The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11

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October 5--Allies land at Saloniki.
October 9-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
october 1O-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19-AIlies evacuate Gal
lipolf
February Il. I916.-Russians capture
Erzerum. Turkey.
February 23Sr-Germans open Yerdun
offensive
April 1S.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, MesOpotamia, surrender.
May 3O-BattIe of Jutland: IA Brit
ish and IS German warshipS sunk.
June 5.-LOrd Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire is tOrpedoed
north of Scotland
June 1T.-Russians retake Czerno-
WITT, capital of Bukowina. in great Of
fensive
June 2O.-Arabs rebel from Tupkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
Hshed.
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-ItaIians take Gorilla.
July 1O.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 2S.-ROumania enters war on
side OF the entente, and fnvades Tran
sylvania.
September Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 1O.-First great air bat
tie Of worlds history; 67 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 Il. 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.-Wflson 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 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.-Americahs register for
army draft without disorder
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London
June S.-GeneraI Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares TO
join allies.
June 13.-153 killed, 40 injured in
London by German airplane raid
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion Ove-sub-
scription.
June 2T.-AnnOunce arrival Of first
American army in France
June 2S.-BrazfI joins in war.
June 3O-Russians begin big often
sive in GaIicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare 10 re-
sist-
July Twenty-Five German air.
planes Of immense new type kill 43,
injure 1917, in London
July s.-Wilson orders export en-
barge.
July 12.-Chinese empire falls;
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation in
Peking.
July 13-In biggest air battle so far
British claim downing of 80 German
planes on west front.
July 14-Yon Bethmann-Ho5lweg