The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-08-03
CHIEF EVENTS Of
WARS SECOND YEAR

Aug. 1-Teutons take Lublin.
Aug. 2-Teutons take Cholm: announce
10000 Russians captured In July.
Aug. 6-Germans capture Warsaw.
Aug. 7-Teutons take Ivangorod.
Aug. S-Germans take Serock.
Aug. 10-Great Britain starts register
OF all men.
Aug. 1l-Germans take Lomza.
Aug. 12-Allies land 5000 more men on
Gallipol
Aug. 14-Germans take Sedlce and Soso-
low.
Aug 1s-Teutons start Belgrade bonn
bardment.
Aug. 1s-Russians lose Kovno. Zeppelins
kill ten in 1.o..don suburbs.
Aug. 0-U-boat sinks liner Arabic. two
Americans killed.
Aug. 21-German seize Novogeorsievsk.
Aug. 4-Germans capture Ossowiec.
Aug. 25-Germans take kovei.
Aug. 27-Brest-I Iitovsk falls.
Aug. 2s-Germans take Olita.
Aug 29-Teutons cross Zlota Lipa.
Sept. 2-Germany announces 100000
Russians captured since May l. Lutsk is
taken. New York sterling exchange
drops to $50
Sept. 3-Russians lose Brody
Sept. 4-Russians give up Grodno. Brit
ish slaughtered in attempt to storm Hill
70.
Sept. 6-Hesperian torpedoed. Ameri-
cans killed. Russians check Teutons on
the Dvina and Sereth rivers.
Sept. Scar Nicholas takes command
OF all the Russian armies In the field.
Sept 7-s-Two Zeppelin raids on Lon
don: 80 killed.
Sept 10-As Teutons take Dubno, czar
wins victory near Tarnopol and Trem-
bowla.
Sept. 12--Russians drive Teutons back
II miles in Galicia.
Sept. 17-Von Mackensen seiZes Pinsk.
Sept 1-Germans take Wilma.
Sept 26-Russians recapture Lutsk.
Sept N-French In two day battle ad-
vance on wide front in Champagne. while
British attack south OF La Bassee Canal
Oct. .Germans announce ., 900 Rus
SLAMS were captured in September.
Oct. 5-Germans estimate allied loss in
futile West front offensive at 10000 men,
Oct. 7-Bulgaria sends ultimatum to
Serbia.
Oct s-Teutons begin great Invasion of
Serbia.
Oct. 10-Teutons occupy Belgrade.
Oct 13-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three
points. Fifty-five killed by Zeppelin raid
on London.
Oct 2O-Russian recapture Czartorysk
Serbians lose Vranja.
Oct 22-Brand Whitlock. U. 8. minister
to Belgium. reports hurried execution OF
Edith Cave'l. English nurse.
Oct. 25-Bugarians capture Uskub.
Oct. 2J-Germans storm Illuxt.
Oct 2S-Bulgarians and Teutons effect
Junction in Serbia
Nov. 2Austfo- Germans take Kragu-
jevac.
Nov 4-Ttrst of German mo meat"
days
Nov 7-Bulsarians take Nish. Serbian
war capital.
Nov. lo-ltalIan liner Ancona sunk with
large loss OF life.
Nov. 22-serbians begin retreat into
Montenegro.
Nov. 25-British defeated IS miles from
Bagdad.
Nov E-1talians land at Avlona, Al
bania.
Nov. 2sIGermans announce operations
against Serbia have ended In complete
success.
Dec. New war council with all allies
Re represented meets at Paris.
Dec. 10-German chancellor makes peace
bid in reichstag speech.
Dec. 10-Turks begin Siege OF kut-el-
Amara.
Dec. 1s-sIr Douglas Haig assumes COM
mand OF British in France
Dec. 3-Ford peace band reaches Chris
tiania with delegates quarreling.
Dec. 2-Lloyd-George declares Britain
faces defeat unless greater efforts are
made.
Dec 2s-Lloyd-George threatens to re-
sign unless conscript!on is adopted.
Dec. 3l-1talians occupy Durazzo. Al
bania.
Jan. 2. 1s16-word received liner Persia
sunk In Mediterranean: two Americans
lost.
Jan. Germans abandon CAMERON
colony. West Africa Russians take Ger
nowitz.
Jan. 6-Conscription bill passes first
reading in house Of commons.
Jan. british complete evacuation of
Gallipoli
Jan. S-Russians take Czartorysk.
Jan. 2p-Zeppe!tns kill q IN Paris. Ger
mans take two miles OF trenches at Pc
rome.
Feb. 1-Zeppelns raid Liverpool and
other British cities; kill 50.
Feb. 2-Germans bring British prize
steamer Appam into Hampton Roads.
Feb. 17-Russians capture Erzerum.
Feb. 2I-German drive at Verdun begins
Feb. 23-Czar visits Duma for first time
in history.
Feb. 24-Germans announce two mile
advance at Verdun.
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