The Elbert County tribune., 1917-08-03


October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 1O.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December e.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February IA. 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum. Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April 1s.-Russians take Trebizond.
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt In Dublin.
April 2S.-British besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battle of Jutland; IA 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 merchantman
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russlans retake Brody,
northern Gallcia.
August 9.-Italians 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 10.-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Bu-
charest
December 11.--Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December 81. = 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
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 7.-Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austria-H Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-British storm vimy Ridge.
April 10.-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 2S.-Both houses of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive In
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists name
Chang Esun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June 5.-Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London.
June S.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 13,-153 killed, 430 injured In
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan Gases, with billion oversub-
scription.
June 27.-Announce arrival of first
American army in France.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war
June 30-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicla led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
Sisf