Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-01-15


against repetition of offense-
| May I.-British battleship Goliath tor
pedoed in Dardanelles. 500 lost
May I3--President Wilson's note to Ger
May 17.-Zeppelin attacked English
coast towns and was driven of and Grip
pied by aeroplanes-
May 21--French won entire Lorette hill
north of Arras after six months OF con-
tinuous fighting.
May z--Russian battleship Pantelei-
| mon sunk in Black sea with LOO men
/ May 23-Italy declared war against
Austria-Hungary.
May 5.-Italy invaded Austria at head
of Gulf of Venice, seizing four towns.
| British warship Triumph sunk by tor
pedo in DardaneIles
May 26--American steamer Nebraskan.
| from Liverpool without cargo. struck and
| crippled by torpedo on Irish coast.
| Italy invaded the Trentino-
May N--Britsh battleship Majestic de-
stroyed by torpedo in Dardanelles.
British auxiliary steamship Princess
| Irene blown up in Sheerness harbor 43O
lives lost
May alderman reply to Wilson note
| received at Washington and declared
May SHERMAN Zeppelins made raid
on London.
June s--Przemysl recaptured by Ger
mans and Austrians.
June n--Italians took Gradisca and
other important towns
June 15.-Austro-Germans advancing
O4i A@eInDeTS, captured MOSciSka.
Allied aeroplane fleet bornbarded Karls-
ruhe. killing q persons.
Zeppelin raided English northeast coast
killing 16 persons
June 16-Russiaus driven over Ca-ic5ar
border
Germany called 10000 young trained
men to the colors
June 2.-Austro-Cermau took PAU,
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-1taly broke diplomatic reIa-
tions with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
by Germans. 20 Americans lost.
June So-Russians began retreat from
Vistula river In Poland.
July 7.-Twenty allied aeroplanes raided
Bruges. destroying docks
u S. navy department seized German
breaches of neutrality.
July S--Germany'S reply to American
note on submarine warfare unyielding in
most important particulars.
July o.-German forces in German
Southwest Africa surrendered to General
Botha-
Gang home 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
reaffirming former stand. sent to Berlin
Turks reported.
July 25.-Amcrican steamer Leelanaw
sunk by German submarine: crew saved
July N--Austrians made air raid on
Verona.
July so--Austrfans occupied Lublin.
July 31.-Leyland liner Iberian sunk by
German torpedo boat: seven of crew
Aug. 2.-M.tau. capital of courland.
taken by Germans
Aug. s--Great Britain fatty rejected
American contentious against blockade
Aug. s--Warsaw occupied by the Ger
mans.
Aug. s.-Ivangorod taken by Austro-
Aug. e-British cruiser India and de-
stroyer Lynx sunk.
Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Din Bar
oarossa sunk by submarine in Darda-
Germans occupied Praga
Zeppelins raided English east coast.
killing Is: one Zeppelin destroyed
Aug. 1O.-U. 8 rejected Austro-Hunrsr-
ian views on shipment of war supplies
Aug. 1L-British submarines entered
Black sea and terpedoed the Breslau 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.
U. s. accepted German offer OF compen-
sation in Frye case.
Zeppel:ns raided British east coast
killing ten civilians.
Aug. 1s.-White Star liner Arabic. Lfv-
erpool for Boston, torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine OFF Irish coast: Is lost
including two Americans
Aug. alderman feet 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 Sec of Marmora
Germans captured Bielsk. Russia
Aug. 23--Germanc 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 I
Arabic. If done by German submarine
was decidedly condemned by the German
government and full reparation would be
made.
Aug s1--AdoIphe Pegoud. note. French |
aviator, killed in action
Germans took Russian fortress of |
Lutsk-
Sept 2-Ee-many offered to submit In
sitania and Arabic compensation claims
to The Hague tribunal
Russians evacuated Grodno.
Papers involving Durnba and Bernstorff
taken by British from J. F. ]. Archibald
Sept ALLAN liner Hesperfan torpedoed
Off Fastnet: &c lost.
Sept e--President Wilson demanded re-
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