The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-15

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Pinsk high tide "a. invasion of Rusnda.
September 24-2b lilies q drive IN
France capture q. 900.
October "a lilies land at Saloniki.
October 81 Germans occupy Bel
grade. 5 SIS
! October Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia. s...s-55s =s.8=s I'll.
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered. s.sE ise
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli. -
February ID, 1915. Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey. .ss...z.s. !.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive. 9.rs&<.;
| April 1s.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey. r., ...->
= April 24.-1rish revolt in Dublin. :.
April 28.-British besieged in Kut-el.
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 80.--Battle Of Jutland; IA Brit
ish and 10 German warships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire Is terpedoed
north Of Scotland. p,
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 28.-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 bait
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 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 at close of
war.
January 31.-Germany declares ruth
less submarine warfare on all ships,
whatever nationality, in the war zones.
February 9-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 28.-Zimmermann note
suggesting alliance Of Mexico and
Japan with Germany against United
States made public.
| March l1.-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
golia sinks a submarine, this being
the first American victory Of the war.
April 28.-Both houses Of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
Nav 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 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine OF
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1918 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. 80.
June 29.-Brazil joins in war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big often
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