Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-08-03

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grade.
October 1e.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
| December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.--Allies <evacuate Gal
lipoli.
| February IA, 1916.-RussianS capture
ErZerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take TrebizOnd,
Turkey
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battie of Jutiand; 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 9.-Submarine merchantmen
| Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 10.-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.AFirst great air bat
tie of worlds history; 67 British.
French and German airpIanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Bu-
charest
! December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December 21 - President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January IT, 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 2G.-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 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 6.-President signs congress
resolution prOclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austria-Hung 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 q 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 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.-GoDeFal IerSuluS TedCHcS
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
| join allies.
June 13.-153 killed, 430 injured I'm
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.-Brazil joins in war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
| Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
sist.
July Twenty-Five German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
| injure 1877, in London.
July 8.-Wtison orders export en-
| barge.
| July 12.-Chinese empire falls;
I'd. n Z III.