Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-08-03
s. Guatemala breaks Off relations with

s. Guatemala breaks Off relations Will
Germany.
April 29.-Petain chosen to leat
French armies In place OF Nlvelle
Joflre asks United States army II
France without delay
May 2,-Announce first Liberty Loar
bond issue will be $1,000, 100000. Sec
rotary OF State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May Russians abandon Mush
Armenia, to the Turks.
May 3.-News received Of mlstreat.
ment Of Jews In Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 8-French In second battle OF
the Aisne take 6,l00 prisoners.
May 7.--Orders given to raise 11,00O
engineers here for work In France.
May l0.-Crltical situation In Rus.
sia and civil war is feared
May l4,-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1924, 800 tons of Ship
ping building for her here.
May l5,-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May l6.--Announced squadron Of
American destroyers Is assisting the
British; U-boat losses sink to 20 In
week.
May lS,-Presldent proclalms con-
scriptlon law, calling on 100000 men,
aged twenty-one to thIrty-one years,
TO register June 5. Italians announce
6,432 prisoners.
May 25,-ltaly launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day, German airplanes kill 10
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 22,4l4 Aus
trlans since May II.
June 3.-General Chang Hsun named
dictator by royallsts of China.
June Omitted States registers for
the army draft without disorder.
General Brusiloif made head of Rus
sian armies.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London;
1000 prisoners taken on first day OF
offensive.
June S.-General Pershing, com
mnnder Of American expedition, ar
rives in England. Secretary of War
Baker plans for 100000 American air
planes. one hundred American avla-
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 1l.-Lord Northcllffe, famous
publisher arrives TO coordinate Brit
ish missions in United States.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates in favor of his Sec
ond son, Alexander, at command of the
allies.
June 13.-In greatest air raid so far
on London, 1873 are killed and 430 in
jured, Pershlng reaches Paris. Elihu
Root and American mission In Pc
trograd
June 15.-I.lberty loan oversub-
scribed. Great Britain frees all the
Irish rebels.
June 17.-Doctor Ivers, who wrote
Germany's official reply to the Bel
gian atroeity charges, Is sentenced to
nine months Imprisonment In Berlin
for extorting $4,000 from the mother
of soldier by threats; evidence
shows he Is chronic drunkard and
morphine fend Duma demands imme-
date offensive by Russian troops.
June l9,-United States Admiral
Sims put in command of allied fleet
of Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty loan
subscriptions total S3,035, 226,S50.
June 25.-Amerlcan Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26.-Ofliclal Mesopotamlan re-
port scores British civil and military
leaders. Canadians within one mile
of Lens, great French coal center.
June 27.-Arriyal Of first United
States army In France announced.
June 2S.-Brazll Joins In war by an
nuling her decree Of neutrality be-
tween the entente nations and Ger
many.
June 29.-Greece breaks diplomatic
relations with the central powers.
June 90.-Russlans begin big often
sive In Gallcla. War Minister Ke-
rensky leads attack. Haig gains mile
on four-mlle front before Lens.
July 1.-Washln. ton announces
United States is ready to equip army
of 100000.
July Russian prisoners counted
in her offensive number 1928. Chin
csc empire re-establlshed.
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 five-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 TWENTY-FIVE German Gotha
airplanes, mounting four guns each.
raid London, killing 43 and injurlng
1877.
July S.-Wllson 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 |