Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1918-01-01
THE WORLD WAR

rave river from ZenSUn loon.
Jan. EPresidenl wilson presented his
railway control program 10 congress- ~
Germans. VIVA 'opeuoeo ny
Jan 5-Premier Lloyd George stated
brltalns war aims.
Jan IL. s. government began mobij-
cation of 1900. 90 workers.
Ss: SUPP em1 court upheld draft law.
ing IS officers. ~
Jan S-President Wilson stated Amer
Iea war aims and peace demands.
IAN. gRussla and Bulgaria signed sep
Jan. lo,Central powers withdrew offer
o. genera peace and offered Russia sep
tice for month. ~
Jan. l4-British airmen made big sue
cesslul daylight raid on Karlsruhe.
Germans bombarded Yarmouth from
the sea ~"
Jan. l5rDaniel Willard resigned as
mead Of U; ;. war industries board.
Jan. 2U-ln naval action at entrance to
Dardanelles the British sank Turkish
cruiser Breslau and forced the Goeben
ashore.
Jan. 21-British boarding ship Louvain
sunk; 224 lost.
Jan. 24-Germany and Austria replied to
peace proposals of Wilson and Lloyd
George. rejecting the concrete sugges-
lions.
Jan. 26-Twelve killed by explosion in
Newport naval torpedo station.
C'Soo3 Soplulc ny the DOlSQ6VlKl,
Jan. 2l-Russian government broke rela-
tons with Roumania.
Italians began offensive between Asiago
and the Brenta.
Roumanians took Kishinev.
London
Ukrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk.
Italians broke through Austrian line.
taking 1900 prisoners.
killed.
Jan. 31-Bolshevikl took Orenburg.
Feb: @A1lied supreme war council de-
clared war must be carried on to vic
Feb: ~: S. government took over
Feb. 5-Franz Won Rintelen and six
York.
Feb. 6-United States transport Tus-
CANA sunk by torpedo off Irish coast; 24
Americans lost.
Feb. 9-Peace treaty between Ukraine
and the central powers signed.
Feb. 1o.Russia declared the war at Al
end so far as she WIS concerned and
ordered complete rehabilitation; but re-
fused to sign peace treaty.
Feb; 14mBolo Pasha CONVEYED Of trea-
Feb. 15-President Wilson put all for
eign trade Of U. S. under license.
by German destroyers in Dover straits.
Feb 16-German a%viators attacked Lon
don, killing 81.
Feb. B-:Germans resumed war on Rus
sia, crossing the Dvina
Feb. l9-Germans took Dvinsk and
Lutsk; Bolsheviki offered to sign peace
treaty.
Bolshevik Don Cossack republic organ
ICED at Tcherkask, Gen. Kaledines hav-
ing committed suicide.
,a FEB; 31mGerm ma Etn INFESTED We Reval and
Feb. 21-Germans took Minsk and
Rovno.
Jericho captured by the British.
Enh 0o-Snnata naCSo1 Wilson Hill 70
rule railroads..
Feb. 23-President issued proclamation
stipulating government guaranteed price
prices varying from 81 at Spokane to $2.2S
at New York.
Feb. 25-Germans captured Reval.
Feb. 2S-Americans repulsed strong at
tack in Chemin des Danes sector with
heavy losses to attackers.
March 1+meA \ anri9 third Lib
U. S. troops repulsed raid in Toul sec
tor. suffering many casualties; German
British cruiser Calgarian torpedoed; 4S
lives lost.
March 3-Germans halted invasion of
Turkey big slice of territory.
March 4-French delivered surprise
blow near Verdun, penetrating German
lines.
British, French and Italian ambassa-
doris asked Japan to take necessary steps
to safeguard allied interests in Siberia.
British advanced on 12-mile front in
Palestine.
March 5-Amaricans in Lorraine re-
pulsed German attack and took prisoners.
President Wilson refused assent to Jap
anese Intervention in Russia.
Bernard M. Baruch named chairman of
the war industries board.
March 6-Roumania signed preliminary
peace treaty giving up Dobrudja and con-
troll of the Danube.
March 7-Germany and Finland signed
peace treaty.
March S-Trotzky resigned as foreign
minister Of Russia.
British advanced three miles on 1s-mile
front in Palestine.
British repulsed attack on Ypres-Dix-
nude line with heavy losses to enemy.
Eleven killed. As injured in air raid on
March 9-Nine persons killed in air
raid on Paris.
March 3 Ill. 11nsixty atrplanes bombed
Enemy a%viators attacked Naples. Seven
killed in hospital.
President. in message to soviets, pledg-
ed aid of United States to free Russia
from German control.
March 12-Ninety-five thousand drafted
men called to begin movement to can
comments March 20.
British a%viators dropped ton OF eXplos-
ives on COblenJz.
March 13-Germans seized Odessa:
March 14-American Rainbow division
from which they drove the enemy; first
permanent advance by Americans.
March 15-Germans repulsed with heavy
loss in Flanders by British.
An-Russian congress of soviets at Mos
COW ratified German peace terms.
March 1S-Alied supreme war council
condemned German treatment of Rus
slams and Roumanians and refused to
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March 1s-Amerfcan DESTROYER Manley
collided with British war vessel; Is killed.
March 2O-America and Great Britain
seized 1000 900 tons of Dutch shipping.
March 21-Germans opened heavy at
tack on British lines north of st. Quentin.
March 22-Great battle in France CON
tinued. Germans failing to break British
British in Palestine crossed the Jordan.
March 2s.British fell Up; back ,iab from i've est to
mated casualties, German. 250.0 900; British.
100000; French and American troops
brought up to support British.
Paris shelled by new German gun from
distance of rs miles.
March 25-Germans took Bapaume.
-Nesle and Guiscard.
March 26-British destroyed entire Turk
army near Hit, Mesopotamia
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