Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-08-09

France without delay
May Announce first Liberty Loan
bond issue viii be $1,000. 900. 900. Sec
rotary 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 IL 1000
engineers here for work in France.
May 1O.-Criical situation in Rus
STA and civil war is feared
May 14.-Great Britain turns over
to United States 1,024.5OO 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 &c in
week.
May 1S.-PreSident proclaims con-
scription law, calling on 10000, 900 men,
aged twenty-one to thirty-one years,
to register June 5. Italians announce
6,432 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive, taking 5000 prisoners
| first day. German airplanes kill 76
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 %, Ala Aus
TRANS since Nav 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 1.-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 Northclifre. 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. 153 are killed AantlA43O in
jured. Pershing reaches Paris. EIihu
| 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 soldier by threats; evidence
| shows he is chronic drunkard and
morphine fiend. Duma demands imme-
date 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 S3.035, 226. $50.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
| p1lgn 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 Galicfa. 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 1000. 600
July 2.-Russian prisoners counted
in her offensive number 1928 Chin
csc 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
fensive at verdun-
July 4.-Eleven killed in German
| air raid on Harwich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch
lists battle 80 miles from Picking.
July 6.-Leaders of German spy sys.
tenn in United States arrested.