Gilpin observer., 1917-08-02

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France capture $4,000.
October 6.-Allies land at Saloniki.
October 9.-Germans O. occupy Bel
grade.
October 10.-Bulgaria attacks Ser.
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February IA. 191e.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 18.-Russians take TrebizOnd,
Turkey.
April M.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara. Mesopotamia. surrender.
May 30.-Battle of Jutland; "A Brit
ish and 1s German warships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed
north Of Scotland.
June 17.-Russians retake Czerno-
witz, capital Of Bukowina, in great Of
fensive.
June 2O.-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 Gorizia.
July 10.-Russians take Stanislau,
GaIicia.
August 2S-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September 6.-Germany g. begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
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 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 S.-United States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 28-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 7.-Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austria- Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April e.-British storm vimy Ridge.
April 10.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16-French in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 10.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks a 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 7.-British blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London.
June 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine Of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 13.-153 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 2S.-Brazil joins In war.
June 80-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.