The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-02

B. Guatemala breaks off relations with Germany.
 April 29-Petain chosen to lead French armies in place of Nlvelle. Joffre asks United States army in France without delay.
 May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loan bond issue will be 000,000,000. See retary of State Lansing warns U-boat sinkings are serious.
 May 2.-Russians abandon Mush, Armenia, to the Turks
 May 3.-News received of mistreat- ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
 May 4.-Freneh take Craonne from I Germans.
 May 6.-French in second battle of the AiSne take 6,100 prisoners.
 May 7.-Orders given to raise 11,000 engineers here for work in France.
 May 10.-Critical situation in Rus sia and civil war is feared.
 May 14.-Great Britain turns over to United States 1,024, 800 tons of ship ping building for her here.
 May 15.-New Italian offensive be- gins.
 May 16.-Announced squadron of American destroyers is assisting the British; U-boat losses sink to 26 in week.
 May 1S.-President proclaims con- scription law, calling on 10000,000 men. aged twenty-One to thirty-one years, to register June 5. Italians announce 6,432 prisoners.
 May 25.-Italy launches renewed Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners first day. German airplanes kill 76 persons in Dover and Folkestone.
 May 26.-Germany announces she will sink hospital ships without warning unless they obey certain strict rules abopt the courses they take. An nounced Italy has captured 2,414 Aus trians since May If.
 June 3-General Chang Hsun named dictator by royalists of China.
 June 5.-United States registers for the army draft without disorder. General Brusiloff made head of Rus sian armies.
 June 7.-British blow up Messines | 5,000 prisoners taken on first day of offensive.
 June S-General Pershng, com mander of American expedition, ar rives in England. Secretary of War Baker plans for 100000 American air planes. One hundred American avia tors arrive in France. | O United States is fighting for. Japan l offended by United States note urg- l ing China to maintain order.
 June 11.-Lord Northcliffe. famous publisher, arrives to coordinate Brit ish missions in United States.
 June Fixing Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his sec ond son, Alexander, at command of the allies.
 June 13.-In greatest air raid so far on London, 153 are killed and 430 in- 1 jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu Root and American mission in Pe- l trograd.
 June 15.-Liberty loan Oversub- scribed. Great Britain frees all the l Irish rebels.
 June 17=Doctor Ivers, who wrote Germany's official reply to the Bel gian atrocity charges, is sentenced to nine months imprisonment in Berlin for extorting $30,000 from the mother of a soldier by threats; evidence shows he is chronic drunkard and morphine fiend. Dupa demands imme- diate offensive~by Russian troops.
 June 19-United States Admiral l Sims put in command of allied fleet off Ireland.
 June 22.-Announced Liberty loan subscriptions total $3,035, ,226, $50. June 25.-American Red Cross cam paign closes, with subscriptions over the hundred million dollars sought.
 June 26.-Official Mesopotamian re- port scores British civil and military leaders. Canadians within one mile of Lens, great French coal center.
 June 27.-Arrival of first United States army in France announced.
 June 28.-Brazil joins in war by an- nulling her decree of neutrality be- tween the entente nations and Ger many.
 June 29.-Greece breaks diplomatic relations with the central powers.
 June 30.-Russians begin big offen- sive in Galicia. War Minister Ke- rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile on four-mile front before Lens.
 July 1.-Washington announces United States is ready to equip army of 100000.
 July 2-Russian prisoners counted in her offensive number 10,273. Chin ese empire re-established.
 July 3.-Government tells of two submarine attacks on transports bear ing Pershing's men one U-boat sunk Russia announces 5000 more prison CTS. Germans make vain five-mile of ! e., rdrtp