El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-16

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Cossack revolt
December 15-Armistice signed be
. tween Germany and the BolsheTil
= government Mt Brest-LitOVsk.
December 23-Peace negotiation
opened at Brest-Litovsk between Bol
, shevik government and Contra
Powers. under presidency Of the Ger
man foreign minister.
December 26-Presldent Wilson Is
sued proclamation taking over rail
roads and appointing W. G. McAdO'
director general. Proclamation tool
effect ut noon two days later.
December 29-British national labo
conference approves continuation o
war for aims similar TO those defined
by president Wilson.
1918.
] January German raids on British
lines between Lens and St Quentin
lrepulsed with heavy losses In thrus
at Venice Austro-German raiders de
feated. Germany demands Poland
/, Russia Alexandrovsk occupied b.
fCossacks without resistance. Marie
lcorelli, novelist, fined BY British
food controller for having too much
sugar.
January 5-Lloyd George sets forth
Great Britain,s war aims in speech
to Trades Unions
January 6-French newspapers al.
most unanimously approve speech OF
Lloyd George
January I'm mutiny at Kiel. Ger.
man naval base, submarine crew kill
IS of their officers. Earl Reading
lord chief justice OF England is APP
pointed British high commissioner tc
4 the United States
January S-Italian government pro-
lhibits making and sale OF cake. con-
lfectionery and pastry
January British destroyer Rae
coon strike rock on Irish coast and
is lost with crew Of l05-
! January 10-Beriin reports bring
ing down 119 allied airpianes and
nine balloons during December and
admits loss OF So airplanes and two
balloons.
January 1.-TWO British torpedo
boat destroyers on Scotch coast lost
with all on board but one.
I January 13-French minister OF war
places all postal and telegraph serv-
ices under military control
January 14-Premier Clemencesu
orders arrest Of former premier Call
/ iaux on high treason charge Unsuc-
cessful attempt made to shoot Lenine,
Russian premier
I January 1S-Prussian chamber OF
| lords reaffirm exclusive right of Ger
man emperor to make war or peace.
Premier George makes famous state
ment; I'VE must either go on or go
under.
January 19-American troops take
over sector northwest OF TOuL
January 22-Baron Rhondda, British
food controller, DEGREES Tuesdays and
Fridays to be meatless days in Lon
don-in other parts OF Kingdom We'd
nesdays and Fridays.
January 25-Count Won Hertling
discusses president Wilson's war and
peace program and outlines Ger
many's peace terms in the reichstag.
January 26-Hungarian cabinet re-
signs.
January ss-Eleven ounce bread "a
ton effective in France.
January 29-Italians capture Monte
di val Bella with 1000 prisoners and
100 machine guns.
January so-Germans kill IS in
Paris raid.
February Argentine minister OF
war recalls military attaches from
Berlin and Vienna
February 4-Triai OF Bolo Pasha
for treason begun in Paris.
February 5-American steamer
Alamance torpedoed. six Of crew lost
February 6-Tuscania, American
transport, torpedoed off coast OF Ire
land; 101 lost.
February 6-Rumanian cabinet re-
signs on receipt of demand from Won
Mackensen demanding start OF peace
negotiations within four days
February 1O-Russia declares state
of war with Germany.
February 12-British government
declines to recognize Brest-Litovsk
treaty.
February 12-President Wilson ad-
dresses joint session on war aims.
February 14-Bolo Pasha found
guilty.
February 15-Germany decides to
renew war on Russia
February 16-Sir William Robert
son resigns. succeeded by Sir Henry
February 17-Lord Northcliffe ap-
pointed director Of propaganda in
enemy countries
February 22-American troops in
Chemin des Danes sector.
February 22-Senate passes rail-
road bill
February 24-Amerienn Eunners
rOuf enemy at Toul.
February 26-British hospital ship.
Glenart Castle. torpedoed in British
..FebFaary a7-HOuss passes alien
Stacker bill
February 2T-Japan proposes joint
military operations with allies in
Siberia to save military and other
February 2s-spanish cabinet re-
signs House passes railroad control
bill. giving president power to fix
February ss-House adopts railroad
bill
March 1-Americans gain signal VIC
tory in salient north OF Toul.
March s-kiev occupied by German
and Ukrainlan troops.
March Treaty signed between
Germany and Finland
March 5-Rumania signs prelimi-
nary treaty OF peace with Central
Powers.
March 6-Announcement made that
American troops are holding four and
a half miles OF battle front in France.
March S-Air raid on Paris, killing
-. one mile OF enemy trenches on
Lorraine front obliterated by United
States troops Russian capital moved
from Petrograd to Moscow.
March 11-Amerfcan troops 20
over the top ut TOul.
March 12-Bolo Pasha's appeal from
death sentence rejected
March 13-German troops enter
Odessa.
March 15-French troops recapture
trenches held by forces OF Crown
Prince since March /.
March 16-Senate passes daylight
saving bill.
March 2o-President Wilson orders
all Holland ships in American ports
taken over.
March 21-President Wilson signs
government control bill
March 21-BeginninE OF big Ger
man drive on so mile front from Ar
ras 10 La Fere. American artillery
fire destroys enemy first and second
line positions In Luneville sector.
March 24-Germans occupy Peronne
and Baupaume.
March 3s-British defeat Turks in
Mesopotamia- Lloyd George appeals !
for American reinforcements.
March 27-Gen. Pershing, in France. /
offers all United States forces where
ever needed