East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-01-01

4
Aviation advanced more than 4
+ in any previous year.
> +% - + 1
% Jan. 5.--President Wilson
names fourteen points necessary Il
peace in speech before congress.
CD Feb. British transport
Tuscanla torpedoed and sunk off
Irish coast by German submarine
40 American soldiers lost.
(3) March Russian bolsheviks
sign Brest Litovsk treaty, giving up
one-quarter of European Russia to
Germany.
H) March 4-Rumania surren-
deIs to Germany.
90 March 21-Germans start
Spring offensive" on Western Front.
aiming to capture Paris and channel
ports.
90 Mar. 23-"Mystery guns of
Germans begins shelling Paris from
distance of "a miles.
90 April 12-Marshal Haig, to
British troops in Flanders: I'VE are
| fighting with our backs to the wall"
go April 20--Americans defeat
Germans at Seicheprey
90 May 4-Third American Lib
erty Loan oversubscribed.
G0) May 5-Austrians start drive
on italy"
G1) May 15-Air mail service
starts between New York and Wash
lngton.
U2) May 29--Americans capture
Cantigny.
GS) juno 3-Five German sub
marines attack shipping on L. s.
Atlantic coast.
U4) June 11-American Marines
defeat Germans at Belleau Wood.
G5D June 12-AiT mail starts be-
tween London and Paris.
G6) June 17-Italians. British
and French defeat Austrians on Piave
river in first OF a series Of battles.
40 June 2G-"Flu'' attacks Ger
man army in France.
Gs) July Canadian hospital
ship Llandovery Castle sunk off Irish
coast by German submarine; PA lives
lost.
G9) July American yards
launch 81 ships.
C20) July 6-Austrians defeated in /
Albania.
(2D July Fixing and Queen of
Belgium travel by airplane, London to
France.
C22) July 1s-Foch launches en- /
tente ally and American offensive
against Germans in France.
(2S) July 2O-Germans retreat
across Marne river
T,s1yr nd
French capture Chateau Thierry.
(25) July 25-Revolt in Prague.
Bohemia.
(26) July 29-Inter-allied food
council formed in London.
(2O Aug. S-British attack Ger
mans in Picardy.
(2S) Aug. 9-Riots in Japan due to
high cost of rice.
(29) Sept. 1--"Wheatless days"
end in United States
(30) Sept 12--Americans defeat
Germans at st. Mihiel.
(3D Sept 12-Thirteen millions,
1S,to 20 and 32/to 46, register in the
United States for military service.
(32) Sept. 3O-Bulgaria surrenders
to allies.
(33) oct 1s-Prague Czecho-slo-
walks declare independence.
(SD oct. 2O-Fourth American
Liberty Loan oversubcribed.
$3.50 oct. 27-Germany appeals to
Wilson for peace
(36) Oct. 2S-Austria asks sepa.
rate peace.
$50 October S1.-Turkev uncondi-
tionally surrenders to allies
mistice amounting to unconditional
surrender.
(39) Nov 4-Republican party re-
gains control of Congress.
40) Nov. 4--William Hohenzoll-
ern abdlcates German throne. Flees
to Holland.
ND Nov. 9-Elhert Socialist gov
ernment formed in Germany.
42) Nov. 11-Officially announc-
ed in Washington that Germany ac-
cepts armistice amounting to complete
4S) Nov. 12-Karl Hapsburg alb
dicates Austrian throne
Gp Nov. 21.German high seas .
fleet surrcnders to British Admiral
Beatty. Taken To Firth of Forth for
H5) Nov. 2e-Belsian King and
Queen re-enter Brussels.
(46) Dec. 4-Presidcnt Wilson and .
American peace delegates sail from
New York for Franco. to attend peace .
conference to he held in Versailles in
January.
C40 Dec. 7-"Britain Day cele-
brated, for first time i'm United States,
t4S) Dec. 1S-prcSidcnt Wilson