Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-14

May lL-Cabinst decided q. 8. shout
demand Germany make reparation 10
deaths OF Americans resulting from sui
marine attacks and give guarantee
against repetition OF ofense.
May l2-Brltish hattleshlp Goliath tor
pedoed in Dardanelles. 900 lost.
May B-PresldeHt Wilson's note TO Ger
many Catled
May T~-Zeppelln attacked Englls.
cohst towns and was driven off and Grip
pied hF ncropinues.
/, Mag 2l-French won entire Lorette hi
NORTH Of Arras after SIX months Of con
u|nUous fighting
May e Russian battleshlp Pantelei
mon sunk in Black sea with I.#1 men
May &-Italy declared war agains
Austria Hungary.
May a.-ltaly invaded Austria at head
Of CUFF Of Venice. SEEING four towns
British warshlp Triumph sunk by tor
peG" In burdauollcs
May &-Amerlcan steamer Nebraskan
trom Liverpool without cargo, struck and
crippled by torpedo OF Irish coast.
llaly Invaded the Trcntino.
May 2I-Britlsh buttleshlp Majestic de.
sirHycd by torpedo In DarGanclles.
British auxiliary steamship Princess
f'F'' ~ 80 t'tsf'i b'Ha nut bDA1 ~
lives lost.
May D-German reply 10 Wilson note
received ut Washington and declared
e~Vusive.
May 3l-German ZeppelIns made raid
on London
june 3-Przemysl rccaptured by Ger
mans and Austrians.
June ll-Italians took Gradlsca and
other important towns.
June 6-Austro-Germans. advancing
on Iemhcrg, captured Mosciska,
Allied aeroplane fleet bombarded Karls-
ruhe, killing q persons.
Zeppelin raided English northeast coast,
Killing Ii persons.
June l8-Rusaians driven over GalicIan
border.
Germany called 100. 900 young trained
men to tho colors.
June H.-Austro-Germans took Rawa
ltuska from Russians.
General De Wet found guilty Of trea-
son.
June @.-Lembcrg captured by Austro-
Germans.
French took German work called the
Labyrinth. west Of Lens.
June 2&-Italy broke diplomatic reIa-
lions with Turkey.
Dominion freight liner Armenian sunk
by Germans 20 Americans lost,
June 90 Russians began retreat from
Viatula river IN Poland.
July Twenty allied aeroplanes raIded
Bruges, destroying docks
u. s. navy department seized German
wireless plant at Sayville, L. l., for
breaches OF neutrality.
July &-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
Bothn.
British liner ordnna. bringing Ameri-
canH home from Europe, attacked by
German submarine with torpedo and
shells.
July B.-Italian crulser Giuseppe Carl
baldi sunk by Austrian submarine.
July &.-American reply to Germany.
Teafirming former stand, sent to Berlin,
Terrible maasacres of Armenians by
Turks reported.
july 70, American steamer Leelanaw
by German submarine; crew saved
July T-Austrians made air raid on
Verona.
July 3o.-Austrians occupied Lublin.
July 3l.-Leyland liner Iberlan sunk bv
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. b.--Warsaw occupied by the Ger |
mans.
Aug 6-1vangorod taken by Austro-
Germans.
Aug. British cruiser India and de-
Lynx sunk.
Turkish battleship Kheyr-Ed-Din Bar
sunk by submarine In Darda-
nelles.
Germans occupied Praga,
2eppelins raided English east coast.
Killing Is: one Zeppelin destroyed.
Aug. 10.-U. s rejected Austro- Hungnr-
views on shipment OF war supplies,
Aug. ll,-British submarines entered
Black sea and torpedoed the Breslau and
Aug. A-British troopship Royal Ed
ward sun by submarine In Aegean sen:
200 lost.
Aus. T.-Germans took fortress Of Kov-
no.
Greek cabinet resigned and Venizelos
was invited to form new ministry.
L. = accepted German offer Of compen-
In Frye case.
2eppelIns raided British east co,st
iillins ten civilians.
Aug. 10 -White Star liner Arabic. Ijv-
'rpool for Boston. torpedoed and sunk nv
submarine OF Irish coast: Is lost
including two Americans.
Aug, 20 German fleet engaged Russian
fleet In Gulf OF Riga. each side losinp sev-
aral vessels.
Germans took Russian fortress OF Novo-
ycorgievsk
Aug 2l.-Italy declared war on T,,rkev
German cruiser sunk by British sub
In Baltic sea.
British seaplane ank loaded Turkish
,roopship In Ser OF Marmora,
Germans captured Bielsk, Russia.
Aug. 23.-Germanr occupied Russ,or
OF Ossowets.
Aug. 2,-Germans took Bialystok and
Aug. 2c'-Germans captured Russian
fortress o Olta.
Germany declared the sinking Of the
II done by German submarine
was decidedly condemned by the German
and fun reparatlon would be
made.
Aug. a-Adolphe Pcgoud, notice French
aviator, killed in action.
Germans took Russian fortrs.s
.Utsk.
Sept, 2~.-Germany offered to submit m
sitania and Arabic compensation cIoi,Mo
10 The Hague tribunal.
Russians evacuated Grodno.
Papers involving Dumba and Rernstorn
,aken by British from ]. l.. ]. Archibald
sept Altar liner Hesperian torpedoed
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