Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-29
tarch l5-~Czar Nieholas OF Russia

II March 1S--New French ministry
formed by Alexander Ribot.
March 21-Russian forces cross
Persian border into Turkish territory !;
/ American oil steamer HeaIdton torpe-
decd without warning.
March 22-United States recognizes
new government Of Russia.
March 27--General Murrays British
expedition into the Holy Land defeats
Turkish army near GAIA.
April president Wilson asks CON
gress to declare that acts OF Germany
/ constitute state of war; submarine
sinks American steamer Aztec without
warning.
April United States senate passes
lists with Germany.
April 6-House passes war resolution
and President Wilson signs joint reso-
| luton of congress.
April S-.Austria declares severance
| of diplomatic relatiens with United
! States
April British defeat Germans at
Vimy Ridge and take 5000 prisoners ;
United States seiZes IA Austrian in
termed ships
Oct. 24-French win back Douau-
mont. Thiaumont field work, Haudro-
mont quarries and Gillette wood near
Verdun, in smash Of two miles.
Nov. italians, IN new offensive on
the Carso plateau, capture $500 Aus
! TRANS.
Nov. 2-Germans cvacuate Fort
Vaux at Verdun.
Nov. 5-Germans and Austrians pro-
claim new kingdom of Poland of ter
ritory captured from Russia.
| Nov. 6-Submar;lne sinks British
passenger steamer Arabia.
Nov. Cardinal MERCER protests
| against German deportation of Bel
| gians; submarine sinks American
| steamer Columbian.
Nov S-Russian army invades
Pennsylvania, Hungary.
Nov 9-Austro- German armies de-
| feat Russians in Volhynia and take
1900 prisoners.
Nov. 13-British launch new often
sive in Somme region on both sides of
| Ancre
| Nov. 14-Britsh capture fortified vii
| lage of Beaucourt. near the Ancre.
| Nov. 19-Serbian, French and Rus
sian troops recapture AIonastir; Ger
mans cross Pennsylvania Alps and en-
| ter western Roumania.
Nov. 21-British hospital ship Brit
annie sunk by mine in Aegean sea.
| Nov. 23-ROumanian army retreats
| 90 miles from Bucharest.
Nov. 4-German-Bulgarian armies
take Orsova and TurnuSeyerin from
| Roumanlans.
Nov. 25-Greek provisional govern
ment declares war on Germany and
| Bulgaria.
Nov 2S-Roumanian government
! abandons Bucharest and moves capital
| to Jassy.
| Dec. 5-Premier Herbert Asquith of
England resigns.
Dec. david Lloyd George accepts
British premiership.
| Dec. Seen Won Mackensen cap
lures big Roumanian army in Prohova
valley.
Dec 12-Chancellor Won Bethmann-
| Hollweg announces in reichstag that
Germany will propose peace; new cab
met in France under Aristide BRAND
as premier, and Gen. Robert Georges
Nivelle given chief OF command Of
French army.
Dec. 15-Ffench at Verdun win two
miles of front and capture 1900.
Dec. 1O-Lloyd George declines Ger
man peace proposals.
Dec. 23-Baron Burian succeeded as
minister of foreign affairs in Austria
by Count Czernin.
Dec, 26-Germany proposes to Presi-
dent Wilson ian immediate meeting of
delegates of the belligerents."
Dec. 27--Russians defeated in five
day battle In eastern Wallachia, Rou-
mania.
April 20-Turkey sewers diplomatic
relations with the q. S.
April 2S-Congress passes selective
service act for raising of army Of 50O,-
600; Guatemala sewers diplomatic re-
lations with Germany.
May War department orders rails
ing of nine volunteer regiments of en-
gineerS to go to France.
May Espionage act becomes law
by passing senate.
May 1S-President Wilson signs Sc
lective service act. Also directs ex-
peditionary force of regulars under
General Pershing to go to France
May 19-Congress passes war appro-
priation bill of S3000O0O,OOO.
June 5-Nearly 100000 men In
U. s. register for military service.
June 12-King Constantine Of Greece
abdicates.
June 13-General Pershing and staff
arrive in Paris.
June 15-First Liberty loan closes
with large oversubscription.
June 26-First contingent American
troops under General Sibert arrives in
France.
June 29-Greece sewers diplomatic