Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-23

DeCeHDef IL, HermhnN anu her hlle
propose peace.
December ID, Entente Allies demant
reparation. restitution and security TO
the future.
December 21. President Wilson tell
Europe America has been brought t.
the verge of war and demands peac
terms ns basis for future conduct.
1917
January %. President Wilson tell
Senate peace without victory necessar.
il United States enters league to enforc
peace
February l. Germany declares L boa
blockade and says that all neutral ship
entering defined zones will be sunk with
out warning.
February =. the United States severed
Diplomatic relations with Germany
Federal officers seize German linei
Kronprinzessin CeCile. American steam
shin Housatonic sunk near SCilly Islands
by submarine.
February &c, President Wilson asks
Congress for authority to use nrnet
forces to protect American rights nnC
shipping Cunard liner Laconia tor
pcdocd and three Americans killed.
German Plot to Involve Mexico
March /. State Department reveals
German plot TO induce Mexico ant
Japan to invade the United States.
March I. the President decides tc
arm merchant ships in spite of Con
grcss' refusal to approve.
March -. President Wilson notifies
nations armed guard will protect
American ships.
March IA, American steamship AL
gOnquin torpedoed without warning
Russian revolution announced in Pctro
grad Car dethroned
America Enters the War
April .. President Wilson calls OF
Congress to declare n state of war with
Germany.
April 4. Senate votes for war. 50 to 6
April 6. House adopts war rcsolu
ton. 313 to so, and President Wilson
issues proclamation of war with Ger
many. German ships in American port,
seized.
April Q, Austria severed diplomat,
relations with the United States.
April 10, munitions works at Eddy
stone, Pa. explode, causing 100 deaths
April "a, French mission. with Mar
shal Joffre, lands in the United States
May IL. President Wilson name
American commission. headed by Elihr
Root, to Russia
May II, first American Liberty Loar
for $4,000, 900, 900 started.
May IS. National Guard called int,
federal service to mobilize July 10. Tn
President signs the draft bill calm,
into service men from twenty one f.
thirty years
June .. registration for the draf
takes place.
PershiDg in France
June s, Major General John J, Per
shing, American commander, reacbe
England
June IS. General rershing arrives il
Paris.
June a. first Liberty Loan oversub
scribcd.
June 26, first American troops arriy
in France.
July 13, first draft of GS7 900 me
called to colors.
August Il. Pope Benedict propose
peace.
= August 20. President Wilson tells tn
Pope no peace can be signed with tn
= present German Government.
= September Z. German airmen bonn
American hospitals in France. KILN
three persons.
n September 10. first American drafte
men start for camp.
: September 1G, Kerensky declare
Russian republic.
t October /, second Liberty Loan driy
for $1,000, 900, 900 begun.
, October 10, sedition and arson swee
the United States and there are numcr
Gus fires and explosions in war indus
tries.
g First American Shot Fired
October 27, first American shot fire
at Germans by an artilleryman.
October IS, Americans CAPTURE the
{ first war prisoner.
October 30. Italian army in full re
treat.
II November l. British capture Beer
sheba, Palestine. Kerensky announc,
that Russia is tired of war, and thu
the Allies must assume the burden.
November B. first Americans take
= prisoner by Germans.
November I, British capture Gaz
Palestine.
II November s. Kcrensky deposed.
a BOIshevist Russia Quits
e November 10. Lenine announced
y premier of Russia by BolsheviR
Trotzky, foreign minister. Bolshevi
IS demand immediate peace.
November "a. Bolshevik begin pea,
n negotiations with central powers.
December 4. President Wilson asser
'e Prussian military masters must
crushed and asks Congress to declal
If war on Austria.
e December 3, Rumania forced to az
I'D cept q German peace.
p December 2S, American Governmel
% takes over the railroads.
January $. President Wilson stat
'' war aims.
"COalless Days" Begin
January II. Harry A. Garfield fu
administrator. orders all factories eN
:, cept war plants closed for five day
- and all mercantile establishments
close on eleven successive Mondays.
January 10. American troops tai