The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-08-04
8. Guatemala breaks OF relations with

April 29.-Petain chosen to lead
French armies in place Of Nivelle
Joffre asks United States army In
France without delay.
| May 2.-Annopnce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $2,O0O,000,OO0. Sec
Rotary of State Lansing warns Uboat
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 G,l0O prisoners.
May 1.-Orders given to raise IL 1000
engineers here for work in France.
May 1O.-Critical situation in Rus
STA and civil war is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1,024,5OO tons of ship
ping building for her here.
May 15.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May 1G.-Announced squadron of
American deStroyers is assisting the
British; U-boat losses sink to 20 in
| week
May 1S-President prOclaims con-
scription law, calling on 100000 men,
aged twenty-One to thirty-one years.
to register June 5. Italians announce
6,432 prisoners.
May 2o.-ltaly launches renewed
CorSo offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
hfSt 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 -, Ala Aus
trianS since May II.
June 3.-Gcneral Chang HSun named
dictator by royalists of China.
June 5.-United States registers for
the army draft without disorder.
General BrusilOlf made head of Rus
sian armies.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London;
1900 prisoners taken on first day of
offensive.
June S.-General Pershinc, 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 liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates in favor of his sec
Ond son, Alexander, at command of the |
allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid so far |
on London. 153 are killed and $50 in |
jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu |
Root and American mission in Pc |
trOgrad.
June 15.-Liberty loan oversub-
scribed. Great Britain frees all the
Irish rebels.
June 17.-DOctOr Ivers, who wrote
Germany's official reply to the Bel
gian atrOcity charges, is sentenced to
nine months Imprisonment in Berlin
for extorting $4,000 from the mother
of soldier by threats; evidence
shows he is a chronic drunkard and
morphine fiend. Duma demands imme-
date offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admiral
Sims put in command of allied fleet
off Ireland.
June .2.-AnnOunced Liberty loan
subscriptions total S3,O35, 226,S $50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26.-Official Mesopotamian re-
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival of first United
States army in France announced.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by an
nulIing her decree of neutrality be-
tween the <ltente nations and Ger
many.
June 29.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers.
June 30.-Russians begin big Often :
sive in Galicia. War Minister Ke-
rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile :
on .fOur-mile front before Lens.
July 1.-Washington announces !
United States is ready to equip army
Of 100000. |,
July Russian prisoners counted
in her offensive number 1929. Chin ,
csc empire re-established. :
July 3.-GOvernment tells of two
attacks on transports bear I
ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sunk.
Russia announces 5000 more prison. {
FRS. Germans make vain five-mile Of
fensive at Verdun. :
July 4.-Eleven killed in German 6
lir raid on Harwich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch r
SITS battle 80 miles from Picking.
July 6.-Leaders of German spy sys- r
EN- in United States arrested. r
July Twenty-Five German Gotba
iirplanes, mounting four guns each. {
aid London, killing AZ and iniuring
l97. {
July S.-Wilson orders export en-