The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-01-04
COMPLETE DEFEAT OF CENTRAL
POWERS IN WORLD WAR MARKS
AN EPOCH IN HISTORY.
DATES Of TEUT0N DOWNFALL
f"eive-Month Ends With Leaders Of
Victorious Nations Gathered to Set
sIe Peace Terms-other Foreian and
Domestic Occurrences.
COMPILED BY Z. w. PickARp.~
THE WORLD WAR

Ill WORLD WAR
ian. Italians drove Teutons across
@TaVe RIVER from Zenson loop,
rs;i,.,o |fresldent Wilson presented his
A1t"ay control program to congress
crtlsn hospital ship Rewa torpeuoed by
py Ian; ,sPremier Lloyd George stated
o1 Iaa war aims. '0
zIIlon Of 100000 workers.
-. supreme court upheld draft law
4,e uo % afHns crews mutinled at Kiei. Xiii.
Jan. S-President Wilson stated Amer,
iea war aims and peace demands.
la. San' 1Hussia and Bulgaria signed sep
Jan: 1oICentral powers withdrew offer
o. o1. general peace and offered Russia sep.
.,d Russia ana Germany renewed armis-
Jan. H-British airmen made big sue
eessful daylight raid on Karlsruhe.
Germans bombarded Yarmouth from
Jan. 1s-Daniel Willard resigned as
mead Of U: S. war industries board.
Dardanelles the British sank Turkish
ashore. '"o oo0oei'
ian, Jan z: 2l-British boarding ship Louvain
peace proposals of Wilson and LLOYD
george. rejecting the concrete sugges-
Jan. ze-Twelve killed bv exn,os,or T.,
newport naval torpedo station.
odessa captured by the bolsheviki.
Jan. N-Russian government broke rela-
Mons with Roumania.
Italians began offensive between Asia On
and the Brenta.
Roumanians took Kishinev
ian: 8-German air raiders killed At in
Ukrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
three day battle and took Lutsk.
Italians broke through Austrian line.
taxing 500 prisoners.
Jan ao-German air raid on Paris: ~
Jan. s1-Bolsheviki took Orenbure.
slared war must be carried on to VIC
Feb IT,, s. government took over
Feb. tFranz Won Rintelen and six
others convicted Of conspiracy in New
Feb. eunited States transport rus-
s xa,s sunk by torpedo off Irish coast: 2oA
Feb; s-Peace treaty between Ukraine
and a. the e central tra powers signed:
end 50 far as she vas e con Mae at aa ad
ordered complete Generalization; but re-
r1 Ned to sign Ya, peace treaty;
SON In france and sente 1%it to DEATH N sea
., Feb 1S.President Wilson put all for
siE E;.t trade 1.,t Of U: s; under license:
b. German destroyers in Dover straits.
Feb 1eGerman aviators attacked Lon
don. killing q. >'~0
Feb lsLGermans resumed war on Rus
Feb. l9-Germans took Dvinsk and
Lutsk: Bolsheviki offered to sign peace
Bolshevik. Don Cossack republic organ
iRed at Tcherkask, Gen. Kaledines hav-
ing committed suicide.
,,Ps s ,n Tn Invested Reval and
Feb 21-Germans took Minsk and
Rovno.
S Teri captured blythe British.
Feo. 3Senate passed Wilson bill to
Feb. 23-President issued proclamation
stipulating government guaranteed price
Tor wheat at principal primary markets.
at New York.
Feb. 2s-Germans captured Reval.
ans Tepulssd strong At
heavy losses to attackers.
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
~ . British cruiser Bulgarian torpedoed: 4s
Mari, March 81 %Germans halted invasion Of
Turkey big slice Of territory,
boW near verdnn
lines.
British, French and italian ambassa-
to safeguard allied interests in Siberia 0
British advanced on R-mile front in
Palestine.
March 5-Americans in Lorraine re-
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
troll of the Danube.
peace treaty.
March s..Trotzky resigned as foreign
British advanced three miles on 1s-mile
British repulsed attack on Ypres-Dix-
nude line with heavy losses to enemy.
Eleven killed. As injured in air raid on
March eLNine persons killed in air
Mar M%Ssh :. t 3iMs'1ty aiFp'ane' bombed
Frenzy ayist9sss attacked Naples. Seven
ID aid Of United States to o free Russia
from German control.
March 12-Ninety-five thousand drafted
1 men Sal!eS Ma TO- begin movement to can
British aviators dropped ton of explos
ives on Coblentz.
March 1EGermans seized Odessa.
March l+American Rainbow division
occupied trenches in Luneville sector
from which they drove the enemy; frs
permanent advance by Americans.
March 15-Germans repulsed with heav!
loss in Flanders by British.
All-Russian congress Of soviets at Mos
COW ratified German peace terms.
March 18-Allied supreme war council
condemned German treatment of Rus
SLAMS and Roumanians and refused t.
acknowledge the peace treaties.
March 19-American destroyer Mamie!
oollided with British war vessel; 16 killed
March 20-America and Great Britain
seized 100000 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 five
ten miles, their lines still unbroken; est
mated casualties, German. 100000; British
100000; French and American troop
brought up to support British.
Paris shelled by new German gun froI
distance of rs miles. ~.
March 25-Germans took Bapaums
Nesle and Gufscard. 81
March 26-British DESTROYED entire Tur
March 2-Germans took Albert "a
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