The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-11-29

Jan. S-British troops at Kut-el-
Amafa surrounded.
Jan. o-British evacuate Gallipoli
peninsula.
Jan. 13-AustrIans capture CetlnJe.
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-Austrla-H Hungary declares
war on Portugal.
March 24-Steamer Sussex torpedoed
and sunk.
April lS-PresIdent Wilson sends
note 90 Germany.
April 19--President Wilson speaks 10
congress, explaining diplomatic situa-
ton.
April 24-Insurrectlon In Dublin.
April 29-Brltlsh troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrender To Turks.
April 30-Irish revolution sup
pressed.
May 3-Irish leaders of instruction
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
gars 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. 9@Italians cross IsOnZo river
and occupy Austrian city of Goeritz.
Aug. 1O-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-Italy declares war on Ger
many; Roumania enters war on side
of allies.
Aug. 29.-Field Marshal Won linden
burg made chief IF staff of German
armies, succeeding Gen. Won Falken-
hayn.
Aug. 3O-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; Roumaniaus take Orsova, Bull
garian city.
Sept. O-German-Bu army
captures Roumanian fortress Of Sill
trfa.
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. 4-German submarines sink
French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner
Franconia.
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. 23.-German-Bulgar armies cap
ture Constanza, ROumania.
1917
Jan. 1-Submarine sinks British
transport Ivernia.
Jan. 9-Russian premier, Trepoff, re-
signs. GolitZin succeeds him.
Jan. 31-Germany announces unre-
stricted submarine warfare.