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

grade.
October 10.-Bulgaria attacks Ser
bia.
December 9.-Germnny 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 1S.-Russlans take Trebizond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt in Dublin.
April 2S.-British besicged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battle of Jutland; ID 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
fenslve.
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.-Russans retake Brody,
northern Galicin.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 10.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galica.
August 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side OF the entente, and invades Tran
sylvania.
September G.-Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumania.
November l0.-First. great air bat
tie of worlds history; CT British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Bu-
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace TO her enemies.
December 81. - 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 Amcri
can vessels.
February 2G.-British capture Kut
el-Amara.
February 2S.-Zimmermann note
suggesting alliance. Of Mexico ant
japan with Germany against United
States made public.
March 11.-Brltish capture Bagdad
March 11.-Russian revolution starts
March 15.-Czar abdicates.
March 17.-Germans begin BIZ
strategic retirement" on west front.
, April 3.-Wllson asks congress tt
declare q state Of war with Germany
April 6.-Presdent signs congress
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-Austrla- Hungary break
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 0.-British storm vimy Ridse
April 10.-Brazil breaks diplomati
relations with Germany.
April 16.-French in great offensiv
: near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon
> golla sinks q submarine, this bein
the first American victory OF the wal
April 2S.-Both houses Of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
: May 15.-Big Italian offensive II
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists nam
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assis
: plot.
June 5.-Americans register TO
e.. army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messine
-, ridge; explosion heard in London.
June S.-General Pershing reache
/ England.
June Fixing Constantine @
:. Greece abdicates; nation prepares t
join allies.
., June 1913 killed, 430 injured 4
y London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Libert
Loan closes, with billion oversut
scrlption.
, June 27.-Announce arrival of frs
American army in France
=, June 2S.-Brazil joins in war.
r June 30.-Russians begin big Offer
sive in Galicia led by War Ministe
= Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re
}. established; republicans prepare to r,
n sist.
July 7.-Twenty-two German all
1, planes of immense new type kill A
injure 1877, in London.
y July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge.
l. July 12.-Chinese empire falls
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation
a Peking.
July 13.-In biggest air battle so fo
" British claim downing of 80 Germa
n planes on west front.