Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-11-28

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April 10-Germans AXE 10000 Brit
ish prisoners in Flanders.
= April 16-Germans capture Messines
ridge. near Ypres; Bolo Pasha exc
Cuted.
April 23-British and French navies
bottle up Zeebrugge.
April 26-Germans capture Mount
KENNEL, taking $500 prisoners.
May o-Austria starts drive on Italy.
tend.
I May 24-British ship Moldavia. car
rying American troops, torpedoed; Sc
lost.
May 27-Germans begin third phase
of drive on west front; gain five miles.
May 2S-Germans take 5000 pris-
Oners in drive.
May 29-Germans take Scissors and
menace Reims. American troops cap
ture Cantigny.
May 30-Germans reach the Marne.
55 miles from Paris.
May 31-Germans take $4,000 pris-
oners in drive.
June 1-Germans advance nine
miles: are 46 miles from Paris.
June olive German submarines
attack United States coast and sink
IL ships.
june 5-United States marines fight
on the Marine near Chateau Thierry.
June 9-Germans start fourth phase
of their drive by advancing toward
Noyon.
June 10EGermans gain two miles
United States marines capture south
end OF Belleau wood.
June 2-French and Americans
start counter attack.
juno 15-Austrians begin another
drive on Italy and take 10000 prisoners.
June 17-1talians check Austrians on
Piave river.
Juno 19-Austrians cross the Piave.
Juno 22-Italians defeat Austrians or
the Piave.
June 23-Austrians begin great re-
treat across the Piave.
July 16-General Foch launches allied
offensive. with French. American. Brit
ish, Italian and Belgian troops.
July 21-Ameyicans and French cap
ture Chateau Thierry.
July 30-German crown prince fees
from the Marine and withdraws army.
Aug. 2-Soissons r~ecaptured by Foch.
AUG. 4Americans take Fismes.
Aug. 5-American troops landed at
A%rchangel.
Aug. 7-Americans cross the Vesle.
Aug. 16-Bapaume recaptured.
AUG. 26-French recross the Somme.
Sept. 1-Foch retakes Peronne.
Sept. 12-Americans launch success
full attack in ST. Mihiel salient.
Sept. 28-Allies win on 250-mile line.
from North sea to Verdun.
Sept. 29-Allies cross Hindenburg
line.
Sept. 30-Bulgaria ~surrenders. after
successful allied campaign in Balkans.
Oct. French take st. Quentin.
Oct. Austria asks Holland to me-
diate with allies for peace.
Oct. 5-Germans start abandonment
Of Lille n burn Douai.
Oct. Germany asks President
Wilson for armistice.
Oct. LAmericans capture hills
Oct. president Wilson refuses
armistice.
Oct. 9-Ares capture, Cambria.
Oct. 10-Allies capture lie Cateau.
Oct. 11-American transport Otranto
torpedoed and sunk: 500 lost.
Oct. 13-Foch's troops take Laon and
La Fere.
Oct. 14-British and Belgians take
Roulers: President Wilson demands
surrender by Germany.
Oct. 15-British and Belgians cross
Lys river. take IL, 900 prisoners and 100
guns.
Oct. 16-Alies enter Lille outskirts.
Oct. 17-Allies capture Lille. Brugges.
Zeebrugge. Ostend and Douai.
Oct. f8-Czecho -Slovaks issue dec
and seize Prague. capital Of Bohemia:
French take Theldt.
Oct. 10-President Wilson refuses
Austrian peace plea and says Czecho-
Slovak state must be considered.
Oct. 21-AlMes cross Disc n threat
en- Valenciennes.
Oct. 22-Haig's forces cross the
Scheldt.
Oct. 23-President Wilson refuses
latest German peace plea.
Oct. 27-German government asks
President Wilson to state terms.
Oct. 28-Austria begs for separate
Oct. 2e-Austria opens direct neeo-
tiations with Secretary Lansing.
Oct. Galatians infict great defeat
on Austria; capture $4,000; Austrians
evacuating Italian territory.
Oct. 31-Turkey ~surrenders; AUS
TRANS utterly routed by Italians; lose
$4,000; Austrian ENJOYS, under white
flag. enter Italian lines.
Nov. Italians pursue beaten AUS
TRANS across Tagliamento river; allied
terms for Germany.
Nov. 1Austria signs armistice
amounting Virtually to unconditional
Nov. +Allied terms are sent to
Nov. -Germany's ENJOYS accept
armistice conditions.
Nov. 9-Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates
and crown prince throne.
Nov. 10-Former Kaiser Wilhelm and
his eldest son. Frederick Wilhelm. fee
to Holland to escape widespread revo-
luton throughout Germany.
Nov. 11-Final signatures attached
and peace officially proclaimed.
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