The Tupelo journal., 1918-01-11

September.
| Sept. 1.-British destroyers destroyed
-four German armed trawlers OF Jutland.
/ Sept. 3.-Russfans abandoned Riga.
German airplanes raided Chatham, Eng
Sept. z-ftaiians captured Monte San
German submarine shelled Scarborough
and airplanes bombed London.
Sept. 5.-American National army began
movement to cantonments.
Federal agents raided /. w. w. quar-
tiers throughout country
Organized labor met In Minneapolis to
form loyal organization.
American merchantmen under convoy
attacked by U-boats; two steamships and
one submarine I'M
al Sept. s;mH Ii 'sss e. Rss 4se i T ponS sTe ana c e1ll
tificates.
Sept. 7.-Atlantic transport lines Mime
haha torpedoed; so dead.
German aviators bombed American hos
pital camp, killing five.
Sept. 8.-Secretary Lansing exposed vio-
lations of neutrality by Swedish officials in
Argentina and Stockholm, in transmitting
German c~ablegrams advising sinking of
Argentine vessels.
French abine resigned.
Sept 9.-Korniloff, commander in chief
of Russian armies, headed military coun-
ter revolution and was dismissed by ker-
ensky.
Sept. 1o:-senate passed war revenue bill
itotaling. s., All, &c. 600.
Paul Painleve became French premier.
Sept. n.-Austrians failed in desperate
attacks on Monte San Gabrielle.
Sept. L2.-Count Luxburg, German min
lister to Argentina, given his passports;
anti-German riots in Buenos Aires, !.
Kerensky made commander in chief of
Russian armies.
Trading with the enemy bill passed, with
amendment ~forbidding publication of war
comment in German without English
translation.
Council of three given supreme author
ity in Poland by Germany and Austria.
Sept 13.-Korniloff's revolt collapsed.
Secretary Lansing exposed unneutral
e ety. of former Swedish charge in Mexico
Russian army advanced toward Riga.
Sept. A.-ltalians drove Austrians from
Monte San Gabrielle summit
Sept. 15.-Senate passed bill for $11, $685.
956, 400 bond issues.
British naval aircraft destroyed one Ger
man destroyer and some awlers near Os-
Sept. 16.-Premier Kerensky proclaimed
Russia q republic.
sept 1,.-Costa RIGA broke off relations
,wlth Germany.
Germany apologized to Argentina for
Luxburg's actions, but Argentina demand
ed full formal explanation.
Roumanians took German positions neal
VarnitZa.
Sept. 18.-Russia began reorganization of
army, supervising soldiers committees.
House passed N.1A.ooo.ooo deficiency wal
Sept. p~.-Argentine senate voted for
break with Germany.
Sept. @.-British began great offensive
east Of Ypres..
President Wilson named board to adjust
Sept. 2.-Secretary Lansing published
message Of Won Bernstorff to Berlin ask
ing leave TO spend $4,000 Ito influence con-
gresS."
Costa RIGA severed diplomatic relations
with Germany.
Germany and Austria replied favorably
to pope's peace proposal:
General Bliss succeeded General Scott as
chief of staff, U. 5. A.
Germans broke through Russian line at
Jacobstadt. =
tails of Bernstorf's plotting before u. s.
entered the war.
Fierce fighting continued in Flanders.
British bombarded Ostend.
Sept. ZS.-Secretary Lansing disclosed
German abuse of u. S. protection by con-
cealing in Bucharest legation explosives
and disease germs after u. s. had taken
it over.
Russians took German positions near
Pskoff.
sept. Alderman airplanes raided Eng
land, killing ~.
War industries board and producers cut
Germans lost heavily in attacks near
Verdun.
Sept. 25.-Germans made two more air
raids on England.
Argentine m of deputies voted to
sever relations with Germany.
u. S. senate passed IS, 000,0 1000 war de-
ficiency bill.
Sept. 2S.-British took strong positions
from Germans east and northeast of
Ypres.
Germany offered to evacuate Belgium
under certain conditions.
Peru presented ultimatum to Germany
concerning sinking OF bark Lorton.
Strike of iron workers al San Francisco
ended.
Gen. Soukhomlnoff, former wal minis
ter of Russia, sentenced for life for high
treason.
Sept. N.-Democratic congress met in Pc
trograd.
for sedftious conspiracy.
Sept. 29.-British captured Ramadie, Me-
sopotamia, and it's large garrison.
German airplaneS raided London.
British airplanes bombed Zeebrugge.
Rioters at Essen demanded peace anu
food.
Sept. 3o.-Two more air raids made on
London
Fuel Administrator Garfield set limits
for retail prices of coal:
Italians made big gains on Bainsizza
plateau.
Great mass meeting for peace held in
Revolt in Russian Turkestan.
October.
Oct. HEAVY attacks of Germans re-
pulsed by French and British, and of Aus
TRANS by Italians.
Four groups of German airplanes raid
ed London and coast towns.
Second Liberty loan campaign started.
French airmen made reprisal raids on
Frankfort, Stuttgart, Treves and Cob
lenz, and British bombed Z~eebrugge locks.
Oct. british repulsed six desperate
German attacks in Flanders.
British cruiser Drake torpedoed; ~
killed.
Oct. s.-President Wilson signed the war
tax bill.
Russian democratic congress voted
against a coalition government.
Oct. 4.-British won great battle east OF
Ypres.
Oct. 5,-French repulsed violent attack
on Hill 344.
Oct. 6.-Peru broke off relations with
Germany.
Congress completed it's war program
and adjourned.
Oct. 7.-Uruguay severed relations with
Germany.
Oct. S.-Pershing and Bliss commissioned
generals.
Oct. 9.-British and French made an
other big advance in Flanders.
Oct. N-Secretary Lansing revealed
Bernstorff's part in German sabotage plots
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