The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-08-02
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Germany.
April 29.-Petain chosen to lead
French armies in place of Nivelle.
Jonre asks United States army in
France without delay.
May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $2,O0O,0OO,OOO. Sec
rotary of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush,
Armenia, to the Turks.
May 3.-News received of mistreat-
ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
MAJ 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French In second battle of
the Aisne take 6,1OO prisoners.
May 1-Qrders given to raise 1900
engineers here for work in France.
May 10.-Critical situation in Rus
STA and civil wal is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1924 500 tons of ship
ping building for her here.
May 15.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May 16.-Announced squadron Of
American destroyers is assisting the
British; U-boat losses sink to 26 in
week.
May 1S.-President proclaims con-
scription law, calling on 1O,OOO,OOO men,
aged twenty-one to thirty-one years,
to register June 5. Italians announce
6,432 prisoners.
May 25.-1taly launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill 78
persons in Dover and Folkestone.
May 26.-Germany she
will sink hospital ships without
warning unless they obey certain strict
rules about the courses they take. An
nounced Italy has captured 22,414 Aus
TRANS since May II.
June 3.-General Chang Hsun named
dictator by royalists Of China.
June 5.-United States registers for
the army draft without disorder.
General Brusiloff made head of Rus
sian armies.
June british blow up Messines
AAN5S SAploolOA A1Cllu III AOlluOu
5000 prisoners taken ON first day of
offensive.
June S.-General P~ershing, com
!. mander of American expedition, ar.
rives in England. Secretary of War
Baker plans for 100000 American air.
) planes. One hundred American avia.
t tors arrive in France.
June 9.-Wilson tells Russia what
United States is fighting for. Japan
offended by United States note urg.
ing China to maintain order.
June 11.-Lord Northcliffe, famous
. publisher, arrives to coordinate Brit
ish missions in United States.
June liking Constantine OF
Greece abdicates in favor of his sec
. ond son, Alexander, ut command of the
allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid so fal
: on London, 1873 are killed and 43O in
! jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Eth,
Root and American mission in Pc
trograd.
June 15.-Liberty loan oversub
scribed. Great Britain frees oil til,
Irish rebels.
June 17.-Doctor Ivers, who wrot,
Germany's official reply to the Bel
nine months Imprisonment in Berli1
/. for extorting $4,000 from the mother
Of a soldier by threats; evidenc,
shows he is q chronic drunkard ant
morphine fend. Duma demands imme
date offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admira
Sims put in command Of allied flee
off Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty LOAF
: subscriptions total $3,O35, 1896 1850.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
: paign closes, with subscriptions ovel
the hundred million dollars sought,
$ June 26.-Ohicial Mesopotamian re
port scores British civil and militar!
leaders. Canadians within one mile
of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival OF FIRST United
States army in France ~announ:al
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by az
nulling her decree of neutrality be
tween the entente nations and Ger
many.
: June 29.-Greece breaks diplomat,
relations with the central powers.
' June 30.-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia. War Minister he
: rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile
on four-mile front before Lens.
: July 1.-Washington announce:
f United States is ready to equip army
Of 100000.
: July Russian prisoners counted
in her offensive number 1928. Chin
csc empire re-established.
July 3.-Government tells Of two
submarine attacks on transports bear
ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sunk
Russia announces 5000 more prison
ers. Germans make vain five-mile of
fensive at Verdun.
July 4.-Eleven killed in German
air raid on Harwich.
: July 5.-Republicans and monarch
lists battle IS miles from Picking.