Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-01-11


| May 12.-British battleship Goliath tor
pedoed in Dardanelles, 500 lost
| May 13.-President Wilson's note to Ger
many cabled
May 17.-zeppeiin attacked English
coast towns and was driven off and Grip
pied by aeroplanes.
May 21.-French won entire Lorette hill
| north of Arras after six months of con-
| tinuous fighting.
May 2..-Russian battIeship Pantelei-
| mon sunk in Black sea with LOO men.
May 23-Italy declared war against
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 arc
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, 43(
lives lost.
May SHERMAN reply to Wilson note
received at Washington and declared
evasive.
May SHERMAN 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 16 persons.
June 16.-Russians driven over Galician
border.
Germany called 100000 young trained
men to the colors.
June 21.-Austro-G 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 28.-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
U. S. navy department seized German
wirelesc plant at Sayville, L. l., for
breaches of neutrality.
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
hq1di CIInlx bV rhy,oo rir
July 2.-American reply to Germany,
reafhrming 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 30.-Austrians occupied Lublin.
July H.-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. 6.-Ivangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug. s-British cruiser India and de-
stroyer Lynx sunk.
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. 10.-U. S. rejected Austro-H ungar-
ian views on shipment of war supplies
Aug. n.-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. H.-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-White Star liner Arabic, Liv-
erpool for Boston, torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine off Irish coast; 45 lost,
including two Americans.
Aug. alderman 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
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. 3.-Germans occupied Russian
fortress of OssowetZ.
Aug. 25.-Germans took Bialystok and
Brest-Litovsk.
Aug. 26.-Germans captured Russian
fortress o. 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, noted 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. ]. Archibald
Sept 4.-Allan liner Hesperian torpedoed
off Fastnet: 26 lost.
Sept. 9.-President Wilson demanded re-
call of Austrian Ambassador Dumba.
Germany declared it would pay no in
demnity for Arabic deaths.
Zeppelins raided London, killing 20 and
injuring Sc.
Orduna, saying it tried to escape subma-
rine.
Anglo-French financial commission ar
rived in America to arrange for loan OF
$500, 00O. 900 to allies.
Sept. 15.-Russians checked Won Hin
denburg's drive toward Riga and drove
Austrians further back in Galicia.
Sept. 1S.-Vilna evacuated by Russians
Sept. 19.-British transport Ramazan
sunk by submarine in Aegean sea; hun
dreds lost.
Sept. 22-French aviators dropped 10C
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 contraban6
would not be sunk by submarines, and
made other concessions.
Sept. 25.-Allies on western front began
| tremendous general attack on Germans.
| Sept. 2S.-American loan to allies, hall
a billion dollars at per cent announced
| Italian battleship Benedetto Brin de-