The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-15
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 1vangorod.
Aug. 9-Germans take Serock.
Aug. 10-Great Britain starts register
of all men.
Aug. 11-Germans take Lomza.
Aug. 2-Allies land $1,000 more men on
Gallipon.
Aug. 1+Germans take S;edlce and Soko-
low.
Aug. 16-Teutons start Belgrade bonn
bardment.
Aug. 19-Russians lose KoVno. Zeppelins
Kill ten in Lol-don suburbs.
Aug. 20-U-boat sinks liner Arabic, two
Americans killed.
Aug. 21-German seize Novogeorgievsk.
+. Aug. 24-Germans capture Ossowiec.
Aug. 25-Germans take Kovel.
Aug. 27-Brest-Litovsk falls.
Aug. 2S-Germans take Olita.
Aug. 29-Teutons cross Zlota Lipa.
Sept. 2-Germany announces LOO, 00C
Russians captured since May l. Lutsk is
taken. New York sterling exchange
drops to $3.50.
Sept 3-Russians lose Brody
Sept. 4-Russians give up Grodno. Brit
ish slaughtered in attempt to storm Hill
TO-
Sept. 6-Hesperian torpedoed, 2 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, car
wins victory near Tarnopol and Trem-
bowla.
Sept. 12-Russians drive Teutons back
IA miles in Galicia.
Sept. 17-Von Mackensen seizes Pinsk.
Sept. 20-Germans take Wilma.
Sept. 26-Russians recapture Lutsk.
Sept 27-French in two day battle ad-
vance on wide front in Champagne, while
British attack south of La Bassee Canal
Oct. 2-Germans announce 5000 Rus
slams were captured in September.
Oct. 5-Germans estimate allied loss in
futile West front offensive at 190,0OO men
Serbia.
Oct S-Teutons begin great invasion OF
Serbia
Oct 1o-Teutons occupy Belgrade
Oct. 13-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three
points. Fifty-fve killed by Zeppelin raid
on London.
Oct 20-Russian recapture Czartorysk
Serbians lose Vranja.
Oct. 22-Brand Whitlock, q. S. minister
to Belgium, reports hurried execution OF
Edith Cavell, English nurse.
Oct. 25-BulgarianS capture USkub.
Oct. 25-Germans storm Illuxt.
Oct 2SLBulgarians and Teutons effect
junction in Serbia.
Nov. 2-Austro-Germans take Kragu-
jevac.
Nov. LFirst of German mo meat
days.
Nov 7-Bulgarians take Nish, Serbian
war capital.
Nov. 10-Italian liner Ancona sunk with
large loss Of life.
Nov. 22-Serbians begin retreat into
Montenegro.
Nov 25-British defeated Is miles from
Bagdad.
Nov. N-Italians land at Avlona, AL
bahia.
Nov 29-Germans announce operations
against Serbia have ended in complete
success.
Dec New war council with all allies
represented meets 1T Paris.
Dec 10-Gernan chancellor makes peace
bid in reichstag speech.
Dec 10-Turks begin siege Of Kut-e1-
Amara.
Dec 16-Sir Douglas Haig assumes COM
mand of British in France.
Dec 2O-Ford peace band reaches Chris
tiania with delegates Quarreling
Dec. 21-Lloyd-George declares Britain
faces defeat unless greater efforts are
made.
Dec. 2S-Lloyd-George threatens to re-
sign unless CONSUMPTION is adopted
Dec 31-Italans occupy Dura zzo, AL
bania
Jan. 2, 1s16-Word received liner Persia
sunk in Mediterranean; two Americans
lost.
Jan. A. Germans abandon CAMERON
colony. West Africa. Russians take Ger
nowitz.
Jan. transcription bill passes first
reading in house of commons
Jan. british complete evacuation of
Gallipoli.
Jan. S-Russans take CzartoIysk.
Jan. 2o-Zeppelins kill % in Paris. Ger
mans take two miles of trenches at Pc
rome.
Feb. 1-Zeppe1ins raid Liverpool and
other British cities; Kill %.
Feb. 2-Germans bring British prize
steamer Appam into Hampton Roads.
Feb. I7-Russians capture Erzerum.
Feb. 2LGerman drive at Verdun begins
Feb. 23-Czar visits Duma for first time
In history.
Feb 24Germans announce two mile
advance at Verdun.
Feb. 27-Germans capture Fort Douau-