The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-08-16

October 9.--Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1O.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.--Allies eyacuate Gal
lipoli.
February IA, 1915 Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April Parish revolt in Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged In Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battle Of Jutland IA Brit
ish and 10 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 merchantmen
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August 9.-Italians take Gorilla.
July 10-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 1O.-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Blu
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December 81. 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 2e.-British capture Kut-
el-Amara.
February Zimmerman 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 9.-Austria-Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-British storm Vimy Ridge.
April 1O-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-French in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
PASS selective 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 1913 killed, 430 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 28.-Brazil joins in war.
June 3O.-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-two German air
planes Of immense new type XIII 4o,
iniure 1877, in London.
July S.-Wllson orders export en-
barge.
Jnlv 12.-Chinese empire falls;
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation 10
Peking.
July 13.-In biggest air battle so far
british claim downing Of 80 German
planes on west front
Julv 14.-Von Eathmann-Hollweg