Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-24


October 1O.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipOli.
February IA. 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take TrebizOnd,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged In Kut-el-
Amara, MesOpotamia. surrender.
May 30.-Battle Of Jutland; IA 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-
WITT. 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 Galatians take Gorilla.
July 1O-Russians take Stanislau.
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
| September 6.-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 Blu
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December q. President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January u. 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 28.-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
"stratsgic retirement" on west front
April 3.-Wilson asks congress to
declare a state of war with Germany.
April e.-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 a submarine, this being
the first American victory Of the war
D April 2S.-Both houses Of congress!
mass selective draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive II
Carso begins.
June 3-Chinese royalists nam'
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assis
plot. .
June 5.-Americans register To-
army draft without disorder.
4 June british blow up Messine
ridge; explosion heard In London.
June S.-General Pershing reache
England.
J. lime Fixing Constantine o
Greece abdicates; nation prepares q
join allies. =.
June 1878 killed. 430 injured II
e London by German airplane raid.
n lime l5.-United States Libert
Loan closes, with billion oversuh
scriptiOn.
June 27.-Announce arrival OF mrs
!" American army In France.
June 2S.-Brazil joins In war.
. lime 3O.-Russians begin big oner
siye in Galicia led by War Ministe
r. Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared r.
h. established republicans prepare to n
IN sist.
Julv 7@Twenty-two German all
!, n,anes Of immense new type Kill A
injure 1877, in London.
w Ju,v s.-wilson orders export en-
barge. an.
a. Jnlv 12.-Chinese empire falls
chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation
IN Picking.
July 1s.-In biggest air battle SO "a
~ British claim downing OF 80 Germa
m planes on west front.
Ju,v 14.-von Bethmann-Hoilwe
. German imperial chancellor. resigr
l snfo (rR0Y