River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-08-02

October 0.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1O-Bulgarla attacks Ser
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 10.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February IA, 6.-Russians capture
ErZerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April Parish revolt In Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged In Kut-eI-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30-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 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 29.-ROumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 10.-First great air bat
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, 1317.-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 oil ships,
whatever nationality, in the war zones.
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 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.-Amercan freighter Mon
golia sinks q submarine, this being
the first American victory Of the war.
April 28.-Both houses Of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
May 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.
Jnne 8.-GeneraI 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.
Time 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scription.
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 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare TO re-
sist.
July TWENTY-FIVE German air.
n,anes Of immense new type kill 43,
iniure 1877, in London.
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