Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-08-12

grade.
October 1O.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipolI.
February IA, 1918.-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 3O.-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.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
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 1O.-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.
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-Cnited 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 a state Of war with Germany.
April 6.-President signs congress
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April Cuba declares war on Ger.
many.
April 9.-Austria- Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9,-British storm Vimy Ridge
April 10.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
: relations with Germany.
i,-s
near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks a submarine, this beine
the first American victory Of the war
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
: May 15.-Big Italian offensive ir
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists nama
Chang ISun dictator: Germans assist
!. plot.
June 5.-Americans register fol
i, army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messine.
ridge; explosion heard In London.
June s.-General Pershing reache:
/ England.
June Fixing Constantine Of
:. Greece abdicates; nation prepares tt
join allies.
June 13.-153 killed. 430 injured II
: London by German airplane raid.
June United States Liberty
Loan ,s, with billion oversub
scriptiOn.
June 21.-Announce arrival OF mrs
American army in France.
June 2s.-Brazil joins in war.
r June 30.-Rnssians begin big offen
sive in Gahcia led by War Minister
= Kerensky N person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re
, established; republicans prepare to re
n sist.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air
4. planes of immense new type kill 4S
injure 1917, In London.
y July s.-wilson orders export EN-
barge.
4 July 12.-Chinese empire falls
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation II
n Peking.
July 13-In biggest air battle so IA
" British claim downing of 80 Germal
n planes on west front
July 14-von Bethmann-Hollwef
s. German imperial chancellor. resign
and the kaiser appoints DR.. Geor