberg captured by Austro-
Germans.
French took German work called the
Labyrinth, west of Lens.
June 2S.-Italy broke diplomatic rela-
tions with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
by Germans 20 Americans lost.
June 3O.-Russians began retreat from
Vistula river IN Poland.
July 7.-Twenty allied aeroplanes raided
Bruges. destroying docks.
u. s. navy department seized German
wireles1 plant at Sayville, L. l.. for
breaches of neutrality.
July G.-Germany'9 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 homo from Europe, attacked by
German submarine with torpedo and
shells.
July 1S-Italian cruiser Giuseppe Carl
baldi sunk by Austrian submarine.
July 22-American reply to Germany
reaf1rming former stand, sent to Berlin.
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 SO.-Austrians occupied Lublin.
July S1.-Leyland liner Iberian sunk by
German torpedo boat; seven of crew
killed.
Aug. 2-M!tau. 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. s-Ivangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug. 9-British cruiser India and de-
Lynx BULK.
Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Din Bar
barossa sunk by submarine in Darda-
nelles.
Germans occupied Praga.
Zeppelins raided English east coast,
killing Is; one Zeppelin destroyed.
Aug. 1O-U. S. rejected Austro-Hungar-
ian views on shipment of war supplies.
Aug. 11.-British submarines entered
Black sea and torpedoed the Breslau and
Goeben.
Aug. 14-British troopship Royal Ed
ward sunk by submarine in Aegean sea;
800 lost.
Aug. n.-Germans took fortress Of Kov-
no.
Greek cabinet resigned and venizelos
was invited to form new ministry.
U. S. accepted German offer of compen-
sation in Frye case.
Zeppelins raided British east coast
killing ten civilians.
Aug. 19.-Whlte Star liner Arabic, Liv-
German submarine off Irish coast; 45 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 Novo-
georgievsk
Aug 21.-Italy declared war on Turkey.
OSTUUdn ny DEiltSn SUU-
marine in Baltic sea.
British seaplane sank loaded Turkish
troopship in Sec Of Marmora.
Germans captured Bielsk, Russia.
Aug 2S.-Germans occupied Russian
fortress Of Ossowetz.
Aug. 25.-Germans took Bialystok and
Brest-Litovsk.
Aug. 2s.-Germans captured Russian
fortress G. Olita.
Germany declared the sinking of the
Arabic, If done by German submarine.
was decidedly condemned by the German
government and full reparation would be
made.
Aug. 31-Adolphe Pegoud. notes French
aviator, killed in action.
Germans took Russian fortress of
| Lutsk.
Sept. 2-Germany offered to submit Lu-
sitania and Arabic compensation claims
to The Hague tribunal
Russians evacuated Grodno.
| Papers involving Dumba and Bernstorf
taken by British from ]. F. ]. Archibald
Sept. 4.-Allan liner Hesperian torpedoed
off Fastnet: 26 lost.
Sept. 9.-President Wilson demanded re-
call of Austrian Ambassador Dumba.
Germany declared 1t would pay no in
demnity for Arabic deaths.
Zeppelins raided London, killing 20 and
injuring 86.
Sept 10.-Germany defended attack on
Orduna, saying it tried to escape subma-
rine.
Anglo-French financial commission ar
rived in America to arrange for loan of
$500, ,O00. 900 to allies.
Sept. 15.-Russians checked Won Hin
denburg's drive toward Riga and drove
Austrians further back in Galicia.
Sept. 18.-Vilna evacuated by Russians.
Sept. 19.-Brtish 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 23.-Germany promised American
ships carrying conditional contraband
would not be sunk by submarines, and
made other concessions.
Sept. 25.-Allies on western front began