Macon beacon., 1917-08-03


April 2Q.-Petain chosen to lead
French armies in place " Niyelle
Jonre asks United States army in
Franco without delay.
May Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue will be $2,000OO0.OOO. Sec
retary Of State Lansing warns U-boat
SlnStnsS are serious.
May 2.-RusSianS abandon MuSh,
Armenia, 10 the Turks,
May 3.-NewS received Of mistrcat-
ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French In second battle of
the ASne take 6,l00 prisoners.
May 7.-orders given to raise 1900
engineers here for work In France.
May l0.-Critical situation In Rus
sia and civil war is feared.
May l4,-Great Britain turns over
to United States l,024,500 tons Of ship
ping building for her here.
May 15.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May l6,-Announced squadron of
American deStroyers is assisting the
British; U-boat losses sink to 26 in
week.
May lS,-President proclalms con-
Scription law, calling ON 100000 men,
aged tWenty-one to thirty-one years,
TO register June ). Italians announce
6,4S2 prisoners.
May 21.-Italy launches renewed
CorSo offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day German airplanes kill 76
persons in Dover and Folkcstone.
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 22,4l4 Aus
trians since May ii.
June 3.-General Chang Hsun named
dictator by royaliSts Of China.
June 5.-Unlted States registers for
the army draft without disorder.
General Brusiloff made head of Rus
sian armies.
June british blow up Messlnes
ridge; explosion heard in London ;
5000 prisoners taken on first day of
offensive.
June S-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 Fixing Constantine OF
Greece abdlcates In favor OF his sec,
ond son, Alexander, at command Of the
allies.
| June 13,-In greatest air Ihid so faI
on London, 1913 are killed and 430 In
jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Ellhu
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 tC
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 fend. Duma demands imme
diate offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-Unlted States Admiral
Sims put in command of allied fleet
off Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty loar
subscriptions total $3,035, ,226,S50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 2G.-Oficial MesopOtnmlan re
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
Of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arrival Of first United
States army in France announced.
June 2S.-Brazil joins In war by an
nulllng her decree Of neutrality be
tween the entente nations and Ger
many.
June 29.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers,
June 3O.-Russians begin big often
slve in Galicia. War Minister Ke
rensky leads attack Haig gains mile
on four-mile front before Lens,
July 1.--Washlngton announce.
United States IS ready to equip army
of 100000.
July 2.-Russlan prisoners counted
in her offensive number 1928. Chin
ese empire re-established.
July 3.-Goyernment tells Of two
submarine attacks on transports bear
ing Pershlng's men; one U-boot sunk
Russia announces G,OoO more prison
ers. Germans make vain fiyc-milc Of
fensive at Verdun,
July 4.-EIeyen killed in German
| air raid on IlarWich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch
lists battle 80 miles from Picking.