The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-09

8. Guatemala breaks Off relations with
Germany.
April 29.-Petaln chosen to lead
French armies in place of Nivelle.
Joffre asks United States army in
France without delay.
May 2.-Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $1,000, 100000. Sec
retary Of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush,
Armenia, to the Turks.
May 3.--News received of mistreat-
ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French. take Craonne from
Germans.
May G.-French in second battle Of
the Aisne take G,100 prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise 1000
engineers here for work in France.
May 10.-Critical situation In Rus
sa and civil war is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1924 800 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 proclalms con-
scription law, calling on 100000 men,
aged twenty-one to thi:ty-One years,
TO register June 8. 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 Folliestone.
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 royallsts of China.
June 5.-United States registers for
the army draft without disorder
General Brusiloff made head of Rus
sian armies.
June 7.-Brltish blow up Messlnes
ridge; explosion heard in London
5000 prisoners taken on first day OF
offensive.
June S-Gcneral Pershing, com
mandcr of American expedition, ar
|! rlves 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. Japar
offended by United States note urg
ing China TO maintain order.
{ June 11.-Lord Northcliffe, famous
, publisher, arrives to coordinate Brit
} ish missions in United States.
June Fixing Constantine o
: Greece abdicates in favor Of his sec
e ond son, Alexander, at command of th'
( allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid so IA
: on London, 153 are killed and 43O in
: jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elih'
: Root and American mission in Pc
trograd.
S June 15.-Liberty loan oversuh
!. scribed. Great Britain frees all tn
r Irish rebels.
< June l7.-Doctor Ivers, who wrot
Germany's official reply TO the Be
/ gian atrocity charges. is sentenced t
= nine months Imprisonment in Bcrli
]. for extorting $4,000 from the mothe
of soldier by threats; evidenc
g shows he is chronic drunkard an
morphine fiend. Duma demands immt
, diate offensive by Russian troops.
:. June 19.-Unlted States Admire
d Sims put in command Of allied flee
= Off Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty loa
+ subscriptions total $3,035, ,226,S50.
June 25.-American Red Cross can
l. paign closes, with subscriptions owe
the hundred million dollars sought.
IS June 2G.-Oficial Mesopotamian II
r. port scores British civil and mllitar
:. leaders. Canadians within one mil
r of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival of first Unite
IS States army in France announced.
d June 2S.-Brazil joins in war by III
g. nulling her decree Of neutrality b,
II tween the entente nations and Ge
'e many.
l. June 29-Greece breaks diplomat
relations with the central powers.
" June 30.-Russians begin big offel
D. slve in Galicia. War Minister Il
I. rensky leads attack. Haig gains mi
4. ON four-mile front before Lens.
O. July Washington announce
If United States is ready to equip arm
of 100000.
n- July 2.-Russian prisoners countt
le in, her offensive number 1928. Chi
csc empire re-established.
l. July 3.-Government tells Of tv
submarine attacks on transports bea
10 ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sun
Russia announces 5000 more priso
T. ers. Germans make vain fiye-mile Q
ID fensive at Verdun.
RS July 4.-Eleven killed In Germt
air raid on Harwich.
n July 5.-Republicans and monarc
Is lists battle 50 miles from Peking.
nj July 6.-Leaders Of German spy sy
TEN in United States arrested.
w July 7.-Twenty-two German Gotl
airplanes, mounting four guns eac
o. raid London, killing 43 and injuril
It. 1877.
st July S.-Wilson orders export ei
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