The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-03

FRANCE capture 5000,
october 5.-Allies land at Saloniki.
October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 10.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February IA, 191e.-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 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 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September 6.-Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 1O.-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 67 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Blu
charest. ,
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December Fl. 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 2S.-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 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.-American freighter Mon.
golia sinks a 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 fol-
army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messines
ridge: explosion heard in London.
June 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June 12.-King Constantine OF
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1913 killed. 430 injured in
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub'
scription.
June 27.-Announce arrival OF first
American army in France.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war.
June 3O-Russians begin big often
siye in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re
sist.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air.
planes Of immense new type kill 43
injure 1877, in London.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge.
July 12-Chinese empire falls
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation in
Picking.
July 13.-In biggest air battle so far
British claim downing Of 80 German
planes on west front.
July 14.-Von Bethmann-Hollweg
German imperial chancellor. resigns
and the kaiser appoints DR.. Geore
Michaelis in his place.