The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-01-03
)ATEs OF TEUToN DOWNFALL
ueive- Month Ends With Leaders OF
Victorious Nations Gathered to Set
tie Peace Terms-Other Foreign and
Domestic Occurrences.
COMPILED BY e. w. PlckARD.
THE WORLD WAR

ave river from Zenson loop
Jan. 4-President Wilson presented his
biiway control program to congress.
British hospital ship Rewa torpeooed by |
ermans.
si Jan 6-Premier Lloyd George stated
q Jan. 7-U. s. government began mobili-
lid ton Of 100000 workers.
~. s. Supreme court upheld draft law
Submarine crews mutinied at Kiel. kill |
"a, Is IS officers |
~ Jan 8-President Wilson stated Amer |
wt as war aims and peace demands.
M, Jan. 9-Russia and Bulgaria signed sep |
tate peace.
, general peace and offered Russia sep
ate peace.
Russia and Germany renewed arms
be for month.
q Jan l4-British airmen made big sue
n ssful daylight raid on Karlsruhe.
~. Germans bombarded Yarmouth from
ffe Jan. 15-Daniel Willard resigned as
lad of u. S. war industries board
SCI Jan. 20-In naval action at entrance to
,Sti hrdanelles the British sank Turkish
uiser Breslau and forced the Goeben
toJ Ian. 2l-Britlsh boarding ship Louvain
an nix, ga lost.
ego an..24-Germany and Austria replied to
ne ace proposals of Wilson and Lloyd
Jorge. rejecting the concrete susses-
ut0 ms.
y an 26-Tweve killed by explosion in
1al ewport naval torpedo station.
Id Wpdessa captured by the bolsheviki.
an. H.Russian government broke rela-
ms with Roumania.
couD Italians began offensive between Asiago
ID the Brenta.
6, toumanians took Kishinev
hat8 an. 2S-German air raiders killed Il in
cod Jkrainians defeated bolshevik troops in
and aa aas Saoke I throush Austrian line
mtpting 1900 prisoners.
a 9 Flea. '0-1efn'A" ar 'a'o on fA'S "
Gan sl-Bolshevik took orenburg.
Hfeb. 3-A1led supreme war council de-
hsa lad IN vic
Feb. 4-U S. government took over
tie M<ntrol of oil
bo@sFeb 5-Franz Won Rintelen and six
hers convicted of conspiracy in New
-. FEB. s-United States transport Tus-
ei nia sunk by torpedo off Irish coast 2oi
me americans lost
ID the central powers signed.
&Eeb 10-Russia declared the war at an
egis szSered Complete demobilizaton; but re-
a led to sign peace treaty.
~. Feb. H-Boio Pasha convicted OF trea-
nua In France and sentenced to death.
a Feb. 15-President Wilson put all for
IN trade of L. s. under license
II or Sight British submarine chasers sunk
min German destroyers in Dover straits.
eb Alderman aviators attacked Lon
"a. killing q.
.Efeb. lS-Germans resumed war on Rus
soci crossing the Dvina.
DUCT Feb. l9-Germans took Dvinsk and
-, tsk; Bolsheviki offered to sign peace
nv oIshevik Don Cossack republic organ
20 at Tcherkask. Gen kaledines hav-
npa eeooa t troos T., inves'eo f'eVai ana
oardEf FEB. HLGermans took Minsk and
Jericho captured by the British.
IAN vIeb. 22-Senate passed Wilson bill &c
defefCeb. 23-President issued proclamation
efuS1pulating government guaranteed price
wheat at principal primary markets
Spokane
,sked4 New York.
mHllT1eb 8-Americans repulsed strong at
M wduRk In Chemin des Danes sector witt
~ WY losses to attackers.
% 10 arch 1-McAdoo announced third LIB
N loan to open April 6.
III s. troops repulsed raid IT, Toul sec
r of suffering many casualties: German
aueF ritish cruiser Calgarian torpedoed: 4
re NJ lost.
arch 3-Germans halted invasion o
ufacl ssia Slavs signed peace treaty givini
9 If Arkey big slice of territory.
garch +French delivered surpris
Slnce>w near Verdun. penetrating German
III Ia british French and Italian ambassa
,+or &safeguard allied interests in Siberia.
''e' British advanced l2-mile front Il
ad iudWlestine.
~ arch s-Americans in Lorraine re
the sed German attack and took prisoners
and resident Wilson refused assent to Jap
,unts ernard M. Baruch named chairman O
q of war industries board.
arch 6-Roumania signed preliminar
IN Gu ce treaty giving up Dobrudja and con
darad of the Danube.
u'' arch 7-Germany and Finland signe
arch S..Trotzky resigned as foreg
lister of Russia
effe fitish repulsed attack on Ypres- Dix
, Rafs De line with heavy losses to enemy
even killed. As injured in air raid o
ring Idon.
A arch Shine persons killed in al
ionts Earcn u-sixty airplanes bonnie
was benny aviators attacked Naples Sieve
,,a,ro resident. in message to soviets, plede
hais aid of United States to free Russi
arch i2-Ninety-flve thousand drafte
lobli called to begin movement to car
tion 1nents March .
sitish aviators dropped ton of explos
IS lHiW on Coblentz
funds hrch lS1Germans seized ~ odesss Al.
r the AGbpied trenches in Luneville sectC
which they drove the enemy. fir
dr01k rch l5-Germans repulsed with ieay
~. In Flanders by British.
thiS 80 Russian congress of Soviets at Mo-
n the - ratified German peace terms
=" birch ls-Alied supreme war counC
when Mnemned German. treatment OF Ru
enspS rs and Roumanians and refused
knowledge the peace treaties.
nil Il orch ls-AmertCan destroyer Mamie
> and ded with British war vessel; ls kille
hh" orch 0-America and Great Brita
rs whe I'd 1000 go tons of Dutch shipping
:. an orch H-Germans opened heavy a
H. on British lines north of ST. Quenti
ut exd Arch 2-Great battle in France CO..
I'D. Germans falling to break Britt.
81 both sides sustained heavy Ia Sos
nttsh in Palestine crossed the krda
oieArch 3-British fell back from We
n hn,li 0miles. their lines still unbroke est
80 casualties. German 80 900. ritis
ed SlAsp: French and American roo
,,c I'D Dght up TO support British
ihs iris shelled by new German CUB fro
oppOlDnce of IS miles
..sts Arch S-Germans took Baoauu
mes and Guiscard
rich S-British destroyed entire Tu
near Hit, Aesopotamia
ne f1r rch T-Germans took Albert q
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