ChroooSagical
Classified by
Affairs the World Over,
With Obituary and
Accident Record
of the .Year.
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j: MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
JAN U ART.
Carranza's forces defeated Villa's
troons at Pueblo; Villa lost 700 killed.
Qen. Roque Gonzales Garza chosen
provisional president of Mexico by the
convention at Mexico City.
Provisional President Garza and his
cabinet abandoned Mexico City as a
capital.
Mexican First Chief Carranza reo cou
pled Mexico City.
Gen. Garza renounced the office of
provisional president of Mexico.
FEBRUARY.
Gen. Villa proclaimed himself presi
dent. Carranza, head of the Constitutional
ist party In Mexico, expelled the
Spanish minister.
APRIL,
Villa's forces defeated at Irapuato by
Gen. Obregon's army.
Villa's army defeated by Obregon's
forces at Celaya.
JUNK.
President 'Wilson warned the Mexi
can revolutionists to make peace.
Carranza troops occupied Mexico City.
Former President Huerta arrested at
Newman, N. M., by United States
marshals on charge of conspiracy.
JUtsT,
Gen. Orozco, colleague of Gen. Huerta
and with him under bail to the United
States, Jumped his ball and escaped
from El Paso to Mexican solL
AUGUST.
Conference of A. B. C. powers and the
United States over Mexico, met In
Washington.
Gen. Carranza resented President Wil
son's attempt to restore peace In
Mexico and was officially notified that
armed intervention in Mexico by the
United States would not be approved
by the A. B. C. powers.
The United States and Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and
Guatemala, Jointly, appealed to Mex
ican parties to make peace.
Carranza's generals announced that
they would support his objection to
engage in ft peace conference.
BBPTEMBKR.
Pan-American conferees on Mexican
affairs postponed decision three weeks.
OCTOBER.
Pan - American
conferees voted
to recommend
the Carranza
party in Mexico
as the de facto
government.
The United
Btates. Brazil,
Chile, Argenti
na, Guatemala,
Bolivia. Uru
guay, Colombia
and Nicaragua
formally recog
nized Gen. Car
Carranza.
ranza A'wd of the de facto govern
ment W Mexico.
o SfULIIIUAL AND rtribUNAL
JANUARY.
; President Wilson's daughter, Mrs.
VVA Sayre. gave birth to a son in the
. ' ixi White House.
r2M President Wilson vetoed the immigra
tion bilL
MARCH.
The Sixty-third congress closed.
' APRIL.
General Vlctortano Huerta arrived In
New York from Spain.
6. Mrs. William Cummlng Story re-elected
president of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
MAY.
4. Italy denounced the triple alliance, of
which she was a member, with Ger
many and Austria.
7. Japan delivered an ultimatum to Chi
na demanding concessions.
5. China accepted Japan's demand with
out qualifications.
17 President Wilson reviewed the fleet on
Hudson river.
Y President Wilson proclaimed United
States neutrality in the war between
Italy and Austria-Hungary.
Japan and China signed treaties to car
ry out Japan's demands.
JUNB.
ft. British Field Marshal Kitchener dec
orated with the Garter. Gilbert Par
ker, the novelist.
. - : ;.s...
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created a baron.
I General Bennett
H. Young re-elected
commander in
chief United Con
federate Veter
ans. United States peti
tion to dissolve
the United States
fit eel corporation
denied by court
of appeala
I William Jennings
Bryan resigned
. by American
48 Association.
the portfolio of
tort Lansing.
tat in Wilson'
cabinet.
ofcert Lansing appointed secretary of
.-eVte ad Interim.
JtJLY.
'nHtlcal revolt asr&Inat President
jJPuaillaurae of Haiti to avenge the exe
cution ok tv puuucii pnwnfin, vjuii
taume took refuge la tbe French le-
x gat Ion.
- AUOUM.
Germany refused to consider the W.
S P. Frye damage ease a matter for
neaetlatlon with the United Statea
Great Britain Insisted upon her pol-
Icy of restricting neutral trad with
Germany.
C Untied States forces took forcible po
sesfrion.ef Port au Prlao; resisting
HmjtVn ffrM upon.
H Unc4 Otate declined to pat aa an
banco on the al of munitions to
" belligereWs a ad agreed to accept pay
from Gmiany for tbe sinking of the
ship FrYe" ' .
U. Bam itd DaruraenT preMdent.
. " SpYIMBm.
n. Navaldv1m-r board appointed, wtti
T&osAsn A. Kdlsoa chairman.
It The United State rrcogaisHi tj aew
THE POLS COUNTY OBSERVER 0 IVES THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY
Review of 1915
Chief Subjects
Conventions, Sporting,
Fires, Weather, Va
garies and Miscel
laneous Events.
Haitian government of President Dar
tlguenave and concluded a treaty, es
tablishing a protectorate for ten
years.
a. President Wilson welcomed the G. A.
R. veterans In Camp Emery, Wash
ington.
OCTOBER.
1. Captain E. Ri Monfort of Ohio elect
ed commander In chief of the G. A. R.
NOVEMBER.
7. United States declared the British
blockade of neutral porta Illegal.
10, Yoshlhito crowned emperor of Japan.
DSCEMBEB.
1 United States declared that German
attaches at Washington, Boy-Ed and
Von Papen, were objectionable.
, Sixty-fourth congress met.
ft. The United States demanded of Aus
tria a disavowal of the sinking of the
Italian liner Ancona Nov. 7.
UX Captains Boy-Ed and Von Papen re
called by the German governments.
LL 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
Shin Kal.
A Wedding" of President Wilson and Mrs.
Edith Boiling Gait.
.9. Election of deputies in Greecef
8. Admiral Dewey's 78th birthday.
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SHIPWRECKS.
. JANUARY.
18. British steamer Penarth wrecked on
the Norfolk coast; 21 sailors drowned.
MARCH.
26. United States submarine F-4 sunk off
Honolulu while making a submerged
run. All 1m board drowned.
APRIL.
4. Dutch liner Maurita lost In storm off
the Atlantic coast; 49 people drowned.
JULY.
24. Lake excursion steamer Eastland
went down in Chicago river. Out of
2,400 (about) on board 981 passengers
and sailors were drowned.
044M
THE YEAR'S DEATH ROLL
JANUARY.
2. J. M. Wright, civil war veteran and
military annalist, in Washington.
t, R. W. Shurtleff, civil war veteran and
noted artist, in New York; aged 75.
10. Marshall P. Wilder, humorist and au
thor, at St. Paul, Minn.; aged 66.
12. Mrs. John Wood, once noted actress
on the English-American stage, In
England; aged 82.
17. Gen. A. M. Stoessel, noted in the de
fense of Port Arthur in 1904-5, at Pet
rograd; aged 67.
18. Gen. C. H. Tompkins, U. 8. A., re
tired. In Washington; aged 84.
19. Col. J. A. Joyce, Federal veteran, au
thor and poet, in Washington; aged 75.
G. B. Frothingham, noted light opera
star, at Burlington, Vt.; aged 78.
FEBRUARY.
4. Atban J. Conant, veteran artist, In
New York city; aged 93.
12. James Creel man, noted Journalist In
Berlin; aged 63.
Fanny Crosby, blind hymn writer, In
Bridgeport, Conn.
15. Simon Brentano, head of noted New
York firm of bookseller, In New York
city; aged 55.
20. Frank Fuller, war governor of Utah
under Lincoln, in New York city;
aged 88.
MARCH.
14. Samuel Bowles, editor and publisher
of the Springfield Republican, at
Springfield, Mass.; aged 64.
20. Charles Francis Adams, historian and
publicist, In Washington; aged 80,
24. Mary Ann Jackson, widow of Gen. T.
J. (Stonewall) Jackson, at Charlotte,
N. C; aged 84.
APRIL.
4 Curtis Guild, statesman and diplomat,
in Boston; aged 55.
7. F. Hopkinson Smith, author and ar
tist. In New York city; aged 76.
12. W. R. Nelson, editor Kansas City
Star, in that city; aged 74.
16. Ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury of Vermont,
at Burlington; aged 77.
11 Nelson W. Aldrlch, former senator
from Rhode Island, in New York city; 1
aged 73,
26. h rederick W. Seward, son of Secre
tary of State W. H. Seward and who
was Grounded in defending his father
when attacked April 14, is, at Mon
trose, N. Y.; aged 83.
MAY.
t Olive Harper, author and translator.
In Philadelphia; aged 73.
SL John W. Alexander, portrait artist
former president of the National
Academy of Design, In New York
city; aged 59.
JUNBL
10. Gen. E. L. Mollneux, noted civil war
officer, In New York city; aged 82.
13. Col. C. E. Woodruff. U. S. A., noted
surgeon and anthropologist. In New
Rochelle, N. Y.; aged 66.
26. Rafael Joseffy, celebrated pianist, la
New York city; aged 63.
27. Ellen Hardin Walworth, historical
writer, prominent in the D. A. R. in
Washington; aged 84.
21. O' Donovan Rossa (Jeremiah O' Dono
van), Irish patriot leader. In New
York city; aged 84.
JULY.
1 Gen. Porflrlo Dtaa, former president
of Mexico, arter
several term
and deposed by
Madera, In Par
Is; aged 86.
H. St. Clair McK el
way, editor of
t h Brooklyn
Eagle, In Brook
lyn. N. Y.i aged
TO.
SL Dr. W. A Crof
fut. Journal let,
traveler and au
thor, la Wash
ington; aged 99.
A INJUR.
ft, Kaarteu Maar
tena Dutch nov
Porflrlo tMaa
elist. In ZeUrt. Holland: aged 17.
ft. General B. F. Tracy, lawyer and sol
dier, former secretary of navy, la New
, Tor city; aged 86.
It Joan W. Harper, notes publisher, to
New York: a M.
IT. General J. C. Black, noted lawyer and
civil war veteran. In Chicago: aged 78.
28. John V. Long, former secretary of
navy, at Hlngham, Mass. ; aged 77.
Paul Armstrong, playwright, In New
York; aged 46.
SEPTEMBER.
9. Albert G. Spalding, baseball veteran
and sporting goods manufacturer, at
Point Loma, Cal.; aged
14. Gen. E. H. Ripley, who led the Fed
eral advance into Richmond In 1865,
at Rut and. Vt.: seed 76.
2L Anthony Comstock, New York's moral
censor, at Summit, N. J.; agea a.
22. Dr. Austin Flint, noted physician and
alienist in New York city; aged 80.
28. J. Kelr Hardle. noted English Social
ist, M. P. and lecturer, in Glasgow,
Scotland.
OCTOBER,
30. Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian states
man, former premier. In England,
aired 94.
XL Blanche Walsh, actress, In Cleveland,
O.; aged 42.
NOVEMBER.
L Herman
Kid
der. German-
American edi
tor, In New
York: aged 64.
Booker T.
Washington
negro leader
and educator,
at Tuskeegee,
Ala: aged 67.
Susan E. Dick
lnson, journal'
1st, at Scran
ton, Pa; aged
84,
Dr. Solomon
Schechter, not
ed authority on
the Hebrew
Photo by American
Press Association,
Scriptures, in
New York
aged 68. .
Herman Bidder.
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NATURE FREAKS.
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JANUARY.
Earthquake In Italy; many cities and
towns destroyed, Avezzano being the
principal sufferer; death list 29,978;
shock recorded by seismograph in
Washington.
APRIL.
Snowstorm and 70 mile gal raged on
the Atlantic coast.
22.
Texas swept by a rain and electrical
storm; 25 dead.
26. April heat record of 91 degree In New
York city.
MAT.
7.
Frost, snow and rain In the central
west from Texas to Montana.
Lassen peak, California, burst out in
eruption. ,
: JUNE.
Earthquake In southern California
caused loss of $1,000,000.
: JULT.
Tornado In the middle west. Cincin
nati suffered most; dead upward of 40,
with many missing.
16.
Flood In Ohio caused loss of 82,000,-
000; 6 persons drowned.
AUOUST.
Cloudburst at Erie, Pa., caused a loss
Of 86,000,000: 75 deaths.
Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli, the
Italian volcanoes, became active.
Tropical hurricane flooded Galveston
with waters. of the gulf; other points
on the coast Invaded. Los estimated
at 330.000,000 and deaths upward of 300.
with many missing.
Frost In the middle west
SEPTEMBER.
15.
Temperature 88 in New York; hottest
Sept. 16 on record.
Gulf hurricane struck Louisiana coaat:
deaths estimated about 650.
NOVEMBER,
42 persons killed and Injured by wind
storm at Hot Springs, Ark,
FIELD OF SPORTS.
APRII
8. Jess Willard
defeated Jack
Johnson In 26
rounds at Ha
vana, Cuba
14. League baseball
season opened.
JUNB.
S. Walter J. Travis
won his fourth
Metropolitan golf
championship,
defeating J. G.
Anderson 2 up in
the final, at Hye,
N. Y.
IX. Women' nation
al tennis cham
pionship won by
Molla BjurBtedt
Photo by American
Press Association.
at Philadelphia
Score, 46, 62, 60.
Jess Willard.
18. Jerome D. Travers, noted amateur,
won title of open golf championship
of the United Statea defeating Mc
Namara, at Baltusrol, N. J.
28. Yale defeated Harvard in the varsity
races at New Haven, winning all var
sity, freshman and second varsity
eventa
28. Cornell won the varsity race at
Poughkeepsie, with Leland Stanford
second; time, 20:36 8-6; also junior race.
In 10:001-6, with Pennsylvania second.
Syracuse won the freshman race In
9:29 3-6, with Cornell second.
JULT.
18. Norman S. Taber of Boston made a
new world's one mile run record at
Cambridge; time 4 minute 12 8-5 sec
ond SPTEMBBR,
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 8
np and 4 to plav, at Detroit
t. William M. Johnston won the national
tennis singles championship at Forest
Hills, N. Y., defeating Maurice B. Mc
Loughlln with a score of 14, 80, T 6,
10-4.
IL Women' golf championship won by
Mra C H. Vanderbeck of Philadel
phia at Chicago, S up and t to play;
Mrs. W. A Gavin runner up.
V Directum L mad new world's pacing
record of 1:56 for a mile without
wind shield at Syracuse, N. Y.
I- The Philadelphia club clinched the Na
tional league pennant at Boston by
defeating Boston 6 to
0. Boston became American league cham
pion through the defeat of Detroit by
8t Louis. 8 to X at Detroit
GO Anderson woo 950 mile auto race
for the Astor Cup at SheepsheadL Bay.
XL Boston American defeated the Phila
delphia National In the fifth and de
ckling game of tho world's series 8 to
4, at Philadelphia.
S. Cornell defeated Harvard It to at
Cambridge, Maaa.
Prtncetoa defeated Dartmouth to T at
Princeton.
KOTaanaa.
C Harvard defeated Prtncetoa W to at
football.
It. Yale defeated PiUioetow U to T.
99. Harvard beat Yai 41 to t at footbalL
9. Army vanquished Navy 14 to at foot-
WAKT TO READ, AKD COXSEQU
I MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
nMrtiRT.
L Panama-California exposition opened
at San Diego.
a t i mnir i.r.hanD'B reoDenea.
6. United State. Bupremo court ruled that
the Danbury hatters must pay IK
fine for a Doycott aei ui
a. Fire In Roebling'a wire plant at Tren
ton caused a losa of $1,500,000.
18. Frank James, last of James brothers
noted In the civil wr and later as
desperate men, died near Excelsior
Springs, HO.; agea i.
20. Panama-Pacific International exposi
tion at San Francisco ionium
MARCH.
I Anarchists caught In an attempt to
explode bombs In cn. fai.
J I Mao, Vwk
J. Harry Kendall Thaw placed on trial
in New York for conspiracy to escape
the asylum at Matteawan.
18. Thaw and four alleged conspirators
acquitted on charge of conspiracy.
u. Lincoln Beachey. the American avi
ator, killed In flight at the Panama.
Paclflo exposition, in Saa Francisco.
APRIL.
13. Bethlehem Steel Jumped to 155 In the
New York Stock Exchange, wuer
QUA -han. war. dflfllt In.
3. Public library of St. Paul destroyed by
Are; loss 3W,000. International peace
.nurrni met at The Hague. Name of
Culebra cut, In the Panama, canal,
ni..nff.H tn DAlHard cut.
90. Colon, Panama, swept by Are; loss
$3,500,000 In the business district, where
405 buildings were aesiruynu. ,
MAT.
11. Naval fleet arrived at New York.
It. New government proclaimed by revo
lutionists In Portugal, ine new pre
mier, Joao Chagas. shot by a senator.
18. President Wilson protested to Ger
many In the Lusltanla case. Naval
parade at New York.
JUNE.
t United Confederate veterans met at
Richmond.
1 Georgia prison commission reported
against commuting sentence of Frank,
alleged murderer.
10. Second United States note to Ger
many sent to Ambassador J. W. Ge
rard in Berlin, pro
testing against sub
marining o o e a n
liners.
17. Yaqul Indians de
clared war on the
United Btates.
Fleet ordered to
sail for Lower Cal
ifornia to protect
Americans.
18. Harry K. Thaw
granted a Jury trial
to teat his sanity.
19. The Arizona battle.
ship, biggest United j. w. Gerard.
States super-dread-
naught, launched at Brooklyn navy
yard.
' JULT.
J. P. Morgan, the banker, shot at
Glen Cove, N. Y., by Frank Holt, a
German college professor.
14. Harry K. Thaw declared sane by an
advisory Jurv in New York city.
14. The state department notified Great
Britain, through Ambassador W. H.
Page, that this country would not
recognise British orders In council as
valid.
Southold, N. Y began the 2T5th an
niversary of its settlement (1640). .
28, Haitian revolutions Invaded the
French legation, dragged out the de
posed president. Gutllaume, and shot
him to death.
Haitian snipers killed 2 United States
marines who were In Port au Prince
protecting foreigners.
SO. Former Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker executed at Sing Sing for
complicity in the murder of Hermann
Rosenthal.
AUGUST.
United States battleships Louisiana
and New Hampshire sailed for Vera
Crux, Mexico, to quell anti-foreign
demonstrations.
11. Heavy shipment of British treasure.
Including $19,000,000 In gold, arrived at
New York. .
Riot In Boston; Italian reservists as
saulted policemen who protected Ger
mans from the mob.
18. National Educational association met
at Oakland, Cal.
Leo Frank, Georgia life convict, forcibly
taken from prison at Mllledgevtlle and
hanged near Marietta, home of his al
leged victim, Mary Phagan.
- Great Britain declared cotton contra
band. 24. Conference of governors met in Bos
ton.
30. Spanish American War Veterans met
at Scranton. Pa.
United States F-4, which sank off
Honolulu March 25, was raised.
SEPTEMBER.
82.000,000 fire on the grain pier In New
port News. Va.
t. 868,000,000 in British gold reached New
York via the American Kinr..
Semicentennial anniversary of the Wash
ington grana review of 18S by 20,000
G. A. R. veterans.
Sons of Veterans' annual encampment
In Washington.
17. Vllhjalmur Stefansson. the nnlor.r
heard from after a silence of 17
months. He was In Banks Land.
In an action near Cape Haltlen, Haiti,
10 Americans were wounded and 40
Haitian rebels killed
87. Gasoline and dynamite exnlonlon In
the business district of Ardmore, Okla.,
killed 55 people and Injured over 100
property loss 8500.000.
fflth annual encampment of the Grand
my ui me nepuoiic opened In Wash
ington. Farmers' National Congress opened at
Omaha
Wireless phone talk was accomplished
between Arlington, Vs.. and Ban Fran
cisco, 8.000 miles.
Speech transmitted by wireless phone
from Arlington, Va, to Honolulu, 4.800
miles.
OCTOBER.
International farm congress opened at
Denver.
National Womas's Christian Temper
ance union met at Seattle. Wash. '
Wireless telephoning accomplished be
tween Arlington, Va, and Paris.
Steamer Hocking sailing under United
States flag seized by a British cruiser
off too port of New York.
MOVEHBER.
Great Britain seized st Saint Lucia the
United States steamer Tennessee.
DECEMBER.
Worlo-s Fair: Panama-Pacific exnost-
tlon closed
iienaance over 17.000.000;
Profits 82.0u0.00g.
Ford's peace mlsstoa set out from
York.
Nee
L Sixty-fourth congress convened.
?,"IT X'M ' disavow the act of
sinking the ocean User Ancona.
. Immigration statistics for lSli showed
'"" oft of arrivals of .early 800
o?lM. " D-o- 1 against tbe arrivals
. Convention: National American Wo
'w"hlg! Ctt"-
J.V "d "" AraerlcaD
JkHentiae caxngres Beet la Washing-
. Convention: Americas Historical seen
etatlem sneeta m Washington.
EHTLY IT IS THE PAPER THAT
World War Campaigns
Movements on Land
and Sea With New
Nations In
Line.
WAR ON THE WATER.
JANUART.
. British battleship Formidable sunk In
the English channel by German sub
marine or a mine; over 600 drowned.
. In a Gorman naval attack on the Eng
lish coast the Oerman cruiser Bluecher
was sunk, with about 700 of her orew.
British cruiser Lion disabled.
FEBRUART.
, 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
nurine- a naval attack In the
German submarine U-J8, torpedoed
British ships Falaba and Agullla In
St. George's channel; 68 passengers
and 70 sailors lost.
APRIL,
w.nph Mtedmer Leon Gambetta tor
pedoed by an Austrian submarine In
the strait or uiraiuo; wj
drowned.
MAT.
The Lusltnnla was torpedoed and
anir nff Kinsale. 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 lives.
British battleship Triumph torpedoed
In the Dardanelles.
British battleship Majestlo sunk by
torpedo in the Dardanelles.
JUNE.
Italian submarine Meduso torpedoed
bv an Austrian submarine.
British admiralty steamer Armenian,
with Americans In her crew, torpe
doed off the British coast. 22 Ameri.
cans lost.
JULT.
Italian cruiser Amalfi sunk by Aus
trian submarine In the. Adriatic sea
AUGUST.
British submarine sank the Turkish
battleship Barbarossa In the sea of
Marmora.
British transport Royal Edward sunk
by an enemy submarine In the Aegean
sea; loss of nearly 1,000 lives.
A German submarine torpedoed the
White Star liner Arablo off Cape
Clear, Ireland; 29 Americans on board.
OCTOBER.
German cruiser Prinz Adalbert sunk
by British submarine; crew of 557
nearly all lost.
NOVEMBER.
Italian liner Ancona sunk by Austrian
submarine In the Mediterranean: 208
lives lost. Including some Americans.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
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JANUART.
The allies began to retreat south of
13.
the Aisne at Soissons, abandoning 8
miles of trenches.
Allies withdrew south of the Alsne,
losing 6,000 prisoners and many guna
MARCH.
Beginning of British attacks at Neuve
14.
10.
Chapelle, France.
12-13. French attacks and German counter
attacks continued at Neuve Chapelle,
with heavy losses.
APRIL.
22. Germans recaptured Hartmannswel
lerkopf, In the Vosgea mountains.
They repulsed an attack by allies
along the Ypres canal with asphyx
iating gas and crossed that harrier to
the west side.
German artillery at Nieuport, Belgium,
bombarded Dunkirk. France, at 22
miles range.
SEPTEMBER.
Great drive of the allies from the
French seacoast to Verdun. Heavy
capture of guns reported and 20,000 un
wounded prieonera German front bro
ken 6 miles In length at Loos, La Bas
ses and Souchez, and 25 miles in the
Champagne.
Allies continued western drive.
NOVEMBER.
80.
18.
Allies held Joint war council In Paris.
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SOUTHERN WAR ZONE. I
FEBRUARY.
8. Turks estimated at 12,000 attacked
British guards along Sues canal south
of Ismailia, Egypt.
81 Allied fleet bombarded Turkish forts
guarding the sea entrance to Constan
tinople. t
APRIL.
X. Allied troops landed on the shore of
the Dardanelles under fire from the
Turkish guna
MAT.
tt Italy made formal proclamation of
war.
. Austrian navy and airships attacked
Italy's coast. Italian troops seised
Austrian territory.
JrME.
I. Italian troops, led
by General Cador
na, forced the im
portant river
Isonso in advance
toward Trieste.
Austria.
8 Julian, captured
Monf alcone, a n
important strate
gic town north
west of Trieste
ADOUST.
I Italy sent an ul
timatum to Tur
key. I Austrtana launch
ed counterattacks
on the Italian Una
at Qorlu.
Photo by Amerlcu
Press AssociaUon,
eral Cadorna.
1 - nrtlllery drove the allied
fro-e.elrwort.onSriCl!
a Bulgaria BobUlaea her anny.
Bt mm TBtwieeue-. .
And Various Minor Events
Battle Front In Poland,
France, Belgium, Aus
tria, Gallipoli, Ser
via and Egypt
..sHAAAfr'
Greece protested against the J
of troops at Salonlki tn defeat w
Austro-German forces under Q.F
von Mackensen Invaded Serni e
garla sent 24 hour ultimatum to&T
Germans recaptured Belgrid. J.
of Servla. T
Bulgaria declared war on Bentil
A general attack by Italian! itth
failed after an all day stnjir l
NOVEMBER. fj
Bulgarian captured Nlsh, tr! ,
way center In Servla. -Germans
and Austrians MDhirj-
irovusu iu t-iuBiiiia, nerve.
DECEMBER.
British defeated by Turks i
dad, Mesopotamia. t
n-.man. .nil Au.trlan.
us, " uapmiifk
aetir. Servia.
Balkans: Allied troops In Or!
oacK on o&ioniKii
a 1 1 1 1 1- www t atmt
RUSSIAN FRONTIER, fc,
t
J
JANUART. fj?'
ft. Russian fore were south of ttyjf
pathian mountains Invading HbJ
28. A lame Ru--fn army u adnj w
on tho Russian border agaJiwpa
nlgsberg, a German fortltied d
East Prussia.
FEBRUARY. '
1 Germans checked In a dMpmb
tack on Russian lines at Bolimci
fore Warsaw. (jttf
T. Germans, by a forced march,
the Russian flank at Johauieitai
East Prussia, fore inn the nemjif,'1
treat back to Russian territory "
9, Germans in RusBia cut tbe rRv
behind the retreating; Kuuiuijli
North of Augustowo the Rusmn x
sorted their positions east o( U'
surian lakes. it A
24. Germans stormed and capturtdfrei
nysz, Poland, an important BiTa
post north of Warsaw. I
MARCH. rfa
22. The Austrian fortress of Prttor (
Galicia, surrendered to the Ba
army after a gallant and pnift i
defense. About 50,000 armed An pi
were among; the trophies. Lr
26. Russians recaptured Prsasnya.
land, north of Warsaw.
APniu S
I. Russians advanced through Bt A
pass, piercing the Austrian a .
the Carpathian jr
MAT. jf
14. Austro-Germana recaptured Jw
on the west bank of San tent,1'
cla. forcing the Russians to itf
the Carpathian roountaina. t
v 1
1'
JUNS.
t Germans, led by
General von
Mackensen, re
captured Przem
yal, Gallcla,
which the Rus
sians had occu
pied March 22,
after a siege of
20 days.
B. Lem berg, Gall
cia, recaptured
by Austrlanaaf t
er ten months'
occupation by
Russians.
fir
General TOtiL
JULT.
Germans again
captured te post of Pm"
miles north of Warsaw. E
Austrians captured Badom, Hp
south of Warsaw.
AUOUST. t'
German army" captured Wars'
campaign which lasted wl
months. The Russian grrl
treated east of the Vistula. fi
General von Mackenaen'i
troope captured Sletll'
Warsaw-Moscow railway. .
Novo Georglvak, the tctm
Russian fortress In Polund, n
garrison, estimated at from
85,000 men, captured by Gew
Beseler German army.
BEPTBMBFIR. ? .
Germans captured GrodDB
vanced on Riga. F i
NOVBMBBB. ' it V
Germans abandoned Import J()0
tions In front of Riga - guii;
.
WWiTat I.
I MINOR WAR EVEl,
Ot 4.Mrin84 A-4- 4 H,1
JANUART.
The German government
orit - '
seizure of private storn
wheat and flour.
mnnuT,
'1
.1 mi
Germany Informed the rj
! h
that she would Insist on
the war none in the Eds1W"
MARCH.
. v.. faitt!
England announceo "-u
top all ships to and fres im
ports of Germany. v
The German cruiser "res,
survived the battle of 'w,
lands, sunk In battle ''
fleet near San Juan Ferns"
off Chill. J
Great Britain Issued a sweep g
In council cutting off ,
with Germany and refusal K
the war son blockade. t'
nut. "
Germany replied to note of Bf
States (June 10), prom"
cnard Americana under tw -
, -Anaorr.
Great Britain sent notes
Statea upholding her bo
Berlin Informed washlnlt"
killing of Americans "p
waa not intentional.
U.
oeftembs
L German ambaasador
SMS..
liners would not be son!
tines without warning J
Hated or attempted
German airships rawea
Jurtng a, persona and WW 0
OCTOBM. j
Germany disavowed the
Arable and agreed to pW "T
EHrtw.a biiiHl and '
i by Zeppena ,
J
n. London recruiting a&rLc
Tolnnteera ender tbe U
vhica waa to end Dee.
KA1C OTHE)SrniST B
IS HEAD. JT C0ST8 KO MOEE T