The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-08-16

French armies In place OF Nivelle.
Joffre asks United States army In
France without delay.
May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $1,000, 100000. Sec
retary of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinklngs 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.-French take Cruonne from
Germans.
May G.-Erench In second battle OF
the Aisnc take 6,I0O prisoners.
May 7.-Ordcrs given to raise 1900
engineers here for work In France.
May 10.-Critical situation In Rus
sia and civil wal Is feared.
May 1i.-Great Britain turns owe
to United States 1.02t. 500 tons Of ship
ping building for her here.
May 1J.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May I6.-Announced squadron Of
American destroyers Is assisting the
British; U.boat losses sink to 70 In
week.
May 1S.-Presidcnt proclaims con
scription law, calling on 10.OOO.O0O men,
! aged twenty-one to thlrty-one years,
to register June 8. Italians
6.432 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 1900 prisoners
first day. German alrplnnes kill 90
persons In Dover and Folkestone.
May 26.-Germany %nounc she
will sink hospital ships without
warning unless they obey certain strict
rules about the courses they take. An
nounced Italy has captured 22,4lI Aus
TRANS since May II.
June 3.-Gcncral Chang Hsun named
dictator by royalists Of China.
June 5.-United States registers for
the army draft without disorder.
General Brusllof made head Of Rus
sian armies.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard In London
5000 prisoners taken on first day Of
offensive.
June S.-Gencral P%crshing, COM
mander OF American expedition, mr.
rives In England. Secretary OF Val
Baker plans for 100000 American air
planes. One hundred American avla-
tors arrive in France.
June 9.-Wllson tells Russia what
United States Is fighting for. japan
offended by United States note urg-
ing China to maintain order.
June 1l.-Lord Northclife. famous
publisher, arrives to coordinate Brit
ish missions In United States.
June liking Constantine Of
Greece abdicatcs in favor Of his Sec
ond'son, Alexander. at command OF the
allies.
June 13.-In greatest mir raid so far
on London, 1913 are killed and 430 in
jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu
Root and American mission In Pc
trograd.
June 15.-Liberty loan oversub-
scribed. Great Britain frees all the
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 $4,000 from the mother
Of a soldier by threats; evidence
shows he Is a chronic drunkard and
morphine fend. Duma demands lmne-
dla,e offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admiral
Sims put In command of allied fleet
or Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty loan
subscriptions total S3,035, 226, $50.
June 25.-Americnn Red Cross cam
paign closes. with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26.-Oniciul Mcsopotamlan 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 2S.-Brazil joins in war by an
nulling her decree of neutrality be-
tween the entente nations and Ger
many.
June 20.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers.
June 30.-Russians begin big Often
slvc In Gullcla. War Minister Ke-
rensky leads attack. IIaig gains mile
on four-mile front before Lens.
July 1.-Washington announce
United States Is ready to equip army
OF 100000.
July 2.-Russian prisoners counted
In her offensive number 1929. Chin.
ese empire re-established.
July 3.-Governinent tells Of two
submarine attacks on transports bear.
Ing Pershing's men one U-boat sunk.
Russia 6,0O0 more prison
ers. Germans make vain ive-mile Of
rcnsive at Vcrdun.
July 4.-Eleven killed In German
air raid on linrwich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch
lists battle 30 miles from Picking.
July 6.-Leaders OF German spy sys
TEN "a United States arrested.
July 7.-Twenty-two German Goth,
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