Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-31
PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THIRD :
YEAR OF WORLDS GREATEST WAR

the army draft without disorder. Gen,
eral Brusiloff made head of Russian
armies.
June British blow up Messines
Ridge; explosion heard in ondon,
5,t90 prisoners taken on first day of
offensive.
June S-General Pershing, com.
mander of American expedition, ar.
rives in England Secretary of War
Baker plans for 100000 American
aviators arrive in France
June 9.--Wilson tells Russia what
United States is fighting for. Japan
offended by United States note urging
China to maintain order.
June 1l.-Lord Northcliffe, fame, S
publisher, arrives to coordinate Brit.
ish passions in United States.
June liking Constantine Of
qGreeee abdicates in favor of his sec.
ond son, Alexander. at command Of
the Allies.
June an greatest air raid so far
on London 1913 are killed and 430 in
jured Pershng reaches Paris. Eli
hn Root and American mission in
Petrograd.
June 15.-Liberty Loan oversub
scribed. Great Britain frees all the
Irish rebels
June l7--Dr. Ivers, who wrote Ger.
many's official reply to the Belgian
atroclty charges. is sentenced to nine
months Imprisonment in Berlin for ex.
torting 100000 from the mother of a
soldier by threats, Evidence shows he
is q chronic drunkard and morphine
iiend Inma demands immediate of
fensve by Russian troops.
June l9.-llnted States Admiral
Sims put in command of Allied fleet
off Ireland
June % Announced Liberty Loan
subscriptions total s3,035, $50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
the hundred million dollars sought.
June %. Official Mesopotamian re.
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
Of Lens, great French coal center.
June 21,-Arriyal off 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 29.--Grecce breaks diplomatic
relations with the Central Powers.
June S0--Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia, War Minister Ke.
rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile
on four-mile front before Lens.
July Washington announces
United States Is ready to equip army
Of 100000.
July Russian prisoners counted
In her offensive number 1923. Chin.
csc empire established.
July 3.--Goyernment tells of two
submarine attacks on transports beal.
ing Persh'ng's men: one U.boat sunk.
Russia announces G,00O more prison.
ers. Germans make vain ilve.mie Of
fensive at Nerdun,
July A. Eleven killed in German air
raid on Harwich. n
July 5-Republicans and monarch.
lists battle thrty.nve miles from PEEK.
ing.
July G.--Leaders of German spy sys.
tenn In United States arrested
July 7.-Twentytwo German Gotha
aeroplanes mounting four guns each.
raid London, killing AZ and injuring
1877.
July S,-~Wilson orders export ON.
barge on food, fuel and many other
things to prvent supplies reaching
Germany. British Foreign Office
states German crops this Summer will
not be above 40 per cent Of normal.
United States Shipping Board states
expects to build 100000 to 5000 900
tons in eighteen months, instead of
Z he, s !, eaGo TO QSkjEIsinally
July p British dreadnaught Van.
guard blown up; all but two aboard
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