Middletown transcript., 1917-08-04

Pinsk-high tide in invasion Of Russia
September 24-25.-Allies In drive II
France capture $4,000.
October 5.-Allies land at Saloniki
October 9.-Germans occupy Bel
grade.
/ October 1O.-Bulgaria attacks Ser.
bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal.
| lipoli.
February IA, 916.-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 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
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June 2O.-Arabs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
lished.
June 27.-British and French in
great drive in west.
July 9.-Submarine merchantmen
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 1O-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 21. 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.-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 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
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9-Austria- Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-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 7.-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 30.-Russians begin big often
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
republicans pr >pare to re-
list.
July TWENTY-FIVE German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
njure 1877, in London.
July 8.-Wilson orders export en-
largo.
July 12.-Chinese empire falls;
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