The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15
ceeds Sir John French as chief OF
English armies on west front.
1916

Jan. British troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrounded.
Jan. British ~evacuate Gallipoli
peninsula.
Jan. l3-Austrians capture Cetinie,
capital of Montenegro.
Jan. 23-Scutari, capital OF Albania,
captured by Austrians.
Feb. 22-Crown princes army begins
attack on Verdun.
March S-Germany declares war on
Portugal.
March 15-Austria- Hungary declares
war OF Portugal.
March 24-Steamer Sussex t~orpedoed
and sunk.
April 1S-President Wilson sends
note to Germany.
April 19-President Wilson speaks to
congress, explaining diplomatic situa-
ton.
April 24-Insurrection in Dublin.
April 29-British troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrender to Turks.
April 30-Irish revolution sup
pressed.
May 3-Irish leaders Of insurrection
executed.
May 4-Germany makes promise to
change methods of submarine warfare.
May 13-Austrians begin great often
sive against Italians In Trentino.
May 31-Great naval battle off Dan
iSh coast.
June 5-Lord Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire.
June 11-Russians capture Dubno.
June 29-Sir Roger Easement sen
fenced to be hanged for treason.
July British and French begin
great offensive on the SOmme.
July 6-David Lloyd George appoint
ed secretary Of war.
July GERMAN merchant submarine
Deutschland arrives at Baltimore.
July 23-General Kuropatkin's army
wins battle near Riga.
July 27-English take Delville wood !;
Serbian forces begin attack on Bull
CARS in Macedonia.
Aug. 2-French take Fleury.
Aug. 3-Sir Roger Easement execut-
ed for treason.
Aug. 4-French recapture Thiau-
mont for fourth time; British repulse
Turkish attack on Suez canal.
Aug. Italians on IsonZO front cap
ture Monte Sabotino and Monte San
Michele.
Aug. S-Turks force Russian evacu-
alton Of Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. eItalians cross IsOnzo river
and occupy Austrian city Of Goeritz.
Aug. 1O-Austrians e%vacuate Stanis-
lau; allies take Doiran, near Saloniki,
from Bulgarlans.
Aug. 19-German submarines sink
British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth.
Aug. 24-French occupy Maurepas,
north of the Somme; Russians recap
ture Mush in Armenia.
Aug. 27-Italy declares val on Ger
many; Roumania enters war on side
of allies.
Aug. 29.-Field Marshal Won linden
burg made chief of staff of German
armies, succeeding Gen. Won Falken-
hayn.
Aug. 30-Russian armies seize all
five passes in Carpathians into Hun
gary.
Sept. 3-Allies renew offensive north
of Somme; Bulgarian and German
troops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania.
Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians
capture Roumanian fortress of Tutra-
kan; Roumanians take Orsova, Bull
garian city.
Sept. Observation-Disclosures army
captures Roumanian fortress of Sill
tria.
Sept. 14-British for first time use
tanks"
Sept. 15-Italians begin new often
sive on CarsO.
Oct. 2-Roumanian army of inva-
sion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans
and Bulgarians under Won Mackensen.
Oct. Herman submarines sink
French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner
F%rancOnia.
Oct. S-German submarines sink six
merchant steamships Off Nantucket,
Mass.
Oct. 11-Greek seacoast forts dis
mantled and turned over to allies on
demand of England and France.
Oct. -Bulgar armies cap
ture Constanza, ROumania.
1917
Jan. Submarine sinks British
transport Ivernia.
Jan. 9-Russian premier, Trepoff, re-
signs. Golitzin succeeds him.
Jan. 31-Germany announces unre-
stricted submarine warfare.
Feb. 3-President Wilson reviews
submarine controversy before con-
gress; United States sewers diplomatic
relations with Germany; American
steamer Housatonic sunk without
warning.
Feb. 7--Senatc Endorses presidents
oct of breaking off dinlOmatic rela-