Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-08-11
CHIEF EVENTS OF
WARS SECOND YEAR
ug. 1-Teutons take I4ublin.

Aug. 1-Teutons take l1ublin.
Aug. 2-Teutons take Cholm announce
10000 Russians captured in July.
Aug. 6-Germans capture Warsaw!
Aug. 7-Teutons take Ivangorod.
Aug. 9-Germans take Serock.
Aug. 1O-Great Britain starts register
of all men,
Aug. 11-Germans take Lomza.
Aug. 12-Allies land $4,000 more men on
Gallipoli.
Aug. 14-Germans take Siedlce and Soko-
low.
Aug. 1s-Teutons start Belgrade bonn
bardment
Aug. 19-Russians lose Kovno. Zeppelins
kill ten in Lo1-dons 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 28-Germans take Olita.
Aug. 29-Teutons cross Zlota Lipa.
Sept 2-Germany announces 100000
Russians captured since May /. Lutsk is
taken. New York sterling exchange
drops to $3.50.
Sept. 3-Russians lose Brody.
Sept, Russians give up Grodno. Brit
ish slaughtered in attempt to storm Hill
Sept. 6--Hesperian torpedoed. 2 Aneri-
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; 30 killed.
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 adj
vance on wide front in Champagne, while
British attack south of La Bassee Canal.
Oct. 2Germans announce $1,000 Rus
slams were captured in September.
Oct. 5-Germans estimate allied loss in
futile West front offensive at 10000 men.
Oct. bulgaria sends u1timatum to
Serbia.
Oct. S-Teutons begin great invasion Of
Serbia.
Oct. 1O-Teutons occupy Belgrade.
Oct 1o-Bulgaria invades Serbia at three
points. Fifty-ive killed by Zeppelin raid
on London.
Oct 2O--Russian recapture Czartorysk.
Serbians lose Vranja.
Oct. 22-Brand Whit1ock, u. S. minister
to Belgium, reports hurried execution of
Edith Cavell, English nurse.
Oct 25-Bulgarians capture Uskub.
Oct 25-Germans storm Illuxt.
Oct 2S-Bulgarians and Teutons effect
junction in Serbia.
Nov. 2-Austro-Germans take Kragu-
jevac.
Nov. 4HFirst of German mo meat
days
Nov. 7--Bulgarians take Nish. Serbian
war capital.
Nov 1O-Italian liner Ancona sunk with
large loss of life.
Nov. 22-Serbians begin retreat into
Montenegro.
Nov. 25-British defeated 1S miles from
Bagdad.
Nov. galatians land at Avlona, AL
bania.
Nov. 29-Germans announce operations
success.
Dec. New war council with all allies
represented meets at Paris.
Dec. 1O-German chancellor makes peace
bid in reichstag speech.
Dec. 10-Turks begin siege Of Kut-el-
Amara.
Dec. 16-Sfr Douglas Haig assumes COM
nand of British in France.
Dec. 20-Ford peace band reaches Chris
tiania with delegates quarreling.
Dec. 21-Lloyd-George declares Britain
faces defeat unless greater efforts are
made.
Dec. 28-Lloyd-George threatens to re-
sign unless CONSUMPTION is adopted.
Dec. 31-Italians occupy Durazzo, Al
bania.
Jan. 2, 1s1s-word received liner Persia
sunk in Mediterranean; two Americans
lost.
Jan. A. Germans abandon CAMERON
colony, West Africa. Russians take Ger
nowitz.
ian. transcription bill passes first
reading in house of commons.
Jan. british complete evacuation of
Gallipoli.
Jan. 8-Russians take Czartorysk.
Jan. 2O-Zeppelins kill % in Paris. Ger
mans take two miles of trenches at Pc
rome.
Feb. 1-Zeppelins raid Liverpool and
other British cities; kill So.
Feb. 2-Germans bring British prize
steamer Appam into Hampton Roads.
Feb. 17-Russans capture Erzerum.
Feb. 21-German drive at Verdun begins.
Feb. 2S-Czar visits Duma for first time
in history.
Feb. 2EGermans announce two mile
advance at Verdun.
Feb. 27-Germans capture Fort Douau-