The state herald., 1917-08-03
s. Guatemala breaks of relations with

8. Guatemala breaks of relations with
Germany.
April 29.-Petain chosen to lead
French armies In place Of Nivelle.
Joffre asks United States army In
France without delay.
May 2.-Announce drst Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $4,000. .00O,0O0. Sec
retary Of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush,
Armenia. to the Turks.
May 3.-News received of mlstreat-
ment Of Jews In Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French In second battle Of
the Aisne take 8,100 prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise II 900
engineers here for work In France.
May 10-Crltical situation In Rus
sia and civil war Is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1,O24 500 tons Of ship
ping building for her here.
May 15.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May 16.-Announced squadron Of
American destroyers is assisting the
British; U-boat losses sink to 20 in
week.
May 18.-President proclaims con-
scriptlon law, calling on 10000, 900 men,
aged twenty-one to thirty-One years,
to register June 8. Italians announce
G,432 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill &c
persons In Dover and Folkestone.
May 20.-Germany announces she
will sink hospital ships without
warming unless they obey certain strict
rules about the courses they take. An
nounced Italy has captured 22,414 Aus
TRANS since May IA.
June 3.-General Chang Hsun named
dictator by royalists Of China.
June 5.-United States registers for
the army draft without disorder.
General Brusiloff made head of Rus
sian armies.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard In London;
5000 prisoners taken on first day of
offensive.
June S.-General Pershing. COM
mander of American expedition, ar-
rives In England. Secretary Of War
Baker plans for 10000 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
lsh missions In United States.
June 12.-King Constantine of
ond son, Alexander, at command of the
allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid SO far
on London, 1853 are killed and 430 In
jured. Pershlng reaches Paris. Ellhu
Root and American mission in Pc
trograd.
June .S.-Liberty loan oversub-
scribed. Great Britain frees all the
Irish rebels.
June 17.-Doctor Ivers, who wrote
Germany's oficial reply to the Bel
gian atrocity charges, Is sentenced to
nine months imprisonment In Berlin
for extorting $4,000 from the mother
Of q soldier by threats; evidence
shows he is q chronic drunkard and
morphine fiend. Duma demands imme-
dlate offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admiral
Sims put In command Of allied neet
of ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty loan
subscriptions total $3.035. .228. $50.
| June 25.-American Red Cross cam
paign closes. with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 28.-Ofiicial Mesopotamian re-
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
Of Lens. great French coal center.
June 27.-Aryival Of frst United
States army In France announced.
June 2S.-Braxil Joins In war BY an
nulling her decree Of neutrality be-
tween the entente nations and Ger
many.
June 20.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers.
June 3O.-Russians begin big offcn-
sive In Galicia. War Minister Ke-
rensky lends attack. Haig gains mile
on four-mile front before Lens.
July 1.-washington announces
United Stntes is ready to equip army
of 100000.
July 2.-Russian prisoners counted
In her offensive number 10.273. Chin.
csc empire re-cstablished.
July 3.-Governmen tells Of two
submarine attacks on transports bear.
Al a.