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o. uudteindih DredkS on reidtlOnS Win
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 $1,000. 100000. 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,lOO prisoners.
May 7.--Orders given TO raise 1900
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 United States 1.024, 500 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 1S.-President proclaims con-
scription law, calling on 10000, 600 men,
aged twenty-one to thirty-ene years.
TO register June 8. Italians announce
6,i32 prisoners.
May 25.-Italy launches renewed
Corso offensive. taking 1900 prisoners
first day. German airplanes kill &c
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 Ia 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 Fixing 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 and 430 In
jured. PcrshiAg reaches Paris. Elihu
Root and American mission in Pc,
trograd.
June l5.-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 &c
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 imne
date offensive by Russian troops.
June 19.-United States Admira
Sims put in command of allied fee
off Ireland.
June 22.-Announced Liberty LOAF
subscriptions total s3,O35, ,226,S5O.
June 25.-American Red Cross cam
paign closes, with subscriptions ovel
the hundred million dollars sought.
June 26-Oficial Mesopot1mian re
port scores British civil and militar.
leaders. Canadians within one mill
of Lens, great French coal center.
June 2T.-Arrival Of first Unite'
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 diplomati
relations with the central powers.
June 30.-Russians begin big often
sive In GalIcia. War Minister Re
rensky leads attack. Haig gains mil
on four-mile front before Lens.
July 1.-Washington announce
I United States is ready to equip arm
Of 100000.
July 2-Russiap prisoners counte
. in her offensive number 1929. CHR
ese empire re-established.
July Achievement tells Of tw
submarine attacks on transports beal
, ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sunl
Russia announces 5000 more prison
: ers. Germans make vain ive-mile OF
! fensive at verdun.
5 July 4.-Eleven killed In Germa
air raid on Harwich.
July 5.-Republicans and monarch
5 lists battle 35 miles from Peking.
I July 6.-Leaders Of German spy syl
TEN in United States arrested.
v July 7.-Twenty-two German Goth
airplanes, mounting four guns eacl
; raid London. killing 43 and injurin
: 1877.
t July S.-Wilson orders export en-
barge on food, fuel and many otht
e things to prevent supplies reachin
: Germany. British foreign Office STATE