The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-21
ceeds Sir John French as chief Of
English armies on west front.


1910
Jan. S-Brltish troops at Kut-el-
Anara surrounded.
Jan. 9-Brltlsh evacuate Galllpoli
peninsula.
Jan. 13-Austrlans capture Cetlnje,
capital Of Montenegro.
Jan. 23-Scutar, capital OF Albania,
captured by Austrlans.
Feb. 22-Crown princes army begins
attack on Verdun.
March S-Germany declares war on
Portugal.
March 15-Austrla-Hu Hungary declares
war on Portugal.
March 24-Steamer Sussex torpedocd
and sunk.
April 1S-Presldent Wilson sends
note to Germany.
April 10-President Wilson speaks TO
congress, explaining diplomatic sltua.
tlon.
April 24-Insurrectlon in Dublin.
April 29-BrltIsh troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrender to Turks.
April 30-lrlsh revolution sup
pressed.
May 3-IrIsh leaders Of insurrection
executed.
May 4-Germany makes promise to
change methods of submarine warfare.
May 13-Austrlans begin great often
slye against Italians In TrentinO.
May 3l-Great naval battle Off Dan
lsh coast.
June 5-Lord Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire.
June 11--liussians capture Dubno.
June 29-Slr Roger Easement SEN
fenced to be hanged for treason.
July British and French begin
great offensive on the Somme.
July G--Davld Lloyd George appoint
ed secretary OF war.
July 0-German merchant submarine
Deutschland arrives at Baltimore.
July 23-General Kuropatkin's army
wins battle near Riga.
July 27-Engllsh take Delville wood
Serbian forces begin attack on Bull
gars in Macedonia.
Aug. 2-I'rench take Fleury.
Aug. 3-SIr Roger Easement execut-
ed for treason.
Aug. 4-French recapture Thlau-
mont for fourth time; British repulse
igl NJ
Aug. Italians on IsonzO front cap
tire Monte Sabotino and Monte San
NJ chcle.
Aug S-iurks force Russian evacu-
alton OF Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. 9-Italans cross Isonzo river
and occupy Austrian city Of Goeritz.
Aug. l0-Austrians evacuate Stanis
lau; allies take Doiran, near Salonlki,
from Bulgarians.
Aug. 19-German submarines sink
British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth.
Aug. 24-French occupy Maurepas,
north Of the Somme; RussiOns 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 Hinden-
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-Allles renew offensive north
of Somme; Bulgarian and German
troops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania.
Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians
capture ROumanlan fortress Of Tutra-
kan; Roumanians take Orsova, Bull
garlan city.
Sept. 10-German-Bulgarian army
captures ROumanlan fortress Of Sill
trla.
Sept. 14-British for first time use
tanks"
Sept. 15-Italians begin new often
slve on Carso.
oct. 2-Roumanlan army Of inva-
sion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans
and Bulgarians under Won Mackensen.
Oct. 4-German submarines sink
French cruiser Gallla and Cunard liner
FrancOnia.
Oct. Sherman 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, Roumanla.