Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-01-08

Nicaragua fndorsed course of United
April 2O-Russian council of worimens
and soldiers delegates declared aSalhst
Two German destroyers sunk off Dover;
A. IL 2l.-British war commission arrived
in United States.
Turkey severed relations WIN CHteu
April M.-French war commission ar
rived in United States.
British made further advances IN ATra !s
sector in face of desperate opposition oy
Germans.
April 25.-German. destroyers bombarded
Dunkirk but were driven off.
1 American tanker Vacuum sunk by sub
marine; naval lieutenant and gunners
1 April N.-British occupied ArIeaux and
April 2s.FCongress passed army bills
with selective CONSUMPTION features
Guatemala severed relations with Ger
April 2s.-General Petain made chief of
French staff.
demanded his passports
| British began new offensive west OF
Queant, and took Fresnoy I croo,n.
House passed espionage bill with mooi-
fed press censorship clause;
British transport Transylvania torpe-
Nav 5.-French made big advance on
| four mile front southwest of Laon.
May 6.-Bolivia severed relations with
Nav f-Coalition government of provi-
sional government and soldiers and work.
mems delegates formed in Russia
May S.-Germans recaptured Fresnoy
from British
May 11.-Italy reported destruction of ID
German submarines In one Week tr.5,a
May 12.-British again hit the linden
burg line. establishing themselves near
Nay 14.Gsenate passed espionage bills
| without prohibition and press censorship
clauses.
italians attacked along the whole. Isonzo
front. gaining ground north of Goritz.
OhicerS'~ 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 7.--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 0 for
registration day.
Honduras severed relations with Ger
many
c. Hoover as head of food control board.
Nicaragua severed relations with Ger
many
Senate passed the s., S42, 100000 war bud
get.
May 2S.-House passed war tax bill car
rying $3.50 100000.
| Secretary Lansing refused passports for
American delegates to Stockholm social
| list peace conference.
| American ship carrying supplies to
| Switzerland sunk by torpedo
| cabinet resigned.
| May A.-Italians broke through Austrian
! front from Castagnayizza to Gulf 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 &c and injuring 1744.
| Ma, 27.-Italians again broke through
Austrian lines.
100000 volunteers for regular army.
! London reported sinking of hospital snip
and armed cruiser by submarines.
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.-American commission to Rus
STA, headed by Root, reached Russian port.
| French repulsed five great attacks south
June 4-Brussiloff made commander in
| chief of Russian armies.
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
of the Scarpe.
American liner sank German submarine
| after long fight.
British squadron bombarded Ostend and
sank German destroyer.
June 7.-British began great offensive Ia
hlOUinR MaSSinpS ridge
! advancing miles on Smile front,
! Strengthening out big salient.
June S.-General Pershing and staff ar
Germany broke of relations with r-aiti.
! June 10.-General Pershing's staff ar
| rived in France.
| Heavy fighting renewed in the Trentino,
| Italians making gains.
June liking Constantine of Greece,
pX Sne aeS s secend m OF
American steamship Petrolite reported
| sunk by submarine
| June 1S-Germans made air RAID on Lon
! don, killing 81 and wounding 437.
| Army and navy deficiency appropriation
bill carrying s9.0OO,OOO,oO0 passed by con-
Prince Alexander took oath as king of
! Greece.
June 14-British made big advance east
! and south of Messines
| June 15.-Liberty loan heavily over-sub-
| scribed when books closed.
! June 20.-President Wilson issued call
| June 22-French repulsed violent attacks
of Germans on the Chemin des Danes.
June 23.-House passed food control bill
June 2.-President Wilson appointed
exports council composed of the secre-
! taries Of state. agriculture and commerce
and the food administrator
June 26.-American coal barons agreed to
| fixing of prices.
First contingent of Pershing's army
June 27.-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 allies
and Germany.
| June 29.-Greece broke off diplomatic re-
lations with Germany, Austria, Bulgaria
ant July 1N.@Russians captured Koniuchy,
| Galicia, and Turkish strongholds in the
July S.-French repulsed great German
attack near Cerny.
Germans made air raid on London, kill
ing 81 and losing number of planes.
| July S-President Wilson 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
for coal.
July 9.-New Austrian cabinet resigned.
President Wilson called entire Natione!
Guard and its reserve into the federal
service by August s.
British battleship Vanguard destroyed
by interior explosion; 500 lost.
| July 10-Russians broke Teuton line
east of Lemberg and took Halicz.
! July u-President Wilson called on
| American business interests to aid nation
by foregoing unusual profits in selling to
the nation and the public.
July 12.-Russian advance checked west
4 of Bohorodozany.
July l4-Chancellor Bethmann- Hollweg
resigned and DR.. G. E. Michaelis succeed
ed him
July T.-French took German trenches
near Malancourt.
Three members of Russian cabinet re-
signed, riots in Petrograd suppressed
Shake-up In British cabinet
Finland diet adopted independence bill
July 1S,-Great German attack between
Craonne and Hurtebise partly successful.
Chancellor Michaels declared himself
for the submarine warfare
In Vilgna region Germans drove back
Russians because some Russian regiments
held meetings to decide whether to obey
orders.