The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-08-02


France capture $4,000.
October 5.-Allles land at Saloniki.
October 9.--Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 10-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February a. Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 1S-RGssians take Treblzond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged In Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamla, surrender.
May 30.-Battle of Jutland; IA Brit
ish and IS 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 0.-Submarne merchantmen
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galica.
August 9.--Italians take Gorilla.
July 10-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 29.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumanla.
November 10-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German alrplanes 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 26.-British capture Kut-
el-Amara.
February 2S.-ZimmermaLn note
suggesting alliance of Medco 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 II.
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-H Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.--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 submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
pass selectlve draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
June 3.--Chincse 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 S.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June Fixing 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 30.-Russlans begin big often
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensly in person.
July 2.-Chlnese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
sist.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
injure 1877, in London.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge.
July 12.--Chinese empire falls;
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation In
Picking.
July 13.-In biggest air battle so far
British claim downing of 30 German