Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-08-02

French armies In place Of Nivelie.
Joffre asks United States army In
France without delay.
May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $2!OOO.OOO.O00. Sec
rotary Of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush.
| Armenia, to the Turks.
May S.-News received Of mistreat-
ment Of Jews Ia Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French In second battle Of
the Aisne take 6.lU prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise 1000
engineers here for work In France.
May l0.-Critical situation In Rus
sia and civil wax Is feared.
May l4.-Great Britain turns I'VE
to United States 1.O24.5OO tons Of ship
ping building for her here.
May 15.--New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May 16.-Announced squadron OF
American d%estroyers Is assisting the
British; U-bOat losses sink to 26 in
week.
May 1S.-President prpclaims con-
scriptiOn law, calling on 100000 men.
aged twenty-one to t%hirty-one years,
to register June s. Italians announce
6,432 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill IS
persons in Dover and Folkestone.
May 26.--Germany %nounc she
will sink hospital\ ships without
warning unless they obey certain strict
rules about the courses they take. An
%nounced Italy has captured 22,4l4 Aus
TRANS since May IA.
June 3.--Gcneral Chang Hsun named
dictator by rosalists of China.
June 5.-United States registers for
the army draft without disorder
General Brusiloff made head Of Rus
sian armies.
June 7.--British blow up MessineS
ridge; explosion heard in London
5000 prisoners taken Gu first day OF
offensive.
June S.-General Pershing, com
mander Of American expedition, ar
! rives in England. Secretary of Wal
Baker plans for 100000 American air
planes. One hundred American avia
{ tors arrive in France.
June 9.--Wilson tells Russia wha'
United States Is fighting for. japan
offended by United States note urg
ing China to maintain order.
t June 11.--Lord Northcliife. famou:
9 publisher, arrives to coordinate Brit
ish missions in United States.
June liking Constantine o
Greece abdicates in favor Of his sec
g onI son, Alexander, at command Of tn
I allies.
June 13.--In greatest air raid SO fa
: on London, 1913 are killed and 43O In
l. jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Eth
J. Root and American mission in Pc
trograd.
June 15.-Liberty loan oversul
scribed, Great Britain frees all tn
r Irish rebels.
k June 17.-Doctor Ivers, who wrot
Germany's official reply to the Be
II gian atrocity charges, is sentenced I
D. nine months Imprisonment in Berll
for extorting $4,000 from the motht
Of a soldier by threats; evidene
q shows he is n chronic drunkard an
morphine fiend. Duma demands lmm'
date offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-Unlted States Admire
d Sims put in command of allied flee
off Ireland.
June 22--Announced Liberty lon
L. subscriptions total S3,O35, 226,S50.
June 25.-American Red Cross can
Il. paign closes. with subscriptions ovt
the hundred million dollars sought.
IS June 26.--Oficial Mesopotaminn r
r, port scores British civil and militai
leaders. Canadians within one mi
r. of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival Of first Unite
Is States army in France announced.
ID June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by n
nulling her decree Of neutrality b
tween the entente nations and Gle
Sc many.
n. June D.--Greece breaks diplomat
relations with the central powers.
nv June M.-Russlans begin big offe
n. siye In Gallcia, War Minister X
II. rensky leads attack. Haig gains mi
ID. on four-mile front before Lens.
&C. July 1.-Washington annOunc
Of United States is ready to equip arm
Of 100000.
n. July Russian prisoners count
ne In her offensive number 1929. Chi
csc empire re.establlshed.
Il. July 3.-GOvernment tells Of I,
submarine attacks on transports bef
to Ing Pershing's men one U.bOat sur
Russia announces 5000 more prise
II. ers, Germans make vain fve-mile
nd fensive dt verdun.
RS July 4.-Eleven killed In Germ
air raid on Harwich.
m July 6.--Republicans and monar'
It's lists battle IS miles from Picking.
,al July 8.-Leaders Of German spy g.
tenn In United States arrested.
pw July 7.-Twenty.two German Got
alrplanes. mounting four guns en-
ro- raid London, killing 43 and injuri
ht- 1917.
rst July 8.-Wilson orders export G
barge on food. fuel and many oil
tie things to prevent supplies reachi
tit. Germany. British foreign office sta
nd German crops this summer will not
above 40 per cent Of normal. Unit