The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-12-26

| Jan. S-British troops 1t Kut-ei
.Amara surrounded.
Jan. 9-Brltish evacuate GaIlipol
peninsula.
7 Jan. 13-Austrians capture Cetln1e
capital of Montenegro.
Jan. 23-Scutari. capital Of Albania
captured by Austrians.
Feb. 22-Crown princes army begins
attack on verdun.
March @Germany declares war on
Portugal
March 15-Austria-Hu Hungary declares
war on Portugal.
March 2-Steamer Sussex torpeioed
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 3O-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 Dam
ish coast.
June 5--Lord Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire. 49,.
June 11-Itussians capture DubnO.
June 29-Sir Roger Easement sem
fenced to be hanged for treason.
July british and French begin
great offensive on the Somme.
July 6-pavid Lloyd George appoint
ed secretary of war;
July 9-German merchant submarine
Deutschland arrives Mt Baltimore.
July 23-tieneral Kuropatkin's army
wins battle near Riga.
July 27-EngglisA t4ke Delvillt. wood !:
Serbian forces begin attack on Bull
CARS in Macedonia.
Aug 2-French take Fleury.
Aug. 2-Sir- Roger Easement 4execut-
ed for treason.
Aug. 4-French recaptnre Thiau-
mont for fourth time: British repulse
Turkish attack on Suez canal
Aug. Italians on IsonzO front cap
ture Monte Sabotino and Monte San
Aug. S-Turks force Russian evacu-
alton OF Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. 9-Italians cross Isonzo river
md occupy Austrian city Of Goeritz.
Aug. 10-Austrians evacuate Stanis-
lau; allies take Dorian, near Saloniki,
from Bulgarians.
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. 27-1taly declares war on Ger
many; Roumania enters war on side
Df allies.
Aug. 29.-Field Marshal Won linden
)urg made chief of staff of German
lrmies. succeeding Gen. Won Falken-
layn.
Aug. 30-Russian armies seize all
i've passes in Carpathians into Hun
AIRY.
Sept. 31Allies renew offensive north
# Somme; Bulgarian and German
roops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania.
Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians
apture Roumanian fortress of Tutra-
IAN; Roumanians take Orsova, Bull
arian city.
Sept. 1O-German-Bulgarian army
aptures Roumanian fortress of Sill
ria.
Sept. 14-British for first time use
tanks.
Sept. 15--ltalians begin new Often
i've on Carso.
Oct. 2-ROumanian army Of inva- {
ion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans ,
nd Bulgarians under Won Mackensen.
Oct. 4-German submarines sink {
'rench cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner I
'rancOnia.
Oct. 8-German submarines sink six
Merchant steamships off Nantucket,
lass.
Oct 11-Greek seacoast forts dis
lantled and turned over to allies on ,
emand of England and France.
Oct. 23.-German-Bulgar armies cap
Ire Constanza, Roumania.
1917
Jan. 1-Submarine sinks British
anspOrt Ivernia. F.,
Jan. 9-Russian premier, Trepoff, re- !,
gns. Golitzin. succeeds him. {
Jan. 31-Germany announces unre-
ricted submarine warfare. u
Feb. 1President Wilson reviews Z
lbmarine controversy before con- [
'ess; United States sewers diplomatic
lations with Germany; American a
Gamer Housatonic sunk without
Rrning.