The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-12-19

Jan. 9--British evacuate Gallipoli
peninsula.
Jan. 13-Austrians capture Cetlnje,
capital OF Montenegro.
Jan. 23--Scutari, capital Of Albania.
captured by Austrians.
Feb. 22-Crown princes army begins
attack ON verdun.
March s--Germany declares war on
Portugal.
March 15-Austria- 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-
tion.
April 24-Insurrection In Dublin.
April 29-British troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrender to Turks.
April 30-Irish revolution sup
pressed.
May 3-Irish leaders Of insurrection
executed.
May 4-Germany makes promise to
change methods Of submarine warfare.
May 13-Austrians begin great often
sive against Italians In Trentino.
May 3l-Great naval battle Off Dan
ish coast.
June 5-Lord Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire.
June 11-Russians capture Dubno.
June 20-Sir Roger Easement SEN
fenced to be hanged for treason.
July 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
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 tiirn: British repulse
Turkish attack on Suez canal.
Aug. 7-Italians on Isonzo front cap
ture Monte Sabotino and Monte San
Michele.
Aug. S-Turks force Russian evacu-
alton of Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. 9-Italians cross Isonzo river
and occupy Austrian city Of Goeritz.
Aug. 10-Austrians evacuate Stanis-
lau; allies take Doiran, near Salonlkl,
from Bulgarians.
Aug. 10-German submarines sink
British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth.
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 Won Hinden-
burg made chief of staff of German
armies. succeeding Gen. Won Falken-
hayn.
Aug. 30-Russian armies seize oil
Ave 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. Observation-Disclosures army
captures Roumanian fortress Of Sill
tria.
Sept. 14-British for first time use
tanks"
Sept. 15-Italians begin new often
sive on Carso.
Oct. 2-Roumanian army Of inva-
sion In Bulgaria defeated BY Germans
and Bulgarians under voa Mackensen.
Oct. +German submarines sink
French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner
Franconia.
Oct. S-German submarines sink six
merchant steamships OF Nantucket,
Mass.
Oct. l1-Greek seacoast forts dis
mantled and turned over to allies on
demand Of England and France.
Oct. 23.-German-Bulgar armies cap
ture Constansa. Roumania.
1917
Jan. Submarine sinks British
transport Iveraia.
Jan. e-RussiaA premier. Trepon. re-
signs. Golitzin succeeds him.
Jan. 3l-0ermany announces unre-
stricted submarine warfare.
Feb. SEPresident Wilson reviews
submarine controversy before con-
gress; United States sewers diplomatic
relations with Germany; American
steamer Housatonic sunk without
warning.
Feb. 7-Senate indorses presidents
act Of breaking of diplomatic rela-
tions.
Feb. 12-United States refuses Ger
man request to discuss matters of diff