Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04
8. Guatemala breaks off relations with

i9. Guatemala breaks off relations will
| Germany.
: April 29.-Petain chosen to lea(
French armies in place of Nivelle
Joffre asks United States army il
, France without delay.
May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loa1
, bond issue will be $4,000, 100000. Sec
rotary of State Lansing warns U-boa
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush
Armenia, to the Turks.
May 3.-News received of mistreat
ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
: Germans.
May 6.-French in second battle Of
! the Aisne take 6,10O prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise 11,O0(
engineers here for work in France.
May 1O.-Critical situation in Rus
STA and civil war is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns ovel
to United States 1924, 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 26 in
week.
May 18.-President proclaims con-
scription law, calling on 1O,00O,OO0 men
aged twenty-one to thirty-one years
to register June 5. Italians announce
6,432 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill &c
persons in Dover and Folkestone.
May 26.-Germany announces she
will sink hospital ships without
warning unless they obey certain strict
rules about the courses they take. An
nounced Italy has captured @, 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.
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sian armies.
June 7.-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 100000 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
ish missions in United States.
June Fixing Constantine Of
Greece abdicates in favor of his sec
Ond son, Alexander, at command of the
allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid so far
on London, 153 are killed and 400 in
jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu
Root and American mission in Pc
trograd.
June 15.-Liberty loan oversub-
scribed. Great Britain frees all the
Irish rebels.
June 17.-Doctor Ivers, who wrote
Germany's official reply to the Bel
gian atrocity charges, is sentenced to
nine months Imprisonment in Berlin
for extorting $4,000 from the mother
Of a soldier by threats; evidence
shows he is a chronic drunkard and
morphine fiend. Duma demands imme-
date offensive by Russian troops.
June 19-United States Admiral
Sims put in command of allied fleet
| off Ireland.
June %. Announced Liberty loan
subscriptions total $3,035, 226, $50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26-Oficial Mesopotamian re-
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival of first United
States army in France announced.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by an
nulling her decree of neutrality be-,
tween the entente nations and Ger
| many.
June 29.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers
June 30.-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia. War Minister Ke-
rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile
on fOur-mile front before Lens.
July 1.-Washington announces
United States is ready to equip army
of 100000.
July 2.-Russian prisoners counted
in her offensive number 1928. Chin
csc empire re-established.
July 3.-Government tells of two
submarine attacks on transports bear
ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sunk.
Russia announces 5000 more prison
ers. Germans make vain five-mile Of
fensive at Verdun.
July 4.-Eleven killed in German
air raid on Harwich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch
lists battle 35 miles from Picking.
July 6.-Leaders of German spy sys-
tenn in United States arrested.
July TWENTY-FIVE German Gotha
airplanes, mounting four guns each,
raid London, killing 43 and injuring
1877.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge on food, fuel and many other