Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-08-09

grade.
October 10.-BulgarIa attacks Ser.
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia Is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allles evacuate Cal
| llpoli.
February ID, 1916.-RussIans capture
Brzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verduu
offensive.
April 18.-Russians take Treblzond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30-Battle of Jutland; ii 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-
wltz 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 0.-Submarine merchantmaD
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicla.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 1O.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 29.-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 Blu.
charest.
| December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
| December p. 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 AmeriA
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.-Russlan revolution starts.
March 15.-Czar abdicates.
March 17.-Germans begin big
strategic retirement" on west front.
April 3.-Wilson asks congress TO
declare n state of war with Germany.
April 6.-Presldent 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 frelghter Mon
golia sinks submarine, this being
the first American victory Of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
pass selectlve 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 for
army draft without disorder.
June 7.-Britsh blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard In London.
June S.-General Pershlng reaches
England.
June liking Constantine Of
Greece abdlcates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1878 killed, 400 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
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
siSt.
July Twenty-Five German air.
planes of immense new type kill As,
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