The Dermott news., 1917-08-02

$. Guatemala breaks off relations With Germany.
 April 29.-Petain chosen to lead Joffre asks United States army in France without delay.
 May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loan bond issue will be 5000. 100000. Sec retary 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 6l00 prisoners.
 May 7.-Orders given to raise 11,OO engineers here for work in France.
 May 10.-Crltical situation in Rus sin and civil war Is feared.
 May 14.-Great Britain turns over to United States 1.024 300 tons of ship ping building for her here.
 May 15.-New Italian offensive be gins.
 May 16.-Announced squadron o American destroyers Is assisting th' British; U-boat losses sink to 28 II week
 May 1S.-President proclaims con scription law. calling on 10,0oo.oO0 men aged twenty-one to thirty-one years to register June 6 Italians announc' 6,+32 prisoners.
 May 25.-Italy launches renewe' Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoner first day. German airplanes kill q persons in Dover and Folllestone. May 26.-Germany announces sh will sink hospital ships wlthou ] worning unless they obey certain strtc r,,Ia.. ut the courses they take. AT n',,'.', a,u' "1In. ~. -ad 22 414 Aus trians since May Ii.
 June 3.-General Chang Hsun named dictator by royalists of China.
 June 5.-united States registers fol the army draft without disorder General Brusiloff made head of Rus sian armies.
 June 7.-Brltlsh blow up Messines ridge; explosion heard In London 5.oo0 prisoners taken on first day oi offensive.
 June S.-Gencral Pershing, com mander of American expedition. ar rives in England Secretary of Wal Baker plans for 100000 American air planes. One hundred American avia tors arrive In France.
 June 9.-Wilson tells Russia wha United States Is fighting for. Japar Ing China to maintain order.
 June 1l.-Lord Northclifre. famous publisher. arrives to coordinate Brit ish missions In United States.
 June Fixing Constantine o Greece abdicates in favor of his sec ond son, Alexander, at command of tn. allies.
 June 13.-In greatest air raid so fa, on London. 1aS are killed and 43O in jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Eliht Root and American mission in Pc trograd.
 June l5.-I.iberty loan oversub scribed. Great Britain frees all tn, Irish rebels.
 June 17.-Doctor Ivers. who wrote Germany's official reply to the Bel gian atrocity charges. is sentenced tt nine months Imprisonment in Berlir for extorting s3O,0OO from the mothe, of soldier by threats; evidenc, shows he Is chronic drunkard ant morphine fend. Duma demands imme dlate offensive by Russian troops.
 June 19.-United States Admira Sims put In command of allied flee of Ireland.
 June 22.-Announced Liberty loai subscriptions total S3,035, ,226, $50.
 June 25.-American Red Cross cam paign closes, with subscriptions ovel the hundred million dollars sought.
 June 26-Official Mesopotamian re port scores British civil and pilitar, leaders Canadians within one mile of Lens, great French coal center.
 June 2T.-Arrival of first United States army In France announced.
 June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by an nulling her decree of neutrality be tween the entente nations and Ger many.
 June 29.-Greece breaks diplomati, relations with the central powers.
 June 30-Russians begin big ofYen sive in Gallcia. War Minister Ke rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile on four-mile front before Lens.
 July 1.-Washlngton announce, United States is ready to equip army of 100000,
 July 2.-Russian prisoners counted In her offensive number 10,273. Chin csc empire re-established.
 July 3.-Government tells of tive submarine attacks on transports bear, ing Pershing's men; one U.boat sunk Russia announces 5000 more prison CTS Germans make vain five-miie of. fensive at Verdun.
 July 4.-Eleven killed In German air raid on Harwich