The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-01-02
DATES OF TEUToN DOWNFALL
TweIve.Month Ends With Leaders Of
Victorious Nations Gathered to Set
tie Peace. Terms-other Foreign and
Domestic Occurrences.
COMPLIED BY E. w. PICARD.
THE WORLD WAR

Ad4Wdy contrOl program to congress.
ca nr.lsn hospital ship ReWa 'torpedoed by
ian Jan; premier Lloyd George stated
britain's war aims.
ian: ~ s. government began mobili-
zatlon Of 10000 workers.
-. 5. Supreme court upheld draft law.
submarine crews mutinied at KEEL kill
ing 80 officers $3.50
Jan. S-PreSident Wilson stated AVIAN
lca's war aims and peace demands.
ian. s-Russia and Bulgaria signed sep
Jan. l0-Central powers withdrew offer
OF general peace and offered Russia sep
:, Russia and Germany renewed armis-
tlce for month. 49, .'
Jan. l-British airmen made big suc-
cessfui daylight raid on Karlsruhe.
Germans bombarded Yarmouth from
the sea. o1A'
Jan 15-Daniel Willard resigned "a
head Of U: S. war industries board.
Jan 2o-ln naval action at entrance to
Dardanelles the Britis. sank Turkish
cruiser Breslau and forced the Goeben
Jan, a. 2l-British boarding ship Louvain
Jan: 24-Germany and Austria replied to
lions.
Jan. oc-Twelve killed by explosion in
newport naval torpedo station
Odessa captured by the bolsheviki.
Jan. 2.-,Russlan government broke rela-
tons with Roumania.
Italians began offensive between Asiago
Roumanians took Kishinev
> Jan. 2-German air raiders killed At in
London.
Ukrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk.
Italians broke through Austrian line,
taking 1.500 prisoners.
killed.
Jan! 31-Bolsheviki took Orenburg.
Feb. 3-AlIied supreme war council de-
clared war must be carried on to VIC
Feb. ~. S. government took over
Feb. 5-Franz Won Rintelen and six
others convicted of conspiracy in New
i, Feb. s-United States transport Tus
canla sunk by torpedo off Irish coast; 2o4
Feb, s-Peace treaty between Ukraine
and the. central powers signed.
Feb 1o.Rus ia declared the war at an
end SO far as she was concerned and
fused to sign peace treaty,
FEB A-Bolo Pasha convicted of trea-
son in France and sentenced to. death:
eign trade Of U. S. under license.
Eight British submarine chasers sunk
by German destroyers in Dover straits.
rep. 1S-German aviators attacked Lon
Feb. 1s-Germans resumed war on Rus
STA, crossing the Dvina.
Feb. 19-Germans took Dvnsl1 and
treaty. -
Bolshevik. DON Cossack republic organ
i iz at E Zen Cen Kaledines hav-
Feb 20-Germans invested Reval and
landed troops in Finland. @
Feb. 21-taermans took Minsk and
Jericho captured by the British.
Feb. 22-Senate passed Wilson bill to
rule railroads. I-
Feb. 23-President issued proclamation
stipulating government guaranteed price
for wheat at principal primary markets,
prices varying from 81 at Spokane to $2.2s
at New York.
Feb. 25-Germans captured Reval.
Feb. 2S-Americans repulsed strong at
tack in Chemin des Danes sector with
March 1' 1SMcA a ' announced third Lib
erty loan to open April 6. :
U. S. troops repulsed raid in Toul sec
tor, suffering many casualties; German
British cruiser Bulgarian torpedoed; 4s
lives lost. r. ~
March s-Germans halted invasion of
Turkey big slice Of territory,
blow near Verdun, penetrating German
lines
" British French and italian ambassa-
doris asked Japan to take necessary steps
to safeguard allied interests in Siberia.
: bElISH duVdlCeu Oh lI-Hulle IfOHC III
March 5-Americans 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
peace treaty giving up Dobrudja and con-
troll of the Danube.
March Germany and Finland signed
March sG;Trotzky resigned as foreign
minister of Russia. '' Fl
British advanced three miles on 1S-mile
front in Palestine:
British repulsed attack on Ypres-Dix-
nude line with heavy losses to enemy.
Eleven killed. 46 injured in air raid on
March s-Nine persons killed in air
3March il-sixty airplanes bombed
I'aris: "a killed.
s EsSIy s sS{at3sf attacked Naples Seven
President, in message to Soviets, pledg-
ed aid of United States to free Russia
March 12-Ninety-five THOUSAND drafted
men called to begin movement to can
tonments March 49,
British aviatOrs dropped ton of eXplos-s
March 13-Germans seized Odessa.
March 14-American Rainbow division
from which they drove the enemy; first
permanent advance by Americans.
March 15-Germans repulsed with heavy
loss in Flanders by British.
All-Russian congress of Soviets at Mos
COW ratified German peace terms.
March 1S-Allied supreme war council
condemned German, treatment of Rus
slams and Roumanians and refused to
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March lsEA nn;t1 destroyer Marley
March 2o-America and Great Britain
seized 1,Ooo,0 600 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-
tinued, Germans failing to break British
line; both sides sustained heavy losses.
British in Palestine crossed the Jordan
& March 23-British fell back from Eve to
ten miles. their lines still unbroken: esti-
mated casualties, German. 100000; British,
brought UP to support British
Paris s!lelled by new German gun from
distance Of IS miles.
March 25-Germans took Bapaume,
;Nesle and Gniscard.
March 2G-British destroyed entire Turk
army near Hit, Mesopotamia.
March 27-Germans took Albert and
j ~ Il