The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-08-04

October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1o.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia Is entirely conquered.
December 10-Allies evacuate CAL
lipoli.
February "a, Y016.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 1s.ZRussians take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged In Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 3O.-Battle of Jutland; II Brit
ish and 10 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 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 9.-Italians take Gorilla.
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 1O.-First great air bat
tie Of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German airplanes brought
| down.
December 5.-Teatons take Bu-
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December q. 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 leagte 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 2e.-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 startas
March 15.-Czar abdicates.
March 17.-Germans begin biz
strategic retirement" on west front.
April 3.-Wilson 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-H 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
COLA 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 7.-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, 43O injured ip
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scription.S
June 27.-Announce arrival of first
American army in France.
June 28.-Brazil joins In war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big offen-
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
sist.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air.
planes Of immense new type kill 43,