The Irish standard., 1916-01-08

demand Germany make reparation for
deaths Of Americans resulting from SUBJ
marine attacks and give guarantees
against repetition of offense.
May R.-British battleship Goliath tor
pedoed In Dardanelles, 500 lost.
May 13.-President Wilson'S note to Ger
many cabled.
May T.-Zeppelin attacked English
coast towns and was driven off and Grip
pied by aeroplanes
May 2l.-French won entire Lorette hill
north OF Arras after six months of con-
tinuous fighting.
May N.-Russian battleship Pantelei-
mon sunk In Black sea with 1,4OO men.
May 23-Italy declared war against
Austria Hungary.
May 25.-1taly invaded Austria at head
OF Gulf of Venice. selling four towns.
british warship Triumph sunk by tor
pedo in Dardanelles.
May S.-American steamer Nebraskan.
from Liverpool without cargo, struck and
crippled by torpedo off Irish coast.
!tafy invaded the Trentino.
May 7.-British battleship Majestic de-.
stroyed by torpedo in Dardane1ies.
British auxiliary steamship Princess
irene blown up in Sheerness harbor, 400
lives lost.
May ao.-German reply to Wilson note
received at Washington and declared
eVaSlV0.
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 l5.-Austro-Germans, advancing
On ,hemoerg, captured Mosciska.
AIMED aeroplane fleet bombarded Karls-
fuhe, killing q persons.
zeppelin raided English northeast coast,
killing 16 persons
June 16-Russians driven over e.a,,c,or
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.-1taly broke diplomatic rela-
tons with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
by Germans. 20 Americans lost.
June 3o.-Russians began retreat from
Vtstula river In Poland
July 7.-Twenty allied aeroplanes raided
Bruges. destroying docks.
y. 3. navy department seized German
wireless plant at Sayville, L. l.. for
breaches of neutrality.
July S.-Germany's reply to American
note on submarine warfare unyielding in
most important particulars.
July Sherman 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.-1talian cruiser Giuseppe Carl
oaldi sunk by Austrian submarine.
July 2.-American reply to Germany.
Teaff1rming 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 3o.-Austrians occupied Lubltn.
July S1.-Leyland liner Iber1an sunk nv
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. 6-1vangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug. 9.-British cruiser India and de-
stroyer Lynx sunk.
Turkish battlcship 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. 8. rejected Austro- Hungar-
ian views on shipment of war supplies,
Aug. u.-British submarines entered
Black sea and torpedoed the Breslau and
Goeben.
Aug. 14-British troopshfp ROYAL Ed.
ward sunk by submarine in Aegean sea:
300 lost.
Aug. 17.-Gernaans took fortress Of Kov-
no.
Greek cabinet resigned and venizelos
was invited to form new ministry.
U. S. accepted German offer of compen-
satfon in Frye case
Zeppelins raided British east coast
killing ten civilians.
Aug. 19.-Whfte Star liner Arabic, Liv-
erpool for Boston, torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine off 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 Novo-
georgievsk
Aug 21.-1taly 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.-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, 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