The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-08-03

| September 2425.-Allies In drive In
France capture 5000.
October 6.-Allies land at Salonih.
October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 10.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 0.-Germany announces
Serbia Is entirely conquered.
December 10.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipou.
February IA. 191e.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 2S.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 18.-Russians take Treblzond.
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged In Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia. surrender.
May 3O.-Battle Of Jutland; II Brit
ish and IS German warships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire il 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 Gorizia.
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 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.
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 28.-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 16.-Czar abdicates.
March 17.-Germans begin big
strategic retirement" on west front.
April 3.-Wilson asks congress to
April 6.-President signs congress
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war ON Ger
many.
April 0.-Austria- Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April o.-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 submarine. this being
the first American victory Of the war.
April 28.-Both houses Of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
May 15-Big Italian Offensive IN
Carso begins.
June Chinese royalists name
Chang Esun 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 liking 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.-Russians begin big often
sive In Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established: republicans prepare tn re-