River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-02
THE WORLD WAR


Piave river from Zenson loop.
Jan. 4-President Wilson presented his
railway control program to congress.
British hospital ship Rewa torpeooed by
Germans.
Jan. 5-Premier Lloyd George stated
B-itain's war aims.
Jan. ii. S. government began mobili-
zaticn of 100000 workers
Y. s. Supreme court upheld draft law
submarine crews mutinied at Kiel, kill
ing 80 officers.
Jan. 8-President Wilson stated Amer
ica's war aims and peace demands.
Jan. 9-Russia and Bulgaria signed sep
arate peace.
Jan. 1O-CentraI powers withdrew offer
arate peace.
Russia and Germany renewed armis-
tice for month
Jan. 14-British airmen made big sue
cessful daylight raid on Karlsruhe.
Germans Lombarded Yarmouth from
the sea.
head of y. S. war industries board.
Jan. 20-In naval action at entrance to
Dardanelles the British sank Turkish
cruiser Breslau and forced the Goeben
Jan. 21-British boarding ship Louvain
peace proposals of Wilson and, Lloyd
George, rejecting the concrete sugges-
tions.
Jan. 26-Twelve killed by explosion in
Newport naval torpedo station.
Odessa captured by the bolsheviki.
Jan. 27-Russian government broke rela-
tons with Roumania.
Italians began offensive between Asiago
and the Brenta
Roumanians took Kishinev
Jan. 2S-German air raiders killed AZ in
London.
Ukrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk.
Italians broke through Austrian line,
taking 1900 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 to vic
tory
Feb. ~. s. government took over
Feb. 5-Franz Won Rintelen and six
others convicted of conspiracy in New
York.
Feb. 6-United States transport Tus-
cania sunk by torpedo off Irish coast 2O4
Americans lost.
Feb. S-Peace treaty between Ukraine
and the central powers signed.
Feb 10-RuSSa declared the war at an
end so far as she was concerned and
ordered complete demobilization; but re-
fused to sign peace treaty
Feb 14-Bolo Pasha convicted of trea-
son in France and sentenced to death.
Feb. 15-President Wilson put all for
eign trade of U. s. under license.
Eight British submarine chasers sunk
by German destroyers in Dover straits.
Feb 16-German aviators attacked Lon
don, killing q.
Feb. 18-Germans resumed war on Rus
STA, crossing the Dvina.
Feb. 19-Germans took Dvinsk and
Lutsk; Bolsheviki offered to sign peace
tire lty.
43olshevik Don Cossack republic organ
lied at Tcherkask. Gen. Kaledines hav-
ing committed suicide.
Feb. 20-Germans invested Reval and
landed troops in Finland.
FEB. 21-Germans took Minsk and
Jericho captured by the British
Feb. @-Senate PASSED Wilson bill to
rule railroads.
Feb. 2S-President issued proclamation
STIMULATING government guaranteed price
for wheat at principal primary markets,
prices varying from 81 at Spokane to 1928
Feb. 25-Germans captured Reval.
Feb 2S.r-Americans repulsed strong at
tack in Chemin des Danes sector with
March 1-McAdoo announced third Lib
erty loan to open April s.
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 4-French delivered surprise
blow near Verdun, penetrating German
lines.
British, French and italian ambassa-
to safeguard allied interests in Siberia. p'
British advanced on 12-mile front in
Palestine.
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
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-
Nude line with heavy losses to enemy.
Eleven killed. As injured in air raid on
March Shine persons killed in air
March ii~sixty airplanes bombed
Paris; 81 killed.
Enemy aviatorss attacked Naples. Seven
President. in message to Soviets, pledg-
ed aid of United States to free Russia
from German control. -
March 12-Ninety-fve thousand drafted
men called to begin movement to can
tonments March 90,
British aviatorS dropped ton or eXploS-
March 1S-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-Alled supreme war council
condemned German treatment of Rus
SLAMS snd Roumanians and refused tc
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March 19-American destroyer Manley
collideG with British war vessel; is killed
March 20-America and Great Britain
seized leo, 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 2S-British fell back from five t
ten miles their lines still unbroken; esti
mated casualties German 100000; British
100000: French and American troop.
brought up to support British
Paris shelled by new German gun from
distance of rs miles.
March 5-GermanS took Bapaume
Nesle and Guiscard
March 26-British destroyed entire Turl
army near Hit. Mesopotamia-
March 27-Germans took Albert anC