The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-08-16

OctoDcr D.-AilleS Nnu mt SnlOnlkl.
October 0.-Gcrmnns occupy Bel
grade.
October 1~0.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 0.-Germany
Serbia Is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacunte Gal
lipoli.
February IA, 10l6.-Russians capture.
Erzerum. Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take Trebizond,.
Turkey.
April 24.-Irlsh revolt In Dublin.
April 2S.-BrItish besIegcd In Kut.el-
Amara, Mesopotamla, surrender.
May 30.-Battle Of Jutland; II Brit
ish and 1S German wnrships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire Is torpedoed
north Of Scotland.
June 17.-Russlnns retake Czerno-
WITT, capital OF Bukowina. In great Of
f~ensive.
June 20.-Arnbs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
llshed.
June 27.-Brltish and French In
great drive In west.
July 9.-Submarine merchantmann
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August Galatians take Gorizia.
July 10.-Russians take Stanislaur
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumnnia enters war on
side Of the entente, and invades Tran
~sylvania.
September 8.-Germany begins great
squeeze OF Roumania.
November 1O.-First great mir bat
tie Of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Blu
charcst.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December 81. - President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January II, 1o17.-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.-Germnny declares ruth
less submarine warfare OF 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 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 n state Of war with Germany.
April 8~.-President signs congress
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austria- Hungary brenbs
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-BritIsh storm yimy Ridge.
Aprll 10.-Brnzil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-Frcnch In great offensive
a Aisne river.
April 19.-Amcrican freighter Mon
golia sinks n submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses Of congress
pass selectlve draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive In
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chincse 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. 430 injured In
London by German airplane raid.
June l5.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scrlption.
June 27.--Announce arrival Of first
American army In France.
June 2S.-Brazil Joins In war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big Often
sive In Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky In person.
July 2.-Chincse empire declared re-
established republicans prepare to re-
slst.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,