Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-01-03
COMPLETE DEFEAT OF CENTRAL
POWERS IN WORLD WAR MARKS
AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.
DATES OF TEUT0N DOWNFALL
u WeIve-Month Ends With Leaders Of
Victorious Nations Gathered to Set
tie Peace Terms-other FOREIGN and
Domestic Occurrences.
COMPILED BY e. W. PlckARD.
TIE WORLD WAR

Dian; San Italians drove Teutons across
I've RIVER from ZensOn LOOP
,a;iu n 4President Wilson presented his
sanWay control program to Congress
british hospital ship Rewa torpedoed by
Germans.
n! Ian; 6Premier Lloyd George stated
o1talns war aims.
Ian ian: ~. 8. government began mobili-
s9Hlon OF 100000 workers.
S,,,, o. sopreme court upheld draft law.
ms u3 p afne crews mutinied at Kiel, kill
Jan. 8-President Wilson stated Amer
cas war aims and peace demands.
la: Lar SRussia and Bulgaria signed sep
Jan: M-.Central powers withdrew offer
o. sr. general peace and offered Russia sep
,,c R''; ,a1 , and Germany renewed armis-
Jan. l-British airmen made big sue.
eessful daylight raid on Karlsruhe.
Germans bombarded Yarmouth from
Jan. l6-Daniel Willard resigned al
"eaa OF y; S: war industries board.
n ian: n I'm naval action at entrance to
0ardanelles the British sank Turkish
cruiser Breslau and forced the Goeben
Jan =; sa1 'st boarding ship Louvain
Jan. 4-Germany and Austria replied to
peace proposals of Wilson and Iioyd
George. rejecting the concrete sugges-
Jan. 26-Twelve killed by explosion in
newport naval torpedo station.
G Is.e q captured by the bolsheviki.
tons with Roumania.
Italians began offensive between Asiago
and the Brenta.
Roumanians took Kishinev
Jan. fisherman air raiders killed AZ In
London
Ukrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk.
Italians broke through Austrian line,
Jan: 30-German air raid on Paris; 40
Jan. 31-Bolsheviki took Orenburr
Feb: 3-Allied supreme war council de-
Slared war must be carried on to vic
Feb 4-U. 8. government took over
Feb. 5-Franz Won Rintelen and six
others convicted of conspiracy in New
Feb. s-United States transport Tus-
cania sunk by torpedo off Irish coast; oo4
Feb. @Peace treaty between Ukraine
and the central powers signed.
Feb. M-Russia declared the war at an
end SO far as she was concerned and
Feb; M M-5 Pasha convicted Of trea-
son eh In Frapce and se1tHnced to DEATH
Eight British submarine chasers sunk
by German destroyers in Dover straits.
AZ FEB lifts; 1SnGe =, aviators attacked Lon
FEB is Germans resumed war on rus
ria. crossing the Dvina.
Lutsk; Bolsheviki. offered to sign peace
Boisheyik Don cossack republic organ
ked at Tcherkask. Gen. Kaledines hav-
Feb 9eNGermans invested Reval and
banded troops in Finland.
Feb s1-Germans took Minsk and
Jericho captured by the British.
Feb &senate passed Wilson bill to
Feb. 23tPresident issued proclamation
etipulating government guaranteed price
Tor wheat at principal primary markets,
PRICES varying from 81 at Spokane to $2.2s
Feb 2s-Germans captured Reval
Feb 2SGAmericans repulsed strong At
tack in Chemin des Danes sector with
heavy losses to attackers.
March 1-McAdoo announced third Lib
erty loan to open April 6.
tor suerns many easaaities e asS
British cruiser calgarian torpedoed; 4s
Russia; slavs signed peace treaty giving
Turkey big slice Of territory,
March +Frencn delivered surprise
British, French and Italian ambassa-
70 Safeguard f; allied interests in Siberia @
British advanced on 12-mile front in
Palestine.
pulsed German attack and took prisoners.
President Wilson refused assent to JAP
anese Intervention in Russia.
Bernard M. Baruch named chairman of
NE war industries board
March 6-Roumania signed preliminary
peace treaty giving up Dobrudja and con-
~ %a 1c ~" EGermany and Finland signed
March s@@Trotzky resigned as foreign
Rrifish advanced three miles on 1S-mile
Sq,ti n r 9epused attack on YpresD1-
nude line With heavy ,T,r Losses 10 D., enemy eaag
March szNine persons killed in air
8arsh MSsixty airplanes bombed
Enemy ayiatorss attacked Naples Seven
Killed IN aos {n messase to soviets pleds
ed aid Of United States to free Russia
nom German control.
March 2-Ninety-1ve thousand drafted
men called to begin movement TO can
tonments March q:
ives on Coblentz o..s.
MAfCn lS-l1cT1llAHS SClAOA oUSss:
March l4-American Rainbow, division
occupied trenches in Luneville sector
from which they drove the enemy; hrs'
permanent advance by Americans
March l5-Germans repulsed with heavy
loss in Flanders by British. H..
All-Russian congress of soviets at Mos
March 18-Alled supreme war council
condemned German treatment of Rus
slams and Roumanians and refused to
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March 19-American DESTROYER Nanley
oollided with British war vessel; IS killed
March 20-America and Great Britain
seized 100000 tons of Dutch Shipping.
March ;1.Ge,mans opened heavy at
March 22-Great battle In France con
>inued, Germans failing to break British
Hhe: both sides sustained heavy losses.
British in Palestine crossed the Jordan
March 23-British fell back from Ave t.
ten miles, their lines still unbroken; est
.sated casualties. German: $4,000; British
brought up to support British.
Paris shelled by new German gun from
distance of Is miles. ,
March %-Germans took Bapanme
Garch @-British DESTROYED entire Tur1