The Monticellonian., 1917-08-02
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| Apr1l 29.-Petain chosen to lead French armies in place of NIvelle. Joffre asks United States army in 1 France without delay. May 2.-Annopnce first Liberty Loan bond issue will be 5000, 100000. Sec 1 retary of State Lansing warns U-boat sinkings are serious. l May 2.-Russians abandon Mush. Armenia, to the Turks. l 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 6100 prisoners.
 May 7.-Orders given to raise 11.000 engineers here for work in France.
 May 10.-Gritical situation in Rus sia and civil war is feared.
 May 14.-Great Britain turns over to United States 1,024. 300 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 1S.-President proclaims con- scription law, calling on 10,000,00o 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 76 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 22, 414 Aus trians 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. General Brusiloff made head of Rus 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 afnnHad hu ITnffnd 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 allies.
 June 13.--In greatest air raid so far on London. 153 are killed and 430 in- jured Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu Root and American mission in Pe- 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 glan atrocity charges, is sentenced to nine months Imprisonment in Berlin for extorting S3o,O00 from the mother of soldier by threats; evidence shows he is a chronic drunkard and morphine fiend. Duma demands imme- diate offensive by Russian troops
 June 19.-United States Admiral Sims put in command of allied fleet off Ireland.
 June ..22.-Announced Liberty loan subscriptions total $3,035, ,226,S5
 June 25.-American Red Cross cam paign closes, with subscriptions over the hundred million dollars sought.
 June 26.-Official 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 <,tente nations and Ger many.
 June 29-Greece breaks diplomatic relations with the central powers.
 June 30-Russians begin big offen- 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 10,273 Chin ese empire e-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 CTS. Germans make vain five-mile Of- fensive at Verdun.
 July 4.-Eleven killed in German air raid on Harwich.
 July 5.-Republicans and monarch lsts battle B miles from Peking.
 July 6.-Leaders of German spy sys- tenn in United States arrested.
 July 7.-Twenty-two German Gotha airplanes. mounting four guns each. raid London, killing 43 and injuring 197.
 July S.-Wilson orders export em- | bargo on food, fuel and many other things to prevent supplies reaching Germany. British foreign office states German crops this summer will not be above 40 per cent of normal. United States shipping board states expects to build 5,000,000 to 6.000,0O0 tons in IS months. instead of the 2,500,0O0 to