The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-08-11

oCRtcnUcE ST<Os-hlilco Al akANO IA
France capture $4,000.
October 5.-Allies land at Saloniki.
October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
October 10.-Bulgarla attacks Ser
bia.
December Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies 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-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battle of Jutland; Ia Brit
ish and 10 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 Gnlicla.
August Galatians 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 10.-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British.
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Blu
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace To her enemies.
December 81. = President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January IT. 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.-United States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 26.-Presldent asks con-
gress for authority to arm all Amerl-
can vessels.
February 26-Britsh 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 Indicates.
March 17.-Germans begin big
strategic retirement" on west front.
April 3.-Wilson asks congress to
declare state Of war with Germany.
April 6-PresIdent signs congress
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austria-H Hungary breaks
it'll xx-tth INIT
States.
April 9.-British storm vimy Ridge.
April 10.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-French in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 10.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks submarine. this being
the first American victory Of the war.
April 2S.--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 S.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 1913 killed, 430 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 2S.-Brazil joins In war.
June 30.-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
\ Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
slst.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
injure 1877, In London.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge.
July 12.-Chinese empire falls:
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation In
Picking.