Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07

France capture $4,000.
October 5.--Allies land at SaIoriEi.
Untober 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1O.-Bulgaria stacks Ser
bic
December 9.-Gerraany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19-Allies eyacuate Cal
IpolL
February IA, Russians capture
Erzerur, Turkey
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April lS.-Russians take Treb .zond,
Turkey
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged in Kpt-el.
Amara Mesopotamia, surrender.
MAY 30.-Battle of Jutland; IA Br:s.
ish and Is German warships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed
north Of Scotland.
June 17.-Russians retake Czerno-
WITT, capital of Bukowina, in great Of
fensive.
June 20.-Arabs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
lished.
June 27.-British and French in
great drive in west.
| July 9.-Submarine merchantnan
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 10.-Russians take StanisIau,
Galicia.
August 28.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 10.-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British.
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Bu-
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December. 21. - President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January II, 1917.-News received
German cruiser Moewe has taken "a
ships in South Atlantic.
January 22.-Wilson asking 'peace
without victory" demands United
States enter world league at close Of
war.
January 31-Germany declares ruth
less submarine warfare on all ships,
whatever nationality, in the war zones.
February 3.-United States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 26.-President asks con-
gress for authority to arm all Ameri-
can vessels.
February 26.-British capture Kut-
el-Amara.
February 2S.-Zimmermann note
suggesting alliance of Mexico and
Japan with Germany against United
States made public.
March 11.-British capture Bagdad.
March 11.-Russian revolution starts.
March 15.-Czar abdicates.
March 17-Germans begin big
strategic retirement" on west front.
April 3.-Wilson asks congress to
declare a state of war with Germany.
April 6.-President signs congress
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-British storm Vimy Ridge.
April 10.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-French in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks a submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April, 29.-Both houses of congress
pass selectiye draft army bill.
May \15.-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists name
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June 5-Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London.
June 9.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1873 killed, 43O injured In
London by German airplane raid
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scription.
June 27-Announce arrival Of first
American army in France.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war.
June 30.-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
sist.
July 7.-Twenty-tw German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
injure 1877, in London.
July 8.-Wilson orders export en-
barge.
July 12.-Chinese empire falls ;
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation in
Picking.
July 13.-In biggest air battle so far
British claim downing of 80 German
planes on west front.
July 14.-Von Bethmann-Hollweg,
German imperial chancellor, resigns
and the kaiser appoints DR.. Georg
Michaelis in his place.
July 19.-Russians in Galicia mu-
tiny and are routed by Germans.
July 20.-Draft for American Ma
tional army held.
July 20.-Premier Lvoff of Russia
resigns and Kerensky succeeds him.
July 21.-United States senate
passes food control and S640,000y00O
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