Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-08-03

| September 24-25.-AllieS in drive In
France capture $4,000.
October 5.-Allies land at Salonih.
| October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 10.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
1ipoli.
February IA, 1916-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 18.-Russians take Trebizond.
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt In Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 3O.-Battle 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 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.-RussiaAs retake Brody,
northern Galicia
August 9.-Italians take Gorilla.
July 10-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 28.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
| September 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.-Teutons take Bu-
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December p. 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 3.-United States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 26-President asks con-
gress for authority to arm all Ameri-
can vessels.
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 a state of war with Germany.
April president signs congress
resolution proclaimipg 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 submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April 28-Both houses of congress
pass selectiye draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists name
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist
plot. -'-'~'~4- :.
June 5.-Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
June 7-British blow up Messines
| ridge; explosion nearu IN LONDON.
June 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine OF
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1913 killed. 430 injured in
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scription. as
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 Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-