The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-08-04

october lO.-Bulgaria attacks Ser.
bia.
December 9.-Gcrmany announces
Serbia is entirely CONQUERED
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal.
lipoli.
February II, 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take Trebizond.
Turkey.
April 2i.-IriSh revolt i'm Dublin.
April 2S.-British besicged in Kut-el-
Amara. Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battlc of Jutland; II 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 merchantman
| 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-FirSt great air bat
tie of worlds history; 60 British.
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutops 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 ut 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-
cap vessels.
February 26.-Brltish 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 starts.
March 15.-Czar abdicates.
March 17.-Germans begin big
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- 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
yolia sinks a submarine. this being
he first American victory of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
PASS selective draft army bill.
May 15.-Big italian offensive In
Iarso begins.
June 3-Chinese royalists name
hang Hsun dictator; Germans assist '
dot.
June 5.-Americans register for
rmy draft without disorder. 1
June british blow up Messines
idge; explosion heard In London.
June S.-General Pershing reaches {
England. I
June Fixing Constantine Of
freeze abdicates; nation prepares to
DIN allies. 8
June 13.-153 killed, 400 injured in 7
.Ondon by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
,Oan closes, with billion Oversub- s
June 27.-Announce arrival Of first
american army in France. n
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war. .
June 3O.-Russians begin big Often
I've in Galicia led by War Minister
.erensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re.
established; republicans prepare to re-
st.
July T.-Twenty-two German air.
lanes of immense new type kill 43.
ijure 1877, in London.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-
argo.
July 12.-Chnese empire falls;
hang Hsun fees to Dutch legation in
eking.
July 13.-In biggest air battle so far
ritish claim downing Of 80 German
lanes on west front.