The Benson signal., 1917-08-04

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October 5.-Allies land at Saloniki.
October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1O-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 9-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February IA, 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 18.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia surrender.
May 3O.-Battle of Jutland IA Brit
ish and 1S 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 2O.-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 9.-Italians take Gorilla.
July 1O.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September 6.-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 Bu-
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof.
fers peace to her enemies.
December 21. = President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January II, 1917.-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 all ships,
whatever nationality, in the war zones.
February 3.-United States sewers
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
StatesI 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. Z
April 19.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks a submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists name
Chang Esun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June s. 5.-Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London.
June 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1913 killed, 43O injured in
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty.
Loan ci,Ses, with billion Oversub-
scription.
June 27.-Announce arrival of first
American army in France.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war.
June 30-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-