SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1916.
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Chronological Review
Classified bv
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MEXICAN AFFAIRS. I'
: - , JANUARY.
T. Carraoxa'B forces defeated Villa's
troons at Pueblo; Villa loat 700 killed.
17. Gen. Roque Gonzales Garza chosen
provisional president of Mexico by tbs
convention at Mexico City.
27. Provisional President Garza and his
' cabinet abandoned Mexico City as a
, capital.
X. Mexican First Chief Qarranza reoccu-
pled Mexico City.
9. Gen. Garza renounced the office of
provisional president of Mexico. .
FEBRUARY. - - '.V
4. Gen. yilla proclaimed himself presi
dent ,
Carranza, head of the Constitutional
ist party in Mexico, expelled the
,Lsh minister. ...
APRIL.
s forces defeated at Irapuato by
Obregon's army.
Ilia's army defeated by Obregon's
forces at Celaya.
JUNE.
2. President Wilson warned the Mexi
can revolutionists to make peace.
B. Carranza troops occupied Mexico City.
27. Former President Huerta arrested at
Newman, N. M., by United States
marshals on charge of conspiracy.
-" july.
I Gen. Orozco, colleague of Gen. Huerta
and with him under ball to the United
States, jumped his ball and escaped
: ' from 131 Paso to Mexican soil. .
' AUGUST.
, 1 Conference of A. B. C. powers and the
United States over Mexico, met in
Washington.'
Q. Gen. Carranza resented President Wll-
I son's attempt to restore peace In
a, Mexico and was officially notified that
a . armed intervention In Mexico by the
United States- would not be approved
a by the A. B. C. powers.
3 . The United States and Argentina,
Brrzll, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and
GiJL'emala, Jointly, appealed to Mex
lcifTpartles to make peace.
Ce
th
cr J ye In peace conference.
S SEPTEMBER.
Pan-American -conferees on Mexican
affairs postponed decision three weeks.
:e t.nza's generals . announced that
hJ Iwo'ild support his -objection to
OCTOBER.
Pan American
conferees voted
to recommend
t he Carranza
party in Mexico
as the de facto
governments
Vhe United
States, Brazil,
Chile, Argenti
na, -Guatemala,
Bolivia, Urw
' guay, Colombia
and Nicaragua
formally recog-
, nlzed -Gen. Car-
Carranza,
ranza head of the de facto govern'
-inert at Mexico.
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I POLITICAL AND PERSONAL
a
JANUARX.
. President Wilson's daughter, Mrs.
Sayre, gave birth to a son in the
White House. -
President Wilson vetoed the immigra
tion bill.
MAhUH.
The Sixty-third congress closed.
APRIL.
General Victoriano Huerta arrived In
New York from Spain.
D, Mrs. William Cummin it Story re-elected
president of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
"' MAT.
4. Italy denounced the triple alliance, of
.V, which she was a member, with Ger-
. -' m an., null A 1 1 o, I-f n
Japan delivered an ultimatum to Chi
na demanding concessions.
China accepted Japan's demands with
out qualifications.
PresiiUnt Wilson reviewed the fleet on
Hudt river.
Presllent Wilson proclaimed United
States neutrality In the war between
Italy and Austria-Hungary.
Japoryjnd China signed treaties to car-
It japan's demands.
7.
17.
Photo by American
Press Association.
Robert Lansing.
J1NB.
X, British Field Marshal Kitchener dec
orated with the Garter. Gilbert Par
ker, the novelist,
created a baron.
3. General Bennett
H. l'oung re-elected
commander In
chief United Con
federate Veter
ans. United States peti
tion to dissolve
the United States
Steel corporation
denied by court
of appeals.
8. William Jennings
Bryan resigned
the portfolio of
state In Wilson's
cabinet.
9. Robert Lansing appointed secretary of
state ad interim.
JULY.
7" """"Jltical revolt against President
ft HUaume of Haiti to avenge the exe
1 1 c.aon of ICO political prisoners. Gull
' A laume took refuge In the French le
ration. v
AUGUST.
1 Germany refused to consider the W.
. P. Frye damage case a matter for
1 , ;jtotiatlons with the United States.
y i , treat Britain insisted upon her POl-
ir,.- r i wk ra.irH.iiua unuirai iraua Wlia
: 'vnnnanr.
",J Ited States forces took forcible pos
session or Port au Prince: resisting
Haitians fired upon.
H United States declined to put an am
bargo on the sale of munitions to
belligerents and agreed to accept pay
from Germany for the sinking of th
ship Fry.
tl Haiti elected Dartlguenav president.
asPTKMssn.
11 Naval advisory board appoint, wit
. Thomas A. Edison chairman.
M. Th Uattsd ttau nmrslsil ts r rn
ofl915
Chief Subjects
Conventions, Sporting,
Fires, Weather, Va
garies and Miscel
laneous Events.
Haltlqn government of President Dar
tiguenava and concluded a treaty, es
tablishing a protectorate for ten
years. . -President
Wilson welcomed the G. A.
R. veterans in Camp Emery, Wash
ington. -
; . ' OCTOBER.
'Captain E. R. Monfort of Ohio elect
ed commander in chief of the G. A. R.
NOVEMBER.
United States declared the British
blockade of neutral ports illegal.
Yoshihlto crowned emperor of Japan.
17.
General J. C. Black, noted lawyer and
civil war veteran. In Chicago; aged 76.
S. John D. Long, former secretary of
navy, at Hlngham, Mass. : aged 77. .
Paul Armstrong, playwright, -, in New
York: aged 48. . : "
SEPTEMBER. '" ' '
9. Albert G; Spalding, baseball veteran
and sporting goods manufacturer, at
Point Lorno, Cal.; aged 66.
H. Gen. B. H. Ripley, who led th Fed
eral advance into Richmond In 1866,
at Rutland, Vt.: aged 74.
tl Anthony Comstock, New York's moral
censor, at Summit, N. J. i aged 71.
Jl. Dr. Austin Flint, noted physician and
- alienist, in New York city; aged 80.
21 J. Kelr Hardle, noted English Social
. 1st, M. P. and lecturer. In Glasgow,
Scotland. '. .-
' OCTOBER. -' .'
Mi Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian states
man, former premier, in England:
aired 94. '
Blanche Walsh, actress, in Cleveland,
DECEMBER.
United States declared that German
attaches at Washington, Boy-Ed and
Von Fapen, were objectionable.
Sixty-fourth congress met. .
The United States demanded of Aus
tria a disavowal of the sinking of the
Italian liner Ancona Nov. .7.
Captains Boy-Ed and Von Papen re
called by the German governments.
The council of . state In China de
clared that the republic at a recent
election had voted to change the form
of government to a monarchy. The
crown was tendered to President Yuan
Shih Kai.
Wedding of President Wilson and Mrs.
Edith Boiling Gait.
Election of deputies in Greece.
Admiral Dewey's 78th birthday.
SHIPWRECKS. f
JANUARY.
18. British steamer Fenarth wrecked on
the Norfolk coast; 21 sailors drowned.
MARCH. : 1
S. United States submarine F-4 sunk off
Honolulu while making a submerged
' run. All on board drowned.
APRIL.
4, Dutch liner Maurlta lost in storm off
the Atlantlo coast; 49 people drowned.
JULY.
N. Lake excursion steamer Eastland
went down in Chicago river. Out of
2,400 (about) on board 981 passengers
and sailors were drowned.
I THE YEAR'S DEATH ROLL
JANUARY.
1 J. M. Wright, civil war veteran anc
military annalist, in Washington.
& R. W. Shurtleff, civil war veteran and
noted artist. In New York; aged 7ft.
10. Marshall P. Wider, humorist and au
thor, at St Paul. Minn.; aged 66. -
IX Mrs.' John Wood, once noted actress
on the . English-American stage,' In
England: aged 82.
17. Gen. A. M. Stoessel, noted in the de-
fens of Port Arthur In at ret
rograd: aged 67.
It. Gen. C. H. Tompkins, U. S. A., re
tired, in Washington; aged 84.
19. Col. J. A. Joyce. Federal veteran, au
thor and poet, In Washington; aged 75.
G. B. Frothlngham, noted light opera
star, at Burlington, Vt; aged 78.
FEBRUARY.
4. ;Alban J. Conant : veteran, artist,, 1
New York city: aged 93.
11 James Creelman. noted journalist hi
' Fanny Crosby, blind hymn writer, In
Brideenort Conn.
IS. Simon Brentano, head of noted New
York Arm of booksellers, In New York
citv: asred b&.
10. Frank Fuller, war governor of Utah
under Lincoln, In New York orty;
aged 88.
MARCH.
14. Samuel Bowles, editor an! publisher
of the Springfield Republican, at
Snrlnefleld. Mass,: aged 64.
20. Charles Francis Adams, historian and
publicist in Washington ; aged 80.
94. Marv Ann Jackson, widow of Gen. T.
J. (Stonewall) Jackson, at Charlotte,
N. C; aged 84.
APRIL.
8. Curtis Guild, statesman and diplomat
- In Boston: aged 65.
1. F. Hopklnson Smith, author and ar
tist, in New York city; aged 7B.
19, W. R. Nelson; editor Kansas City
Star. In that city: aged 74.
II. Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury of Vermont
at Burlington; aged 77.
1. Nelson W. Aldrlch, former senator
from Rhode Island, in New York city;
aged 73.
25. Frederick W. Seward, son of Secre
. tary of State W. IL Seward and who
was wounded In defending his father
when attacked April 14, 1865, at Mon
trose, N. Y.; aged 83.
MAY.
1 Olive Harper, author and translator,
in Philadelphia: need 73.
i. John W. Alexander, portrait artist.
former president of the National
Academy of Design, in New York
city; aged 59.
JUNE.
10. Gen. E. L. Mollneux, noted civil war
officer. In New York city: aged TSi.
IS, Col. C. B. Woodruff, U. S. A., noted
surgeon and anthropologist, In New
Roohelle. N. Y. : aged 65,
25. Rafael Joseffy, celebrated pianist in
New York city; aged 63.
27. Ellen Hardin Walworth, historical
writer, prominent In the D. A. R. In
Washington: aged 84.
29. O'Donovan Rossa (Jeremiah O'Dono
, van). Irish patriot leader, in New
York city; aged 84.
' . JULY.
X Gen. Porfirlo Diaz, former president
of Mexico, after
several terms
and deposed by
Madero, In Par
Is; aged 85.
11. St Clair McKel
way, editor of
the Brooklyn
Eagle, In Brook
lyn, N. Y.j aged
70.
IL Dr. W. A. Crof
fut. Journalist
traveler and au
thor, In Wash
ington; aged 8a
AUGUST.
i. Maarten Maw
ten a. Dutch nov
elist in Zelst Holland: agd 17.
1 General B. F. Tracy, lawyer and sol
dier, former secretary of navy, In New
York city; aged to.
It, John W. Harper, acted publisher, la
New Ysrk; a a.
Porfirlo Diss,
O.j aged 42.
NOVEMBER
1, Herman
Rld-
der, German
American edi
tor, in New
York; aged 64.
Booker T.
Washington,
negro leader
and educator,
at Tuskeegee,
Ala.; aged 57.
Susan E. Dick
inson, journal
ist at Scran
ton. Pa.; aged
84.
Dr. Solomon
Schechter, not
ed authority en
the Hebrew
Scriptures, in
New York;
aged tiS.
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! MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 1
19.
19.
Photo by American
Press Association.
Herman Bidder.
NATURE FREAKS.
. JANUARY.
12. Earthquake In Italy; many cities and
towns destroyed, Avezzano being the
' principal sufferer; death list 23,978;
shock . recorded by seismograph.. In
Washington.
APRIL. ' .:' .
8. Snowstorm and 70 mile gale raged on
the Atlantlo coast.
B. Texas swept by 'a rain and electrical
storm; 25 dead. - 1
28. April heat record of 91 degrees In New
York city. '
MAY.
7. Frost snow and rain In the central
' west from Texas to Montana,
tZ. Lassen peak, California, burst out in
.eruption.
, ' . JUNB. ''
O. Earthquake in southern California
caused loss of 21,000,000.
JULY.
T. Tornado in the middle west. Cincin
nati suffered most; dead upward of 40,
with many missing.
15. Flood In Ohio caused loss of 22,000,
000; S persons drowned.
- AUGUST. ;.
2, Cloudburst at Erie, Pa., caused a loss
of S6.00O.O0O: 75 deaths.
11 Vesuvius. Etna and StrombolL th
Italian volcanoes, became active.
11 Tropical hurricane flooded Galveston
with waters of the gulf; other points
on the coast invaded. Lobs estimated
at 130,000,000 and deaths upward of 800,
with many missing. ,
20. Frost In the middle west '
'. BEETJtMBBH. '
IE. . - Temperature 88 In- New York; hottest
8ept 16 on record.
29. . Gulf hurricane Btruck Louisiana coast:
deaths estimated about 5S0.
: - y. . NOVEMBER.
SL 42 persons killed and Injured by wind
storm at Hot Springs, Ark.
FIELD OF SPORTS.
Photo by American
Press Association,
Jess Willard.
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APRIL.
(.; Jess Willard
defeated Jack
Johnson in 25
' rounds at Ha
vana, Cuba.
14. League baseball
season opened.
JUNB.
L Walter 3. Travis
won his fourth
Metropolitan golf
championship,
defeating J. O.
Anderson 2 up In
the final, at Rye,
N. Y.
12. Women's nation
al tennis cham
pionship won by
Molla Bjurstedt
at Philadelphia.
Score, 4 6, 6 2, 6-0.
18. Jerome D. Travers, noted amateur,
won title of open golf championship
of the United States, defeating Mc-
Namara, at BaltuBrol, N. J.
25. Yale defeated Harvard in the varsity
races at New Haven, winning all var
sity, freshman and second varsity
events.
28. Cornell won the varsity race at
Poughkeepsie, with Leland .Stanford
second; time, 20:30 8-5; also junior race,
in 10:001-5, with Pennsylvania second.
Syracuse won the freshman race In
9:29 3-6, with Cornell second.
JULY.
11 Norman S. Tuber of Boston made a
new world's one mile run record at
Cambridge; time 4 minutes 12 3-5 sec
.. onds.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Amateur golf championship of the
United States won by Robert A. Gard
ner of Chicago, who defeated John G.
Anderson of Mount Vernon. N. Y., 6
up and 4 to plav, at Detroit
7. William M. Johnston won the national
tennis singles championship at Forest
. Hills, N. Y., defeating Maurice E. Mc
Loughlin with a score of 16, 60, 7,
10-8.
tt Women's golf championship won by
Mrs. C. H. Vanderbeck of Philadel
phia at Chicago, 8 up and 2 to play;
Mrs. W. A. Gavin runner up.
16. Directum I. made new world's pacing
record of 1:56 for a mile without a
wind shield at Syracuse, N. Y.
9. The Philadelphia club clinched the Na
tional league pennant at Boston by
defeating Boston S to 0.
10. Boston became American league cham
pion through the defeat of Detroit by
St Louis, 8 to 2, at Detroit
OCTOBER.
9. Gil 'Anderson won 250 mile auto race
for the Astor Cup at Sheepshead Bay.
U. Boston Americana defeated the Phila
delphia Nationals In the fifth and de
ciding game of the world's series, ( to
i at Philadelphia.
SS. Cornell defeated Harvard 10 to at
Cambridge, Mass.
Princeton defeated Dartmouth 80 to 7 at
. Princeton.
NOVBMBB. '
1 Harvard defeated Princeton 10 to at
football.
12. Yale defeated Princeton 12 to 7.
29. Harvard beat Yale 41 to 0 at football, j
8. Army vanquished Navy 14 to at toot-.
J. W. Gerard.
'.y ' . JANUARY. . '
1. Panama-California exposition opened
at San Diego.
4. London Stock Exchange reopened.
5. United States supreme court ruled that
the Dnnbury hatters must pay .'52,000
fine for a boycott set up in 1902.
18. Fir in Koebllng's wire plant at Tren
ton caused a loss of Sl.MW.OoO,
FEBRUARY.
U, Frank James, last of James brothers
' noted in th civil war and later as
desperate men, died near Excelsior
J Springs, Mo.; aged 74. .
20. Panama-Pacific International exposi
tion at Ban Francisco formally opened.
. MARCH.
1 Anarchists caught in an attempt to
explode bombs In St Patrick's cathe
v dral, New York.
I Harry Kendall Thaw placed on trial
in New York for conspiracy to escape
the asylum at Matteawan.
II Thaw and four alleged conspirators
acquitted on charge of conspiracy.
14. Lincoln Beachey, the . American avi
ator, killed in flight at the Panaina
Paclflo exposition, in San Francisco.
APRIL.
IS. Bethlehem Steel jumped to 155 in th
New York Stock Exchange, where (,
800 shares were dealt In.
21 Publto library of St Paul destroyed by
fire; loss f3T5,000. International peace
congress met at The Hngue. Name of
Culebra cut in the Panama canal,
changed to Galllaxd cut
90. Colon, Panama, swept by fire; loss
23,500,000 In the business district, where
465 buildings were destroyed.
MAY. I
11. Naval fleet arrived at New York.
11 New government proclaimed by revo
lutionists In Portugal. The new pre
mier, Joao Cbagas, -shot by a senator.
11 President Wilson protested to Ger
many In the Lusitanla case. . Naval
parade at New York.
- JUNB. -
United Confederate veterans met at
Richmond.
Georgia prison commission reported
against commuting sentence of Frank,
alleged murderor.
10. Second United States note to Ger
many sent to Ambassador J. W. Ge
rard In Berlin, pro-
testing against sub
marining ocean
liners.
It. Yaqul Indians de
clared war on the
United States.
Fleet ordered to
sail for Lower Cal
ifornia to protect
- Americans.-.
18. Harry K. Thaw
granted a jury trial
to test his sanity.
19. The Arizona battle
ship, biggest United
States super-dreaa-.
naught launched at Brooklyn navy
' . yard. .
. ;; -. july. '- ,-
1 J. P. Morgan, th banker, shot at
, Glen Cove, N. Y., by Frank Holt
German college professor.
14. Harry K. Thaw declared sane by an
advisory Jury in New York city.
14. The state department notified Great
Britain, through Ambassador w. ri.
- Page, that this country would not
recognise British orders In council as
valid.
SL Southold, N. Y., began the 275th an
niversary of its settlement (1640).
28. Haitian revolutions Invaded th
French legation, dragged out th de
posed president, Gulllaume, and shot
him to death.
29. Haitian snipers killed 2 United States
marines who wer In Port au Prince
protecting-foreigners.'
81 Former Police Lieutenant Charles
- Becker executed at Sing Sing for
complicity In the murder of Hermann
.'" Rosenthal. .
. AUGUST. ' ' '
19. : United States battleships Louisiana
and New Hampshire sailed for Vera
. Cruz,- Mexico, to quell, antt-forelgn
-demonstrations.'
U. Heavy shipment of British treasure.
Including 219.000,000 In gold, arrived at
New York. ' -" '
If. Riot in Boston; Italian reservists
Baulted policemen who protected Ger
mans from the mob.
11 National Educational association met
at Oakland. Cat
Leo Frank, Georgia life convict, forcibly
taken from prison at Milledgevllle and
hanged near Marietta, home of his al
leged victim, Mary Phagan.
2L Great Britain declared cotton contra,
band.
24. Conference of governors met In Bos
ton.
30. Spanish American War Veterans met
at Scranton, Pa.
31. United States F-4, which sank oft
Honolulu March 25, was raised.
SEPTEMBER. .
4. 22.000,000 fire on the grain pier In New-
port News, Va.
7. 266,000,000 in British gold reached New
York via the American Express.
Semicentennial anniversary of the Wash
Ington grand review of 1865 by 20,000
G. A. R. veterans.
Sons of Veterans' annual encampment
In Washington.
17. Vllhjalmur Stefansson. the explorer,
heard from after a silence of 17
months. He was In Bnnks Lnnd.
21 In an action near Cape Haltlen, Haiti,
10 Americans were wounded and 40
Haitian rebels killed,
27. Gasoline and dynamite explosion In
the business district of Ardmore, Okla.
killed 55 people and Injured over 100;
property loss 1500,000.
49th annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic opened In Wash
ington. 28. Farmers' National Congress opened at
Omaha.
29. Wireless phone talk was accomplished
between Arlington, Va., and Snn Fran
cisco, 3.000 miles.
80. Speech transmitted by wireless phone
from Arlington, Va,, to Honolulu, 4,600
miles.
OCTOBER.
4. International farm congress opened at
Denver.
IL National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union met at Beattle, Wash.
2L Wireless telephoning accomplished be
tween Arlington, Va,, and Paris.
HI Steamer Hocking sailing under United
States flag seized by a British cruiser
off the port of New York.
NOVEMBER.
10. Great Britain seized at Saint Lucia the
United States steamer Tennessee. .
DECEMBER.
4. World's Fair: Panama-Pacific exposi
tion closed: attendance over 17,000,000;
profits 92.000.000.
Ford's peace mission set out from New
York.
1 Sixty-fourth congress convened.
1 Austria RSked to disavow the act of
sinking the ocean liner Ancona.
IL Immigration statistics for 19u showed
- a falling off of arrivals of nearly 600,
000 up to Doc. 1 against th arrivals
of 1914.
14 Convention: National American Wo
man Suffrage association meets In
Washington.
27. Conventions: American Society of In
ternational Law and Pan-American
Scientific congress meet In Washington.
Jl Convention: American Historical
statloa mists la WsjsbinsTtasv
World War
And Various
Movements on 1 Land
and Sea With New
Nations In
Line.
4H
WAR ON THE WATER.
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' JANUARY. '
British battleship Formidable sunk In
the English channel by German sub
marine or a mine; over 600 drowned.
In a German naval attack on the Eng
lish coast the German cruiser Bluecher
was sunk, with about 700 of her crew.
British cruiser Lion disabled.
FEBRUARY. V.'
German admiralty declared a war
zone In the English channel after Feb,
18.
German war zone decree went Into ef
fect. : : !, :
MARCH. ' -!.--
British battleships Irresistible and
Ocean and French battleship Bouvet
sunk during a naval, attack in the
Dardanelles.
German submarine U-28 torpedoed
British Bhlps Falaba and Aguilla In
St. George's channel; 68 passengers
and 70 sailors lost
APRIL. i.
French steamor Leon Gambetta tor
pedoed by an Austrian submarine in
the strait of Otrantoi , 500 seamen
drowned.
, MAY. .
The Lusitanla was torpedoed and
sunk off Klnsale, Munster coast Ire
land. Out of 2,104 persons on board
1,100 were lost
British battleship Goliath torpedoed In
the Dardanelles, with loss of 500 Uvea
British battleship Triumph torpdoed
in the Dardanelles.
British battleship Majestio sunk by a
torpedo in the Dardanelles. t
JUNE.
Italian submarine Meduso torpedoed
by an Austrian submarine.
British admiralty steamer Armenian,
-with Americans in her crew, torpe
doed off th British coast. 22 Ameri
cans lost
JULY.
Italian cruiser Amalfl sunk by Aus
trian submarine in ui n -
auqust. .' , ;''-
British submarine sank th Turkish
battleship Barbarossa In th sea of
Marmora.
British transport Royal Edward sunk
by an enemy submarine In the Aegean
tea: loss of nearly 1.000 Uvea.
A German submarine torpedoed th
Whit Star, liner Arabia off Cap
Clear, Ireland; 29 Americans on board,
. ' . OCTOBER, I '
German cruiser Prins Adalbert sunk
bv British submarine; crew of 557
nearly all lost. -
NOVEMBER. .
Italian liner Ancona sunk by Austrian
submarine In th Mediterranean; 20
lives lost, inciuaing some Aminntw
tM.H49SlVvSmMS
Campaigns
Minor Events
Battle Front In Poland,
France, Belgium, Aus
tria, Gallipoli, Ser
via and Egypt.
Greeoe protested against the landing
of troops at SalonlKl to defend uervia.
Austro-Qerman forces under General
von Mackensen Invaded Bervia. nui-a-aria
sent 24 hour ultimatum to Servla
Germans recaptured Belgrade, capital
of Servla.
Bulgaria declared war on Servla.
A general attack by Italians at Gorlts
failed after an all day struggle.
11
' , NOVEMBER.
Bulgarians captured Nlsh, great rail
way center In Servla, . ,
Germans and Austrian captured Ml
trovltza and Pristine, Servla.
DECEMBER.
British defeated by Turks near Bag
dad. MesoDotamla.
Germans and Austrlans captured Mon
astic Servla.
Balkans: Allied troops In Greeoe fell
back on Salonika
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. - ... -' JANUARY.
is nllln. h.cnn to retreat south of
the' Aisne at Bolssons, abandoning I
miles of trenches.
14. Allies withdrew south of the Alme,
losing 6,000 prisoners and many guns.
MARCH. . ' :
11 Beginning of British attacks at Nuv(
Chapelle, France. '
12-11 French attacks and German counter
attacks continued at Neuve Chapelle,
with heavy losses.
APRIL.
21 Germans recaptured Hartmannswel
lerkopf, In the Vosges mountains.
They repulsed an attack by allies
along the Ypres canal with asphyx
iating gas and crossed that barrier to
the west side.
90. German artillery at Nleuport Belgium,
bombarded Dunkirk, France, at 23
miles range.
SEPTEMBER.
26. Great drive of the allies from the
French seacoast to Verdun. Heavy
capture of guns reported and 20,000 un
wounded prisoners. German front bro
ken 5 miles In length at Loos, La Bas
ses and Souchez, and 25 miles In th
Champagne.
29. Allies continued western drive.
NOVEMBER.
11 Allies held Joint war council In Paris.
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JANUARY. '
6. Russian forces were uouth of the Car
: nRthlnn mountains Invading Hungary.
28. A large Russian army waa advancing
on th Russian border against n.oe
nlssberg. a German fortified city in
' East Prussia. 1
' FEBRUARY. ,
. ntnmni checked In a desperate at-
tack on Russian lines at Bollraow, be-
' fni-M Wftrnaw. .
t. Germans, by a forced march, turned
th Russian flank at Johannesburg, In
v East Prussia, forcing the enemy to r
tm hnk tn nufurian territory.
1 Germans In Russia cut th railroad
Kiiinri thn retreating Russian army,
North of Augustowo th Russians d-
- serted their positions east 01 in na-
urlnn Inkns.
24. Germans stormed and captured Prsa-
nysz, Poland, an important nuasuvi
, post north or Warsaw,
- MARCH.
22. Th Austrian fortress of Prsemysl, In
. riAllnlB anirrnriAl-A to the Russian
avmv aftnr a aallant and prolonged
defense, About 50,000 arrod Austrlans
wer among the tropnies. .
21 - Russians recaptured Przasnyss, In Po
land, north of Warsaw.
APRIL. -.-
I Russians advanced through Boetok
pass, piercing th Austrian lines In
th carpatmana.
MAT,
11 Austro-Germ&ns recaptured Jaroala-v,
h xat hank of Ban river. Gall-
ola, forcing the Russians to abandon
the tarpatnian nrauswin
' JUNB. V
1 Germans, led by
.'General vor.
' Mackensen, -recaptured
Prsem
y si. Gal tola,
which the Rus
sians had occu-
. pled March 22.
after a siege of
20 daya
21., Lemberg, Gall
cla, recaptured
' byAustrlansaft
er ten months'
i occupatlpn by
1 Russians. "
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FEBRUARY.
2. Turks estimated at 12,000 attacked
British guards along Suez canal south
of Ismallla, Egypt.
24. Allied fleet bombarded Turkish forts
guarding the sea entrance to Constan
tinople. APRIL.
25. Allied troops landed on the shore of
the Dardanelles under fire from the
Turkish guns.
MAY. '
22. Italy made forma) proclamation of
war.
25. Austrian navy and airships attacked
Italy s coast. Italian troops seized
Austrian territory.
JUNE.
7. Italian troops, led
by General Cador
na, forced the Im
portant river
Isonzo In advance
toward Trieste.
AUBtrls,
1 Italians captured
. Monfalcone, a n
Important strate
gic town north
west of Trieste
AUOUST.
1 Italy sent an ul
timatum to Tur
key. -
1 Austrlans launch
ed counterattacks
on the Italian line
at Goritz.
SEPTEMBER,
11 Turkish artillery drove th allied
troops from their wrks on th Darda
nelles. 22. Bulgaria mobilized her army.
OCTOBER.
1 Russia sent an ultimatum to Bulgaria
demanding dismissal of Oanmaa offi
cers, eta.
1 fvvt. .
Germans again
captured tb post of Przasnvss,
mltpn north nf Warsaw.
Austrlans captured Radom, 57 miles I
south of Warsaw.
, . , AUGUST.
German army captured Warsaw, aftes
camoalgn which lasted over sight
months. The Russian garrison
treated east of the Vistula.
General von Mackensen's Germani
troops captured Slodl'-e, cutting the
- Warsaw-Moscow railway.
Novo Georglovsk, the second greatest
Russlnn fortress In Poland, with
aarrlson. estimated at from 40,909
85,000 men, captured by General von
Heselor's German army,
SEPTEMBER,
Germnns captured Grodno and ad
vanced on Riga,
NOVEMBER.
Germans abandoned Important posi
tions In front of Riga.
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Photo by American
Press Association.
General Cedorna.
I MINOR WAR EVENTS.
JANUARY.
2S. The German government ordered the
seizure of private stores of corn,
wheat and flour.
FEBRUARY.
16. Germany Informed the United States
that she would insist on maintaining
the war zone In the English channel.
MARCH.
L England announced her Intention to
stop all ships to nnd from the
ports of Germany.
14, The German cruiser Dresden, which
survived the battle of Falkland is
lands, sunk in battle with a British
fleet near San Juan Fernondnz Island,
off Chill.
15. Great Britain issued a weeping order
in council cutting off all outside trade
with Germany and refused to modify
tus war zone blockade.
JULY. ,,
1 Germany replied to note of the United
States (June 10), promlsli.g to safe
guard Americans under ti.elr own flag.
. AtlQUST.
1 Great Britain sent notes to the United
States upholding her blockade.
24. Berlin Informed Washington that the
killing of Americans on the Arabic
was not Intentional.
SEPTEMBER.
L German ambassador announced that
liners would not be sunk by subma-
, rlnes without warning unless thty re
sisted or attempted to escape.
I German airships -raided London, In
juring 84 persons and killing 20.
. ' OCTOBER, . :
V Germany disavowed the sinking of th
Amblo sod agreed to pay Indemnity.
II Fifty-flv killed and 114 injured In
London by Zeppelin attack,
DECEMBER, .
XL London recruiting offices crowded with
volunteers under the Lord Derby plan,
which was to and Dee, IL