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and soldiers delegates declared against
separate peace
Two Gafman destroyers sunk off Dover.
April H:-British war commission arrived
Turkey severed relations with United
States.
April N.-French war commission ar
rived In United States.
sector in face Of desperate opposition by
Germans.
April 25-Gernan destroyers bombarded
Dunkirk but were driven off.
American tanker Vacuum sunk by SUBJ
marine; naval lieutenant and 9 gunners
April 27.-British occupied Arleaux and
April .2S..Congress passed army bills
with selective CONSUMPTION features.
Guatemala severed relations with Ger
| many.
April 2s.,Generai Petain made chief of
May 3,-Chilean minister to Germany
demanded his passports.
British began new offensive west of
Queant and took Fresnoy.
May 4.-French captured Craonne.
House passed espionage bill with modi-
| fed press censorship clause:
British transport Pennsylvania torpe-
| decd; 413 lives lost.
May 5.-French made big advance on
| four mile front southwest of Laon.
May 6.-Bolivia severed relations with
May 7-Coalition government of provi-
sional government and soldiers and work
mems delegates formed in Russia,
May 8.-Germans recaptured Fresnoy
May 11-Italy reported destruction of 10
| German submarines in one week.
Chicago board of trade stopped trading
| May 12-British again hit the linden
burg burg line, establishing themselves near
without prohibition and press censorship
| clauses.
italians attacked along the whole Isonzo
front, gaining. ground north of Goritz.
Officers training camps opened.
| May 15.-Chancelor Hollweg before the
Reichstag refused to discuss Germany's
peace aims.
Trading in wheat futures stopped in six
middle west exchanges.
Italians made big gains on Julian front.
taking Monte Cucco and Monte Vodice.
May H.-Senate passed army draft bill.
May is.@President Wilson ordered one
division, commanded by General Pershing,
sent to France at once. He also signed
the, army draft bill and set June for
Honduras severed relations with Ger
| many.
May 19-President Wilson selected H.
| Nicaragua severed relations with Ger
| many
Senate passed the s3,342. 1000 war bud
get.
May 2s.-House passed war tax bill car
rying s1,870000,000.
Secretary Lansing refused passports for
American delegates to Stockholm social
list peace conference
Switzerland sunk by torpedo.
Premier Tisza and entire Hungarian
May A-Italians broke through Austrian
| front from CaqtQQnayiZZQ To (3nlf of
| Trieste, taking 5000 prisoners.
May 25-First American field service
corps went to front In France.
Germans made air raid on southeastern
England, killing 76 and injuring 1744.
May T..-Italians again broke through
Austrian lines.
100000 volunteers for regular army.
| London reported sinking of hospital ship
and armed cruiser by submarines. =,
Brazil chamber Of deputies authorized
revocation of neutrality decree.
| June 2.-Senate passed first of admin
istration's food bills.
| Fourteen German and Hindoo plotters
indicted by federal grand jury at Chicago.
| u. s. railroad commission to Russia ar
rived at Vladivostok.
June 3.-AmericaI commission to Rus
| sia headed by Root, reached Russian port.
French repulsed five great attacks south
of Laon.
June 4.-Brussiloff made commander In
chief of Russian. armies.
June 5-More than ten million young
Americans registered for the National
army.
German aviators raided naval base in
| the Midway near London, but were driven
| off, losing eight machines.
British made big advance on north bank
American liner sank German submarine
British squadron bombarded Ostend and
sank German destroyer.
Belgium, blowing up Messines ridge and
advancing miles on smile front.
Strengthening out big salient.
June s.-General Pershing and stan ar
Germany broke or relations with Haiti
June 1O-General Pershing's stan ar
rived in France.
| Heavy fighting renewed In the Trentino,
| Italians making gains.
June liking Constantine. Of Greece.
forced by the allies, abdicated In favor OF
| Prince Alexander. his second son.
American steamship Petrolite reported
June i3-Germans made air raid on Lon
don. killing. 81 and wounding 4S1
bill carrying s3,oOoOoo.oO0 passed by con-
gress. ~, IT., :.
june 14-British made big advance east
and south of Messines.
June 15.-Liberty loan heavily over-sub-
scfibed when books closed.
| June 20.-President. Wilson issued call
| for 10000 volunteers for regular army.
| June 22,-French repulsed violent attacks
| of Germans on the Chemin des Danes. :.
June 23.-House passed food control Dill
| with 'bone dry" amendment.
| June 2.-President Wilson appointed an
exports council composed OF the secre.
taries Of state agric,uiratTe ana commerce
1 June 26.--American coal barons agreed 70
fixing of prices.
'a June H-second contingent of Pershing's
| army landed in France.
New Greek cabinet headed by Venizelos
CONGRESS Of workmen's and soldiers
| delegates of all Russia adopted resolution
rejecting any move for separate peace. -,
June 2s.-Brazil revoked its decree of
neutrality in war between entente alues
AM Tune 9'.@Greece broke off diplomatic re-
| lations with Germany, Austria, Bulgaria
a! Tuly i.@Russians captured Koniuchy,
| Gaiicia, and Turkish strongholds in the
July s~French repulsed great German
July Russians successfully attacked
Germans made air raid on London. kill
ing uy snq lSsas Wison proclaimed an
embargo on shipments of food, fuel, steel
and, munitions, to cut Off supplies from
/ neutral countries to Germany except dairy
products for non-combatants In exchange
Tor coal.
President Wilson called entire National
Guard and its reserve into the federal
service by August 5.
British battleship Vanguard destroyed
by interior explosion; 500 lost;
| July 1O-Russsans broke Teutoa line
east Of Lemberg and took Halicz.
July M.-President Wilson called on
American business interests to aid nation
by foregoing unusual profits In selling to
the nation and the public.
Of Extraordinary.
July M.-Chancellor Bethmann-H ollweg
resigned and DR.. g. E. Michaelis succeed
House passed s64o,ooo.ooo aviation bill.
July 17--French took German trenches
near Malancourt.
Three members OF Russian cabinet re-
signed; riots in Petrograd suppressed.
Shake-up in British cabinet.