The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-08-02

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grade.
October 1~O.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 9.-Germang announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February II, 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 29.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 3O.-Battle Of Jutland; IA Brit
ish and IS German wurships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed
north of Scotland.
June 17.-Russinns retake Czerno-
WITT. capital Of Bukowinn, 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 Gorizia.
July 10.-Russians take Stanislau.
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumania enters wal on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
%sylvanin.
September Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November 1O.-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Blu
chnrest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December 81. - President Wilson
asks both sides to define their wal
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 28.-President asks con-
gress for authority to arm all Ameri-
chr vessels.
February 28.-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.-Itussian 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-H Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-British storm vimy Ridge.
April 1O.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-Trench in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon.
golia sinks Il 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 Hsun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June 5.-Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
June 7.-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 13.-153 killed, 43O 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 28.-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-
sist.
July TWENTY-FIVE German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
injure 1877, in London.