The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-02

Pinsk-high tide In invasion OF RUSSIA.
September 24-25.-Allies In drive In
France capture $4,000.
October 5.-Allies land at Salonik.
October 9.-Germans 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. 1918.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdA.
offensive.
April 18.-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 IS 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 Galicla.
August 9.-Italians take Gorilla.
July 10.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 28.-Roumania enters war on
side Of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvanla.
September 6.-Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 1O.-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 p. 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 28.-Zlmmermann note
suggesting alliance Of Mexico and
Japan with Germany against United
States made public.
March 1l.-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 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 10.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-Freneh in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks 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 british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard In London.
June 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June 12.-King Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 13.-153 killed, 43O 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 28.-Braxil joins In war.
June SC.-Russians begin big often