Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-31
September.

Germany agrees to sink no more
liners without warning.
S-Czar takes over command of Rus
sian armies from Grand Duke Nicholas
1O-wilson demands recall of Dr..
Dumba. Austrian ambassador.
19-Germans occupy Wilma.
25-AIlies begin huge drive on west
front; take 10000 prisoners.
October.
4-Loan of $500, OOO,O 600 to Great Bri-
tain and France completed
6-French and British troops land
at Saloniki; Greek king dismisses Pre-
mier Venizelos: form coalition cabinet.
7-Austro-Germans invade Serbia;
capture Belgrade.
1O-Bulgarians invade Serbia; Ger
mans push south.
14-Bulgaria officially declares war
on Serbia
15-Great Britain declares war on
Bulgaria.
16-Serb- Anglo French forces attack
Strumitza Bulgaria; France declares
war on Bulgaria.
19-Russia and Italy declare war on
Bulgaria.
28-Aristide BRAND becomes premier
of new French cabinet
November.
6--Bulgarians capture Nish, impor-
tant railroad center of Serbia.
December.
British driven back from Bagdad
by Turks.
Ford peace ship sails; Greece
grants allies right to use Macedonia
for war purposes.
9-Teutons clear Serbia of all enc
mics.
1s-Allies withdraw 100000 troops
hi nF niY1-
sula.
30-British passenger steamer Per-
STA sunk without warning in Mediter-
ranean; Consul r. NJ. McNelly drowned
with 200 others.
January.
6-Great Britain adopts conscrip-
ton.
9-Allies evacuate Galipoli.
February.
German prize crew brings British
steamer Appam into Norfolk, Va.
14-Russians capture Erzerum, Asia
Minor.
93-Germans attack fortress of YER
dun.
March.
4-F'rench report auxiliary cruiser
Provence sunk in Mediterranean with
loss of 5000.
S-Germany declares war on Portu-
gal.
16-Admiral Won Tirpitz, German ma
val head, retires.
20-Sixty-fiVe allied airmen raid Zee
brugge.
24-British steamer Sussex torpedoed;
Americans aboard.
april.
Zeppelin raid on England kills %,
injuries A.
Second raid kills 16, Injuries 100.
New British budget $4,000, 200, 900,
largest in worlds history.
1S-Wilson sends ultimatum to Ger
many on Sussex sinking; summons con-
gress; Russians capture Trebizond, Asia
Minor.
19-Russian army lands in Frances;
French make gains at Verdun.
24-Irish revolt in Dublin; IL killed.
fisherman battle cruisers raid
Lowesoft and Yarmouth, England.
2S-British garrison at Kut-el-Amara
surrenders to Turks after 14S days
siege.
Irish revolt ended, leaders exc
cuted, Augustine Birrell, chief secre-
tary for ireland, resigns as result.
5-Germany promises to stop U-boat
warfare If Great Britain raises block
ade
10-Berlin admits sinking Sussex.
27-Greek cabinet resigns.
31-British and German fleets battle
Germans twelve.
June.
Earl Kitchener and staff drowned
when British cruiser Hampshire is sunk
on way to Russia.
15-Russians capture Czernowitz, cap
ital of Bukowina.
21-AIly economic conference agree
on boycott of Germany after war.
July.
ALLIES begin grand offensive on
Somme; Italians and Russians also adj
vance.
-1O-German merchant submarine
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
August.
3-Roger Easement hanged for trea-
son.
S-Italians capture Gorilla.
9-Germans execute Captain Fryatt,
of British liner Brussels, for alleged at
tack on submarine.
27-Rumania declares war on Austria;
Germany on Rumania.
September.
1O-BuIgar-German troops capture
Silistria east Rumania.
October.
1-Germans take 5000 prisoners in
fight with Rumanians in Pennsylvania;
driven back in Dobrudja.
7-U-53, German submarine, reaches
Newport r. l., from Wilhelmshaven.
S-U-53 sinks five British and neutral
ships off Nantucket.
16-Allies recognize former Premier
Venizelos' provisional government; allies
occupy Athens.