Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07

April 29.-Petain 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 $2,000,O0O,000. Sec
rotary of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush,
Armenia, to the Turks.
May 3.-News received of mistreaG-
ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French in second battle of
the Aisne take 600 prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise II 1000
engineers here for work in France.
May 10.-Critical situation IN Rus
STA and civil war is feared.
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1,024,5O tons of ship
ping building for her here
May 15.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May 1S.-Announced squadron of
American destroyers is assisting the
British; U-boat losses sink to 26 in
week.
May 18.-President proclaims con-
scription law, calling on 100000 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
TRANS 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 british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London !;
5000 prisoners taken on first day of
offensive.
June 8.-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
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 liking Constantine of
ond son, Alexander, at command of the
allies. AZ
June 13.--In greatest air raid so far
on London, 1853 are killed and 430 in
| jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Elihu
Root and American mission in Pc
| 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
gian atrocity charges, is sentenced to
nine months Imprisonment in Berlin
for extorting $4,000 from the mother
of a soldier by threats; evidence
shows he Is a chronic drunkard and
morphine fiend. Duma demands imme-
| date offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admiral
Sims put in command of allied fleet
off Ireland.
June 22.-Announces Liberty loan
subscriptions total $3,G55, 226, $50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26.-Offcial Mesopotamian re-
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
Of Lens, great French coal center.
June a.-Arrival of first United
States army in France announced.
June 28.--Brazil joins in war by an
nulling her decree of neutrality be-
tween the entente nations and Ger
many.
June 29.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers.
June 30.-Russians begin big often
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 1929. Chin
csc empire re-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
ers. Germans make vain fve-mile of
fensive at Verdun.
July 4.-Eleven killed in German
air raid on Harwich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch
lists battle 35 miles from Picking.
July 6.-Leaders of German spy sys-
TEN in United States arrested.
July 7.-Twenty-two German Gotha
airplanes, mounting four guns each,
raid London, killing 43 and injuring
1877.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge 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 100000 to 100000 tons in
IL months, instead of the 100000 to
3,OO0,OOO originally aimed at.
July 9.-British dreadnaught Van.
guard blown up; all but two aboard
killed.
July 10.-Germans in sudden drive
along seacoast beat British back to
User river and capture 1850 men
Crisis over electoral reforms and war
aims in Germany. Russians take
| HaIicz Galioio