The midland journal., 1917-08-10

8. Guatemala breaks of relations with
Germany.
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,OO0,OO0,000. Sec
retary of State Lansing warns U-boat
sinkings are serious.
May 2.-Russians abandon Mush,
Armenia, to the Turks.
May 3.-News received of mistreat
ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks.
May 4.-French take Craonne from
Germans.
May 6.-French in second battle of
the Aisne take 6,100 prisoners.
May 7.-Orders given to raise 11,000
engineers here for work in France.
May 10.-Critical situation in Rus
sia and civil war is feared.
May 14-Great Britain turns over
to Un:ted States 1,O24,5OO tons of ship
ping building for her here.
May 15.-New Italian offensive be-
gins.
May 16-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
6,452 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill rs
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
trians 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 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 liking Constantine of
1 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, 153 are killed and 43O 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
diate offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admiral
Sims put in command of allied fleet
off Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty loan
subscriptions total $3,035, ,226,S50.
June 25.-Ameriean Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions over
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26.-Official Mesopotamian 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
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
ese 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 five-mile Of
| feuSiye at Verdun