Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-08-24
8. Guatemala breaks on relations with

Germany.
April 29.-Petain chosen to lead
French armies In place Of Nivelle.
Joffre asks United States army In
France without delay. q.
May Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $2.OO0.OOO,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.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French in second battle of
the Aisne take 6.1OO prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise 1000
engineers here for work in France.
May 1O.-Critical situation in Rus
sia and civil war Is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States lO24;5 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,OO0,OOO men,
aged twenty-one to thirty-One years,
TO register June 8. Italians announce
6,4S2 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
COrsO offensive, taking 1900 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill 16
persons In Dover and FOlkestOne.
May 26.-Germany announces she
will sink hospital ships without
warning unless they obey certain strict
rules about the courses they take. An
nOunced Italy has captured 22.4l4 Aus
TRANS since May IA.
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
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5000 prisoners taken on first day of
offensive.
June S.-General Pershing. COM
mander of American expedition, ar
rives in England. Secretary of War
Baker plans for 100000 American air
planes. One hundred American avia-
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 Fixing Constantine OF
: Greece abdicates in favor Of his sec
2 Ond son, Alexander, at command of the
allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid so faI
: on London. 153 are killed and 43O in
: jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu
Root and American mission in Pc
trOgrad.
8 June 15.-Liberty loan Oversub
l. scribed. Great Britain frees all the
T Irish rebels.
Germany's official reply to the Bel
l gian atrocity charges, Is sentenced t.
= nine months Imprisonment in BerliI
!. for extorting $4,000 from the mothel
of a soldier by threats; evidence
q shows he is a chronic drunkard apt
morphine fiend. Duma demands imme
n date offensive by, Russian troops.
: June 19.-United States Admira
4 Sims put In command of allied flee
J. off Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty LOAF
+ subscriptions total $3,035, 226.S50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
l. paign closes, with subscriptions owe
the hundred million dollars sought.
- June 26.-Official MesOpOtamian re
r. port scores British civil and militar
!. leaders. Canadians within one mil
r of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival of first Unite
IS States army in France announced.
d June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by al
p nulling her decree of neutrality b,
II tween the entente nations and Gel
,e many.
T. June 29.-Greece breaks diplomat
relations with the central powers.
" June 3O.-Russians begin big Offer
r. siye in Galicia. War Minister X,
f rensky leads attack. Haig gains mil
d. on four-mile front before Lens.
c. July Washington announce
IF United States is ready to equip arm
of 100000.
n July 2.-Russian prisoners counte
,e in her offensive number 1928. Chi
csc empire re-established.
H. July 3.-GOvernment tells of tv
submarine attacks on transports bea
to ing Pershing's men; one U-bOat sun
Russia announces 6,OOO more prisO
f. ers. Germans make vain five-mile Q
Id fensive at Verdun.
rs July 4.-Eleven killed In Germs
air raid on Harwich.
n July 5.-Republicans and monarc
is lists battle 35 miles from Picking.
al July 6.-Leaders Of German spy sy
tenn In United States arrested.
w July 7.-Twenty-twO German Cot
airplanes. mounting four guns eac
o. raid London, killing 43 and injuril
1t 1871.
st July S.-Wilson orders export e.
barge on food, fuel and many 9th
tie things to prevent supplies reachi