Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-02
THE WORLD WAR

rails. rresioent Wilson presented his
away control program to congress.
srtish hospital ship Rewa torpeooed by
Jan; @Premier Lloyd George stated
0ritain's war aims.
Jan ~. s. government began mohili-
Eation Of $780, 90 workers, w
So. supreme court upheld draft law.
ing So officers. 49,
Jan. EPresident Wilson stated Amer
tca's war aims and peace demands.
erate peace.
Jan. N-Central powers withdrew offer
o. general peace and offered Russia sep
Russia and Germany renewed armis-
nce for month.
jan: lmBritish airmen made big sue
ceSsrul daylight raid on Karlsruhe,
the sea.
Jan. 15-Daniel Willard resigned as
mead of U. S.. war industries board.
Jan. 20-In naval action at entrance 10
OaIdanelIes the British sank Turkish
cruiser Breslau and forced the Goeben
Jan. 21-British boarding shin Iouvain
sunk; 224 lost.
al 24-Germany and Austria replied to
peace proposals of Wilson and Lloyd
George, rejecting the concrete sugges-
Jan. 26-Twelve killed by explosion in
newport naval torpedo station.
odessa captured by the bolsheviki.
jan ELRussian government broke rela-
lions with Roumania.
Italians began offensive between Asiago
and the Brenta.
Roumanians took Kishinev.
London.
Ukrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk.
Italians broke through Austrian line,
taking l,5W prisoners.
Jan, 3O-German air raid on Paris; 40
Jan. 31-Bolsheviki took Orenburg.
Feb. 3-Allied supreme war council de-
clared war must be carried on to vic
tory.
Feb. EU. S. government took over
control of oil.
Feb. 5-Franz Won Rintelen and six
others convicted Of conspiracy in New
nnXork.
FEB. s-Unlted States transport Tus-
8eAspa.sunk by torpedo off Irish coast; 204
Feb 9Peace treaty between Ukraine
and fhe central powers signed.
FEB. 1O-Russia declared the war at an
end so far as she was concerned and
ordered complete rehabilitation; but re-
fused to sign peace treaty.
Feb. l4-Bolo Pasha convicted of trea-
son in France and sentenced to death.
eign trade of y. $. under license.
Eight British submarine chasers sunk
by German destroyers in Dover straits.
req. lh-ItTUldH dNldlOTS alIaCkeQ Lon
don, killing q.
Feb. 1S-Germans resumed war on Rus
sia. crossing the Dvina.
Feb. 19-Germans took Dvinsk and
Lutsk; Bolsheviki offered to sign peace
treaty.
Bolshevik Don Cossack republic organ
lied at Tcherkask. Gen. Kaledines hav-
Inc committed suicide.
Feb. 20-Germans invested Reval and
landed troops in Finland.
Feb. 21-Germans took Minsk and
Rovno.
Jericho captured by the British.
Feb. 22-Senate passed Wilson bill TO
rule railroads.
Feb. 23-President issded proclamation
hipulating government guaranteed price
prices varying from 81 at Spokane to 81. 2S
at New York.
Feb. 25-Germans captured Reval.
Feb. 2S-Americans repulsed strong at
tack in Chemin des Danes sector with
7heavy losses to attackers.
March 1-McAdoo announced third Lib
erty loan to Vel April 6.
u. s. troops repulsed raid in Toul sec
tor. suffering many casualties; German
losses very heavy.
British cruiser Calgarian torpedoed; As
lives lost.
March s-Germans halted invasion of
Russia; Slavs signed peace treaty giving
Turkey big slice Of territory.
March 4French delivered surprise
blow near Verdun. penetrating German
lines.
British. French and italian ambassa-
doris asked Japan to take necessary steps
to safeguard allied interests in Siberia.
British advanced on 12-mile front in
Palestine.
March 5-Amaricans in Lorraine re-
pulsed German attack and took prisoners.
President Wilson refused assent to Jap
anese Intervention in Russia.
Bernard M. Baruch named chairman Of
the war industries board.
March 6--Roumania signed preliminary
uAoaa fNanfx- giving I'M nnhTl1dia md ann-
troll of the Danube.
March 7-Gerinany and Finland signed
peace treaty.
March S-Trotzky resigned as foreign
minister of Russia.
British advanced three miles on 1S-mile
front in Palestine,
British repulsed attack on Ypres-Dix-
rnude line with heavy losses to enemy.
Eleven killed. 40 Injured in air raid on
SSnGpn.
Mar s-Nine persons killed in air
March 2Ssixty airpianes bombed
Paris: "a kind.
Enemy ayiat.Ss attacked Naples. Seven
Killed in hospital.
ed aid Of United States to free Russia
from German control.
March l2-Ninety-ive thousand drafted
men called to begin movement to can
comments March 70
British a~vlators dropped ton OF explos-
ives on Coblentz.
~ March l3-1fefmdne SelZeU OQeSSa.
March l4-American Rainbow division
occupied trenches in Luneville sector
from which they drove the enemy; first
~permanent advance by Americans.
March h-Germans repulsed with heavy
loss IN F1anders by British.
AIl-Ruasian congress of Soviets at Mos
COW ratified German peace terms.
March lS-Al1fed supreme wal council
condemned German treatment Of Rus
SLAMS and Roumanians and refused 10
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March 19EAmerican destroyer Manley
coliided with British war vessel; 16 killed.
March 20-America and Great Britain
seized 1000, 600 tons of Dutch shipping.
March 21-Germans opened heavy at
tack on British lines north of st. Quentin.
March 22-Great battle In France con-
finued, Germans falling to break British
line: both sides sustained heavy losses.
British in Palestine crossed the Jordan.
March 23-British fell back from Ave to
ZEN miles. their lines still unbroken: esti-
mated casualties, German. $4,000: British,
10000: French and American troops
brought ur to support British.
Paris f1icfied by new German gun from
distance of 76 miles.
March as-Germans took Bnpaume,
Eeni1 end Gniscnrd.
March cg-nritish destroyed entire Turk
prlny near lit. Mesopotamfa
March 2s-Gcrmans took Albert and