Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-08-02

OctosseS U."oefmonS OccupY nee'
grade.
October lO.-Bulgaria attacks Ses.
bis.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia Is entirely conquered.
December l9.-Allies eyacuate Gal.
lipoii.
February IA. l9l6.-Russians capture
Erzerum. Turkey.
February G.-Germans open verdun
offensive.
April l8.-Russians take Trebixond. |
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt In Dublin.
April 2S.--British besieged ia Kut-el-
Amara. Mesopotamia. surrender.
May 30.-Battle Of Jutland: ii Brit
ish and IL German warships sunk.
June 5.-LOrd Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire Is torpedoed
north Of Scotland.
June 17.-Russians retake Czerno-
WITT. capital Of Bukowinu, In great Of
fens1ve.
June 20.-Arabs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
Iished.
June 27.--British and French In
great drive in west.
July 9.-Suhmarine merchantmen
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 21.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August 9.--Italians take Gorilla.
July 10.-RusSinns take Stanislau.
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side Of the entente, and invades Tran.
~sylyanin.
September G.-Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumunia.
November 10.--First great air bat.
tie of worlds history; 67 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Blu
charest.
December 11.-Gcrmany openly prof
fers pence to her enemies.
December u. President Wilson
asks both sides TO define their wal
aims.
January u. 1917.--News received
German cruiser Moewe has taken q
ships in South Atlantic.
January 22--Wilson asking peace
without victory" demands United
States enter world league at close OF
war.
January 3l.-Germany declares ruth
less submarine warfare on all ships
whatever nationality. in the war zones
February 3,--unttcd States sever'
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February o6.--President asks con
gress for authority to arm oil Amcri
can vessels.
February 26.-Brltish capture kut
cl-Amara.
February 2S,--Zimmermann not
suggesting alliance Of Mexico ant
Japan with Germany against Unite'
States made public.
March 11.--BritIsh capture Bagdad
March l~l.--Russian revolution starts
March 15.-Czar nbdicates.
$ March 17.--Germans begin bl
"struteglc retirement" on west front.
April 3.--Wilson asks congress t
declare n state of var with Germany
o April ~6.--President signs congres
a resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Gel
II many.
April 9.-Austria- Hungary break
n diplomatic relations with Unite
States.
Il April 9.-British storm Vimy Rldg'
April 10.--BraziI breaks diplomat
relations with Germany.
April 1~6.--French in great offensiv
+ near Aisne river.
April l9.--American freighter MOI
L. golia sinks a submarine, this bein
the first American victory Of the wa
u April 2s.--Both houses Of congres
pass selcctive draft army bill.
," Nav 15.--Big Italian offensive
Carso begins.
June 3.--Chinese royalists nan
' Chang Hsun dictator; Germans asst!
plot.
: June 5.--Americnns register II
:. army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messint
=. ridge: explosion heard in London.
;" June S.-General Pershing reach'
j, England.
" June Fixing Constantine
y" Greece ~nbdicates; nation prepares
join allies.
June 13.-153 killed. 430 injured
-. London by German airplane raid.
June 15.--United States Libert
!, Loan closes, with billion oversu
scription.
June 27.-Announce arrival OF FIR
American army In France.
June 2S.-Brazil Joins In war.
June 3O.-Russians begin big offe
siye In Galicin led by War Minist
V. Kerensky In person.
July 2.-Chinesc empire declared T
IL. established republicans prepare to :
an sist. .
July 7.-Twenty.two German al
81. planes Of immense new type kill
lnjure 1877. In London.
BY July 8.-Wilson orders export el
barge.
la. July 12.--Chincse empire fall
Chang Hsun fees to Dutch legation
IN Picking.
July 1S.-In biggest air blttle 40 I
nv British claim downing Of 10 GERM
m planes on west front.