Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-01-01

SoMPLETE DEFEAT OF CENTRAL
y POWERS IN WoRLpwAR MARKS
AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.
DATES OF TEUT0N DOWNFALL
"e'Ve-Month Ends With Leaders of
VICTORIOUS Nations Gathered to Set
tie reace Terms-other Foreign and
domestic Occurrences,
COMPILED BY E. w. PlckARD
THE WORLD WAR

THE WORLD WAR
pi Plan, Italians drove Teutons across
fae RIVER from ZensOn loop
Ian. 4-President Wilson presented hie
AWAY control program to congress-.
Ga nrsish hospital ship Rewa torpedoed by
R1 Ran 5-Premier Lloyd George stated
0Iltalns war aims
zatinn 80. - 81 s. government began mobili
OF "'oOo,OOO workers.
S1h y, supreme court upheld draft law.
ino % aflne crews mutinied at kiel, kill
IAN. S-President Wilson stated Amer
80 VA aims and peace demands
pt' - smhuss1a and Bulgaria signed sep
-FerY 3: 1o-Central powers withdrew offer
h5ri te era peace and offered Russia sep
~ Rus ssh and Germany renewed armis-
cs jan n, 14IBritish airmen made big sue
tessIul daylight raid on KARLSRUHE
the sea. 1ioii'
Jan. 15-Daniel Willard resigned "a
Head OF Y. 5. war industries board
Jan. 20-In naval action at entrance to
Dardanelles the British sank Turkish
e esbHtr Breslau and forced the Goeben
s,, yan: %? 2-British boarding ship Louvain
Jan. 2-Germany and Austria replied to
peace proposals of Wilson and Lloyd
george, rejecting the concrete SUCCESS
Jan. 2s-Twelve killed by explosion IN
HeWport naval torpedo station
G 1sn sa G2 2 by the bolsheviki.
u0ns with foumania.
Italians began offensive between Asia 90
and the Rrenta
Roumanans look Kishinev.
London N''0u - !"
.Ckrainians defeated boshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk
Italians broke through Austrian line,
taking 1s5ooO, prisoners. ''''
,; I'm 3o-German air raid on Paris; 40
Jan. 31-Rolsheviki took Orenburg.
,feo; 5-Allled supreme war council de-
tlared war must be carried on to vic
En- ~. S. government took over
co Fth Of oil OIL: 49, Wv n:
York 0"
Feb. 6,United States transport Tus-
cania sunk by torpedo off Irish coast; 2O4
FEB: s-Peaee, treaty between Ukraine
Feb. 1o-Russia declared the war at an
end SO far as she was concerned and
ordered complete rehabilitation; but re-
1uSed to sign peace treaty.
SOP FL In Era peea and sentenced to- death:
eign trade Of U. S. under license
Eight British submarine chasers sunk
by German destroyers in Dover straits.
don eI k,l lImee r. aviators attacked Lon
Feb A isnGe Fl resumed war on Rus
s' feb crossing igmGe the Dvtn Took nvna
Lutsk; Bolsheviki offered to sign peace
Ba olshievik Don cossack republic orean-
ICED at TcheEkask., Gen Kaledines hav-
ing committed suicide.
a Rs eqoSns M n1 RysIted Reva' and
Feb. 21-Germans took k1insk and
Jericho car ,red by the British.
Feb. SsPresldent issued proclamation
for wheat at principal primary markets K. d
PRICES varying from 81 at Spokane to $2.2S
at New York.
Feb. 25-Germans captured Reval
Feb. 28-Americans repulSed strong at
tack in Chemin des Danes sector with
March 1-MoAdoo announced third Lib
erty loan to open April 6.
u. s. troops repulsed raid in Toul Sec
British et cruiser saV Bulgarian torpedoed: 4s
\ March EGermans halted invasion Of
MsSsh big 7ss af aeivsFsd
blow near verdun, penetrating German
British, French and italian ambassa-
doris asked Japan to take necessary steps
British advanced on R-mile front in
March bAmericans in Lorraine re-
>ulsed German attack and took prisoners
President Wilson refused assent to jap
Bernard NJ Baru6h named chairman Of
ne war industries board.
}, peace a5i Treaty giving up pobTud}a and con-.
March 7-Germany and Finland signed
!. March sETrotzky resigned as foreign
minister of Russia.
British advanced three miles on 18-mile
fr 8rit 81 repulsed attack on YpresD,x
nude line With 18th heavy ,e losses 3; to enemy.
! March s.Nine persons killed in air
March lll-sixty alrplanes bombed
Enemy ayiaa ttf9rss attacked Naples. Seven
President, in message to soviets. .pledg-
ed aid Of United States to free Russia
March 12~Ninety- five thousand drafted
comments March 49, ,onos .o -. .,o.
- March 1aNGermans seized Odessa.
4 "07arch 1+American Rainbow, division
II lpied trenches in Luneville sector
H n which they drove the enemy; first
/ smanentt sayanss by .n AmeEic a'3S ,..
loss in Flanders by British.
All-Russian congress Of sov1ets at Mos
COW ratified German peace terms.
March 1S-Allied supreme war council
condemned German. treatment of Rus
sfans and Roumanians and refused to
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March 1s-Ameriean DESTROYER Manley
March aEAmerica and Great Britain
seized 100000 tons of Dutch shipping.
ta Maf on British lines north Of St. Quentin
March 22-Great battle In France con.
+,n,1eH Germans failing to break British
siasg SUSTAINED heaHy
March a3LBritish fell back from Ave t.
miles Their lines stu 9 19a Gd R, est
1oo a neo Trench ana American troop.
bronght up to support British.
Paris shelled by new German gun from
distance Of rs miles.
March. Germans took Bapaume
Wareh %-British destroyed entire Turl
army near Hit, Mesopotamia.
March 1-GermanB took Albert IN