The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-08-02

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bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-AlIfes evacuate Gal
| lipoli.
February IA, 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 18.-Russians take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 28.-British besieged in Kut-eI-
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 2O-Arabs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
lished.
June 27-British and French I'm
great drive in west.
July 0.-Submarine merchantmen
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 1O.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 28.-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 q. - President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
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.-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 28-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
resolution prOclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austria-Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 0.-British storm Vimy Ridge.
= April 1O.-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 28.-Both houses of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists name
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June 5.-Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London.
June 8.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1913 killed, 43O injured in
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scriptiOn.
June 27-Announce arrival Of first
American army in France.
June 28.-Brazil joins in war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big often
sfve in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
sist.
July TWENTY-FIVE German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
Iniure 1917, in London.
July 8.-Wilson orders export en-
largo.