Cleveland County herald., 1918-11-21
ceeds Sir John French as chief of English armies on west front.


1916
 Jan. s-British troops at Kut-el- Amara surrounded.
 Jan. 9-British evacuate Gallipoli peninsula.
 Jan. 13-Austrians capture Cetinje, capital of Montenegro
 Jan. 23-Scutari, capital of Albania captured by Austrians.
 Feb 22-Crown princess army begins attack on Verdun.
 March 8-Germany declares war on Portugal.
 March 15-Austria-H Hungary declares war on Portugal.
 March 24-Steamer Sussex torpedoed and sunk.
 April 1S-President Wilson, sends note to Germany
 April 19-President Wilson speaks to congress, explaining diplomatic situa- ti0n.
 April 24-Insurrection in Dublin. April 29-British troops at Kut-el- Amara surrender to Turks.
 April 30-Irish revolution SUD- pressed.
 May 3-Irish leaders of insurreetion executed.
 May 4-Germany makes promise to change methods of submarine warfare. May 13-Austrians begin great offen- sive against Italians in Trentino. May 31-Great naval battle off Dan- ish coast.
 June 5-Lord Kitchener lost with cruiser Hampshire.
 June 11-Russians capture Dubno. June 29-Sir Roger Easement sen tenced to be hanged for treason. July 1-British and French begin great offensive on the Somme. July 6-David Lloyd George appoint ed secretary of war.
 July 9-German merchant submarine Deutschland arrives at Baltimore. July 23-General Kuropatkin's army wins battle near Riga.
 July 27-English take Delville wood j; Serbian forces begin attack on Bull gars in Macedonia.
 Aug. 2-French take Fleury. Aug. 3-Sir Roger Easement execut- ed for treason.
 Aug. 4-French recapture Thiau- mont for fourth time; British repulse Turkish attack on Suez canal. Aug. 7-Italians on Isonzo front cap ture Monte Sabotino and Monte San Michele.
  alton of Bitlis and Mush.
 Aug. 9-Italians cross Isonzo river and occupy Austrian city of Goeritz. Aug 10-Austrians eyacuate Stanis- lau; allies take Doiran, near Saloniki, from Bulgarians.
 Aug. 19-German submarines sink British light cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth.
 Aug. 24-Frcnch occupy Maurepas, north of the Somme; Russians recap ture Mush in Armenia.
 Aug. 27-Italy declares war on Ger many; Roumania enters war on side of allies.
 Aug. 29.-Field Marshal von linden burg made chief of staff of German armies, succeeding Gen. von Falken- hayn.
 Aug. 30-Russian armies seize all five passes in Carpathians into Hun gary.
 Sept. 3-Allies renew offensive north of Somme; Bulgarian and German troops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania. Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians capture Roumanian fortress of Tutra kan; Roumanians take Orsova, Bull garian city.
 Sept. -German-Bulgarian army captures Roumanian fortress of Sili- tria.
 Sept. 14-British for first time use tanks"
 Sept. 15-Italians begin new offen sive on Carso.
 Oct. 2-Roumanian army of inva- sion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans and Bulgarians under Von Mackensen. Oct 4-German submarines sink French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner Francona.
 Oct. S-German submarines sink six merchant steamships off Nantucket, Mass.
 Oct. 11-Greek seacoast forts dis mantled and turned over to allies on demand of England and France. Oct. 23.-GernAn-Bulgar armies cap ture ConStanZa, Roumania.
 1917
 Jan. 1-Submarine sinks British transport Ivernia.
 Jan. 9-Russian premier, Trepoff, re