The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

|K M" **/' "< ; s •< • ^ ,-:.- THE McHEXRY PLAINDEALER, McHENRY, IIX. * * <: - i * " ' • * V>- v / * * " 3 it®. ;?• ' : . PRHCML EVENTS M TURD YEAR OF THE WAR '•%!, Aug. 1, 1916.--Merchantman Deutschland leaves Baltimore home- Ward hound oo first trip. Somme bat­ tle continues. Russians in heavy bat- tic after crossing Stokhod river, v August 2.--Russians within ten Idles of Korel. tAugust 3.--French recapture part of Fieury, near Verdun. Sir Roger Ossemeut hanged in London for par­ ticipation in Irish revolt. August 4.--French take Thiaumont, #ear Verdun. ^ August §.--British overwhelm Turks Roman!, near Sues canal. August 8.--Russians cross rtTers -Bereth and Graberka and trice six Til­ lages froin Austrian*., August 8.--Italians take Gorisla bridgehead and capture 10,000 pris­ oners. Russian General Letchltzky takes two towns and many villages. ^ , August 9.--Gorieia falls to Italians to great offensive. Austrians near nislau withdraw on wide front. 'August 10.--Russians take Stanislau. ^ -August 11.--Allies seize Doiran in IBnllcati drive. August 13.--Austrians evacuate line of the Strypa river. August 14.--Russians capture Tusto- by. i August 15.--Russians take Jablon- ltea, near Carpathian pass. August 16.--Allies take three miles Of trenches near the Somme. An­ nounced Russians have taken 358,000 prisoners since/June 4, 1916, when drive began. August 18.--Russians advance three Wiles into Hungary. August 20.--British advance on 11- mile front at Thiepval, near Somme river. Allies attack on 150-mile front in Balkans. Two British light cruis­ ers and one or two German U-boats sunk in North Sea battle. August 22.--Announced big Russian contingent has lauded at Salonikl. August 23.--The Deutschland reach­ es Bremen. August 24.--Russians recapture Jtf ush, Armenia. August 27.--Roumania declares war Ml Teutons and invades Transylvania. Italy formally declares war on Ger­ many. August 29.--Kaiser makes Von Hin- deuhurg chief of staff of atl German armies in place of Von Falkenhayn. August 31.--Roumanians cross Dan «|>e aud occupy Rustchuk, Bulgaria. Jkuslrians fall back in Transylvania. : September 2.--Roumanians, far in Transylvania, take Helrmannstadt. Zeppelins raid London and one is brought down in flames. September 3.--Allies take three vll lages on Somme. Roumanians capture ^wOrsova, Austria. Germans and Bul- gars invade the Dobrudja September 4.--French take five more villages on Souime; allies' prisoners In two days, 6,000. September 6.--Teutons take Danube dty of Tartukai and 20,000 Rouma­ nians. September 8.--Roumanians and Rus titans drive foe back a little in Do­ brudja. September 10.--Teutons take Rou­ manian fortress of Sllistrla. September 11.--British drive across Struma river in Balkans. September 12.--Allies capture three- mile Hue on Somme. Roumanians over­ whelmed In Dobrudja. ... September 15.--British take Ger­ man Somme positions on six-mile front. Use "tanks" for first time in warfare. September 18.--Allies take Fiorina, Macedonia. September 19.--Serbs flight their way Hack onto tbeir own soil. September 21.--Russians and Rou inunia ns anoouuee they have thrown back the luvaders in Dobrudja. September 22.--Announced allies SSok 55,800 prisoners in Somme battle between July 1 and September 18. September 23.--Roumanians In Do­ brudja driven back in disorder. Zep- < (Melius Invade England; one burned, an­ other captured. Septeml>er 25.--Allies advance along 15-mile front on Somme. Venlzelos leaves Ajthens to lead revolt against King Constantine. September 26.--Allies take Combles and Thiepval in Somme battle. September 30.--Von Falkenhayn routs Roumanians at Hermannstadt, Transylvania. October I.---A Roumanian army grossed the Danube. .October 2.--Another Zeppelin shot •down near London. v October 4.--Mackensen drives Rou­ manian invaders of Bulgaria back to­ ward Danube. October 5.--Roumanians flee across the Danube. Serbs cross Cerna river tn drive on Monastir. v October 7.--German submarine U-53 visits Newport, R. I., on mysterious mission. Sinks five ships off Narra- gansett Light night of October 7-8. October 8.--Roumanians driven back to Transylvauia frontier. October 10.--Roumanians in rout flee through mountafh passes. October 11.--Greece turns over her fleet to France on allies' demand. Ital­ ians, resuming Garso drive, take 5,- 000 prisoners. October 22.--Roumanians In Do­ brudja retreat hastily. , October 23.--Teutons occupy Con- atanza, principal Roumanian seaport. <*erraaus throw Russians back across Narayuvka river. October 24.--French take S£00 pris­ oners at Verdun. &AVED BY BOOK OF SERMONS Canadian Soidier Still Living Because He Had Volume in Pocket and Was Not Reading It. From the trenches on the western front by way of Canada comes the •story of a soldier's narrow escape from death and the levity displayed by a comrade, illustrating how viewpoints cluujge when men get on the filing {Wt. of an Alberta regiment October 25.--Roumanian city of Cer- navoda falls. Defenders blow up great bridge across Danube. , October 26.--Li^ht • craft clash in English channel. Six British drift-net boats, a transport and a destroyer and one German destroyer sunk. November 1.--Deutschland reaches New London, Conu., on second trans- Atlantic trip with cargo worth $10,- 000.000. U-53 arrives in a German port ; November 2.--Germans evacuate Fort Vaux, at Verdun. Italians take 4,731 in new offensive. November 3.--Italians take 3.496 more prisoners. November 5.--Central powers pro­ claim kingdom of Poland. Italians announce, have taken 40,365 Austrians since fall of Gorlzia. November ft.--Teutons driven back twelve miles in Dobrudja. November 13.--British advance north of Ancre; take 3,300 prisoners. November 15.--England announces food controller will be appointed. November 17.--News received of wholesale deportations of Belgians for forced labor in Germany. November 19.--Allies take Monastir, Macedonia. November 21.--Emperor Francis Jo­ seph of Austria dies and Charles Fran­ cis becomes ruler. Teutons take Crai­ ova in drive on western Roumania. November 23.--Russian dreadnaught Imperatrita Maria snnk by internal ex­ plosion ; 200 killed. November 24.--Teutons capture Tur- nu-Severln and Orsova from Rouma­ nians. ^ November 25.--Teutons cross Alt river and sweep rapidly through Rou­ mania. November 26.--Venirelos party de­ clares war on Germany and Bulgaria. Teutons invading Roumania from north and south form junction. November 27.--Teutons take Alex­ andria, Roumania. Zeppelins raid England; two downed by gunfire. November 29.--Beatty replaces JelH- coe in command of British fleet. December 2.--French and * Greeks clash in Athens streets. Teutons win great battle for Bucharest. December 6.--Bucharest falls. December 7.--Lloyd George becomes premier of Great Britain. December 8. -- Twenty-seven thou­ sand Roumanians surrender. December 10.--Deutschland arrives home. December 12.--Germany announces she is ready for peace parleys. December 14.--Russia officially re­ buffs German peace offer. December 15.--French under Nivelle take 9,000 prisoners on seven-mile front at Verdun. Nivelle then leaves to become commander in chief of all France's home armies. Buzcu and all Wallachia lost to Roumanians. December 18.---Russian troops -take over whole Roumanian front. ' December 19.--Lloyd George tells commons Germans must make resti­ tution and reparation to get peace. December 20.--Wilson sends notes to both sides in war asking their aims. December 24.--Switzerland officially indorses Wilson's plea for statement of war aims. December 25.--Teutons take 0,000 Russians In Romania. December 26.--Germany replies to Wilson, suggesting peace conference, but not stating own war alms or terms of peace. December 30.--Allies in reply to Ger­ man peace proposal call offer empty and Insincere and refuse conference. December 31.--King Constantine of Greece thanks President Wilson for his note to the belligerents. January 4, 1917.--British transport Icernia sunk by U-boat in Mediterra­ nean : 150 lost. January 5.--Ho|use of representa­ tives rules committee begins investiga­ tion of Wall street "leak" of Wilson peace note news. January 6.--Russians retreat across Sereth river in Roumania. January 8.--Russians launch offen­ sive near Riga. January 11.--Allies in reply to Wil­ son note outline alms, but refuse to parley with an unbeaten Germany. January 17.--Learn German raider Moewe has sunk 21 ships and seized three others in South Atlantic. En­ tente, in supplementary note to Wilson, amplifies war aims. January 19.--British steamer Yar- rowdale, Moewe's prize, reaches a German port with 409 prisoners. January 22. -- Wilson makes his "peace without victory" address in seu- ate. demanding United „States enter world league at close of war. January 24.--After Initial successes, Russians are forced back near Riga. January 25.--Mine sinks British aux­ iliary cruiser Laurentic off Irish coast. January Sl.-^-Germany declares ruth­ less submarine war, revoking all pledges to the United States. February 3.--United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. President Wilson In address to senate outlines crisis. United States seizes interned German warships. February 4.--Wilson asks neutrals to break with Germany. United States reserve fleet ordered in service. February 5.--Announced American seaman was killed when German sub­ marine shelled lifeboat of British steamer Eavestone. February 6.--Learned Germany is holding United States Ambassador Ge­ rard. February 7.--British liner Califor­ nia, one American aboard, sunk, un­ warned, off Ireland; 41 lives lost. Spain calls new U-boat decree unlaw­ ful. February 8.--Germany tries to get Ambassador Gerard to sign a paper re­ affirming Prussian treaties with the United States, but he refuses. February 10.--Gerard finally allowed to leave Berlin. February 12.--Announced officially had a pious upbringing in his early home In Scotland, and his religious in­ clinations did not desert him when his family settled on a farm iq western Canada. All through the war he has carried "Spurgeon's Sermons" in his breast pocket, aud occasionally he does some preaching, with his comrades in. arms as the congregation. Private G of the same regiment lacked the upbringing and the book of sermons, but possesses a sense of humor. The two were in a group resting and smoking when a' shot from Germany has asked parley with Unit­ ed States through Swiss minister at Washington and been snubbed/ Ger­ many masses five army corps to over­ awe Holland. February 13.--British hem In Turks at Kut-el-Amara, "Mesopotamia. February 15. -- Germany releases American Yarrowdale prisoners. February 17.--Learn German em­ bassy gave orders for crippling of Ger­ man merchantmen here before publica­ tion of ruthless warfare note. February 20.--Austria backs Ger­ many in ruthless warfare. - Food riots In New York, probably stirred up by German agents. February 22.--Germany torpedoes seven Dutch ships leaving Falmouth In violation of her pledge. February 23.--British stringently re­ strict Imports to fight submarine war. February 25.--Germans make "stra­ tegic" retirement on Ancre front. La- conla, British ship, sunk unwarned off Ireland; two American women killed. February 26.--President asks con­ gress for authority to arm American merchantcraft. * British capture Kut- el-Amara. February 28.--Germany's plot to ally Mexico and Japan with her against the United States and her promise of three American states to Mexico re­ vealed. March 1.--President Wilson con­ firms story of German attempt to Inr cite Mexico and Japan. Tokyo de­ nounces plot. Pause passes bill, to arm ships, 403 to 13. March 3.--Russians take Hamadan, Persia, from Turks. March 4 -- President Wilson de­ nounces "willful men" in senate who filibustered against armed ship bill, killing it by ending of administra­ tion term. British take over 25-mile Somme front from French. President takes oath of office for seoond term. March 6.--President's advisers tell him he has power to arm ships with­ out action of congress. March 7.--Berlin admits sending In­ tercepted Zimmermann note to Mex­ ico. March 9.--President calls extra con­ gress session for April 16. j March 11.--British capture Bagdad. Russian revolution starts. Petrograd troops desert government. March 12.--German U-boat shells and sinks United States merchant ship Algonquin without warning. March 14.--China breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. March 15.--Czar abdicates. March 16.--Grand Duke Michael of Russia renounces throne, bringing Romanoff dynasty to an end. Duma in control. _ ^ t March 17.--GerrrfiSns beglii big re­ treat on west front. Announced vote of Russian people will decide form of government. March 18.--News received of sink­ ing of American ships City of Mem­ phis. Illinois and Vlgllancla by U- boats; 22 men missing. March 21.--Wilson calls on congress to meet April 2 Instead of April 16. Twenty lost when United States tanker Healdton, bound for Holland, is sunk by U-boat In North sea. March 25.--President orders partial mobilization of National Guard to pro­ tect property from German plotters. Navy ordered to get ready. March 27.--Fifteen thousand more National Guardsmen called out. April 3.--Wilson asks declaration of state of war by congress. Ger­ mans drive Russians across Stokhod river, taking a large number of pris­ oners. April 4.--Senate passes war resolu­ tion, 82 to 6. April 5.--House passes war resolu­ tion 373 to 50. April 6.--President signs congress resolution and proclaims state of war. Government takes over German liners. April 7.--Cuba declares war on Ger­ many. April 9.--Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. British storm Vlmy Ridge, taking 6,000 prisoners on first day of battle. Wilson joins fight to raise new armies by universal service prin­ ciple. April 10.--British prisoners at Vlmy reach 11,000. Brazil breaks diplo­ matic relations with Germany, *Brlt- ish advance 50 miles beyond Bagdad. April 11.--Herbert C. Hobver, ac­ cepts offer to direct food supplies of United States. April 13.--British cut into Hlnden- burg line. President defines war zone off coast. April 14.--House passes seven bil­ lion war loan bill. April 15.--Wilson calls on nation to support him in war. April 16.--French In 25-mile of­ fensive toward the "Ladles, Roard" and In Champagne tuke 10,000 prisoners first day. April 17.--Big war credlt passes sen­ ate. German wounded die when U-boats sink British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfrano without warning. April 18.--French £rtsouers in new offensive total 17,000. April 19.--Fight is started for pro­ hibition during war. American freight­ er Mongolia finks a U-boat--the first American victory of the war. April 20.--In confused night battle of destroyers in English Channel Brit­ ish and German vessels lock, and crews fight with cutlasses. April 21.--Balfour commission from Great Britain reaches United States. April 24.--French commission ar­ rives in United States. April 25.--U-boats sink 64 British vessels in week, it is announced, caus­ ing alarm in Britain. Wilscm tells Bal­ four United States wHl not make a separate peace. United States makes first foreign war loan--$200,000,000 to Great Britain. April 28.--House votes conscription army bill, 397 to 24, and senate, 81 to a German sniper hit Private Mac In the breast, the bullet being deflected by the book. Fearing that Mac was about to im­ prove the occasion, G "beat him to it and in a fair imitation of his friend's best preaching manner started in: "Oh, dear friends, what a blessed thing it was that our dear brother wasn't a-reading of his book of ser­ mons--as he ought to have been In­ stead of engaging in worldly conver­ sation with sinful soldier men. For if dear Brother Mac had been a-readlcg 8. Guatemala breaks off relations with Germany. ~ s' April 29.--Petaln chosen to lead French armies in place of Nivelle. Joffre asks United Stabs army in France without delay. May 2.--Announce first Liberty Loan bond issue will be $2,000,000,000. Sec­ retary of Siate Lansing warns U-boat sinkings are serious. May 2.--Russians abandon Mush, Armenia, to the Turks. May 3.--News received of mistreat­ ment of Jews in Palestine by Turks. May 4.--French take Craonne from Germans. May 6.--French in second battle of the Aisne take 6,100 prisoners. May 7.--Orders given to raise 11,000 engineers here for work in France. May 10.--Critical situation in Rus­ sia and civil war is feared. May 14.--Great Britain turns over to United States 1,024,500 tons of ship­ ping building for her here. May 15.--New Italian offensive be­ gins. May 16.--Announced squadron of American destroyers is assisting the British; U-boat losses sink to 26 in week. May 18.--President proclaims con­ scription law, calling on 10,000,000 men, aged twenty-one to thirty-one years, to register June 5. Italians announce 6,432 prisoners. May 25.--Italy launches renewed Corso offensive, taking 9,000 prisoners first day. German airplanes kill 76 persons in Dover and Folkestone. May 26.--Germany auuounces she will sink hospital ships without warning unless they obey certain strict rules about the courses they take. An­ nounced Italy has captured 22,414 Aus­ trians since May 14. June 3.--General Chang Hstm named dictator by royalists 6f China. June 5.--United States registers for the army draft without disorder. General Bruslloff made head of Rus­ sian armies. June 7.--British blow up Messlnes ridge; explosion heard in London; 5.000 prisoners taken on first day of offensive. June 8.--General Pershing, com­ mander of American expedition, ar­ rives in England. Secretary of War Baker plans for 100,000 American air­ planes. One hundred American avia­ tors arrive in France. June 9.--Wilson tells Russia what United States Is fighting for. Japan offended by United States note urg­ ing China to maintain order. Jut\e 11.--Lord Northcllffe, famous | publisher, arrives to co-ordinate Brit­ ish missions in United States. June 12.--King Constantine of Greece abdicates In favor of his sec­ ond son, Alexander, at command of the allies. June 13.--In- greatest air raid so far on London, 153 are killed and 430 in­ jured. Pershing reaches Paris. Eiihu Root and American mission In Pe­ trograd. June 15.--Liberty loan oversub­ scribed. Great Britain frees all the Irish rebels. June 17.--Doctor Ivers, who wrote Germany's official reply to the Bel­ gian atrocity charges, is sentenced to nine months' Imprisonment In Berlin for extorting $30,000 from the mother of a soldier by threats; evidence shows he is a chronic drunkard and morphine fiend. Duma demands imme­ diate offensive by Russian troops. June 19.--United States Admiral Sims put in command of allied fleet off Ireland. June" 22.--Announced Lilierty loan subscriptions total $3,035,220,850. June 25.--American Red-Cross cam­ paign closes, with subscriptions over .the hundred million dollars sought. June 26.--Official Mesopotamian re­ port scores British civil and military leaders. Canadians within one mile of Lens, great French coal center. June 27.--Arrival of first United States army in France announced. June 28.--Brazil joins in war by an­ nulling her decree of neutrality be­ tween the entente nations and Ger­ many. June 29.--Greece breaks diplomatic relations with the central powers. June 30.--Russians begin big offen­ sive In Galicia. War Minister Ke- rensky leads attack. HaiR gains mile on four-mile front before Lens. July 1.--Washington announces United States is ready to equip army of 2,000.000. July 2.--Russian prisoners counted in-her offensive number 10,273. Chin­ ese empire re-established. July 3.--Government tells of two submarine attacks on transports bear­ ing Pershing's men; one U-boat sunk. Russia aunounces 6,000 more prison­ ers. Germans make vain five-mile of­ fensive at Verdun. July 4.--Eleven killed in Gerrtan air raid on Harwich. July 5.--Republicans and monarch­ ists battle 35 miles from Peking. July 6.--Leaders of German spy sys­ tem In United States arrested. July 7.--Twenty-two German Gotha airplanes, mounting four guns each, raid London, killing 43 and injuring 197. July 8.--Wilson orders export em­ bargo on food, fuel and many other things to prevent supplies reaching. Germany. British foreign office states German crops this summer will not be above 40 per cent of normal. United States shipping board -states expects to build 5,000.000 to 6,000.000 tons in 18 months, instead of the 2,500,000 to 3,000.000 originally aimed at. July 9.--British dreadnaught Van­ guard blown up; all but two aboard killed. July 10.--Germans in sudden drive along sea coast beat British back to Yser river and capture 1,250 men. Crisis over electoral reforms and war aims in Germany. Russians take Hallcz, Galicia. of his book of sermons, where, oh, where, my dear friends, would Brother Mac (priceless old thing) have been then?" July 11.--Russians seize town of Kalusz. , July 12.---Widespread labor disorders in West caused by Industrial Workers of the World; German agents suspect­ ed. Chang Hsun, leader of Chinese monarchists, flies to Dutch legation in Peking., July 13.--British bring down 30 Ger­ man airplanes on west front in big­ gest air battie so far. July 14.--Chancellor Beffcmann-Holl- weg resigned and Dr. G. E. Michaells succeeded him. Germans took French posts south of Courcy. House passed $640,000,000 aviation bill. July 15. -- French took important hills positions from Germans south' of Reims. July 16.--Russians took Lodsiany from Austrians, but evacuated Kalusz. July 17. -- French took German trenches near Melancourt. Three members of Russian cabinet resigned; riots in Petrograd suppressed. Shake- up in British cabinet. July 18.--Increased activity on Rou­ manian front. Russians took part of Novica. July 19.-'--Great German attack be­ tween Craonne and Hurtebtse partly successful. Chancellor Michaells de­ clared for submarine warfare. Rus­ sians driven back in Vilria region. Teu­ tons make advances In Galicia. July 20.--Draft for American Na­ tional army held. Premier Lvoff of Russia succeeded by Kerensky. Ger­ many called 2,000,000 of her youngest men to the colors, July 21.--Senate passed food control and aviation bills. Russians In disor­ derly retreat, burning villages. July 22.--German aviators raided England, killing 11 in coast towns, but were driven away from London. Slam declared state of war with Germany and Austria-Hungary. July 23.--Kerensky given absolute powers as dictator of Russia. Ger­ mans lost heavily in attacks along the Chemln des Dames. July 24--Goethals, Denman and White out of shipping board; Rear Ad­ miral Capps, E. N. Hurley and Bain- Pinsk--high tide in Invasion af Rusma. Sept ember 24-25,--Allies in drive in France capture 25,000. October 5.--Allies land at SalonikL October 9.--Germans occupy. Bel­ grade. October 10.--Bulgaria attacks Ser- bia. December 9.--Germany announces Serbia is entirely conquered. I>ecember 19.--Allies evacuate Gal- llpoli. February 14.1916.--Russians capture Erzeruir, Turkey. February 23.--Germans open Verdun offensive. April 18.--Russians take Trebizond, Turkey. April 24.--Irish revolt In Dublin. April 28.--British besieged in Kut-el- Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 2$0.--Battle of Jutland; 14 Brit­ ish and 18 German warships sunk. June 5.--Lord Kitchener drowned when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed north of Scotland. June 17.--Russians retake Czerno- Witz, capital of Bukowlna, in great of­ fensive. June 20.--Arabs rebel from Turkey, capture Mecca; new kingdom estab­ lished. June 27.---British and French la great drive In west. July 9.--Submarine merchantman Deutschland reaches Baltimore. July 27.--Russians retake Brody, northern Galicia. August 9.--Italians take Gorisia. July 10.--Russians take Stanislas Galicia. August 28.--Roumania enters war on side of the entente, and Invades Tran­ sylvania. September 6.--Germany begins great squeeze on Roumania. November 10.--First great air bat­ tle of world's history; 67 British, French and German airplanes brought down. December 5.--Teutons talcs1 Bu­ charest. December 11.--Germany openly prof­ fers peace to her enemies. December 21. -- President Wilson •AafafooA*-* RAMMED1 BY* STEAM* ER MANAMA WHILE WAITING ^ FOR SAILING ORPER^ f * ' ; •>y% 1,400 SOLDIERS MC 3ME0 bridge Colby succeeded them. Mc- i asks both sides to define their war Adoo asked congress for $5,"000,000,000 more for war. Russians evacuated Stanislau, their whole line periled. French defeated Germans on Craonne front. July 25--Division of traitrous Rus­ sian troops blown to pieces by own artillery as part of General KornilofTs measures to restore order. Lenlne, Russian pacifist agitator, captured af­ ter greatest man hunt Russia ever knew. June 28, 1914.--Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria's throne, and wife assassinated at Serajavo, Bosnia, by Slav student, Prlncip, giv­ ing the pretext for war. July 23.--Austria delivers famous ultimatum to Serbia, charging assas­ sination plot was hatched on Serb soli. July 28.--Serbia having agreed to all Austria demands save one, Austria declares war. August 1.--Germany declares war on Russia. August 3.--Germany declares war on France and Invades Belgium. August 4.--Great Britain declares a state of war by act of Germany. August 21-24--Battle of Mous-Char- lerol; Germans victorious. August 23.--Japan at war with Ger­ many. August 27.--Germans burn Leuvain, Belgium. August 29.--Russians crushed in battle near .Tannenburg, Prussia. < September 5-10.--Germans turned back by French and British in the battle of the Marne. September 12.--Battle of the Alsne begins. October 9.--Germans capture Ant­ werp. October 21-31*--First battle of Ypres. October 80.--Russia declares war on Turkey. November 1.--Germans sink Ad­ miral Cradiock's British fleet off Chill. November 10-12.--Second battle at Ypres. December 1.--German General De Wet captured, ending South African < revolt. December ,5.--Serbians defeat Aus­ trians. - December 8.--British sink German fleet off Falkland Islands. January 24, 1915.--Naval battle In North sea; German cruiser Bluecher sunk. , February 8.--Russians suffer sec­ ond greut defeat in East Prussia. February 17.--Germans begin sub­ marine blockade, despite American protest. March 22.--Russians take Przemysl, Galicia after long siege. April 22.--Gas first used In war by Germans at Ypres. ' April 25.--Allies land at Darda­ nelles. alms. January 17, 1917.--News received German cruiser Moewe has taken 24 ships In South Atlantic. January 22.--Wilson asking "peace without victory," demands United States enter world league at close of war. January 31,T-Germany declares ruth­ less submarine warfare on all ships, whatever nationality. In the war zones., February 3.--United States severs ( diplomatic relations with Germany. February 26.--President asks con­ gress for authority to arm all Ameri­ can vessels. February 26.--British capture Kut- el-Amara. February 28,--Zimmermann note suggesting alliance of Mexico and Japan with Germany against United States made public. March 11.--British capture Bagdad. March 11.--Russian revolution starts. March 15.--Czar abdicates. March 17.--Germans begin big "strategic retirement" on west front. April 3.--Wilson asks cOngress to declare a state of war with Germany. April 6.--President signs congress resolution proclaiming war. April 7.--Cuba declares war on .Get* many. April 9.--Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. April 9,--British storm Vlmy Ridge. April 10.--Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. April 16.--French in great offensive near Aisne river. April 19.--American freighter Mon­ golia sinks a submarine, this being the first American victory of the war. April 28.--Both houses of congress pass selective draft army bill. May 15.4-Big Italian offensive in Carso begins. June 3.--Chinese royalists name Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist plot. June 5.--Americans register for army draft without disorder. June 7.--British blow up Messines ridge; explosion heard in London. June 8.--General Pershing reaches England. June 12--King Constantine of Greece abdicates; nation prepares to join allies. June 13.--153 killed, 430 injured in ' London by German airplane raid. June 15.--United States Liberty Loan closes, with billion oversub­ scription. June 27.--Announce arrival of first American army In France. June 28.--Brazil joins In war. June 30.--Russians begin big offen­ sive in Galicia led by War Minister Kerensky In person. July 2.--Chinese empire declared re­ established ; republicans prepare to re­ sist. July 7.--Twenty-two German air­ planes of immense new type kill 43, Injure 197, in London. July 8.--Wilson orders export em­ bargo. July 12.--Chinese empire falls; Chang Hsun flees to Dutch legation in Mew Are Taken Off by Other VeeeetS-. and Safely Landed--Craft Kept * Afloat and Tlsksiii'lp^i^/j'-::: Dock. i An Atlantic Port, Aug. 1.--The Sara­ toga, an American transport at anchor, waiting sailing orders, was rammed on Monday by the American steamer Panr ama, inbound here. -- • A deep hole in the transport's port , quarer extending from below the wa» ter line to the rail resulted from th* collision. The captain of the steamer^ which did the damage held the bow of his ship tight against the transport effectually blocking the wound. In this position he kept his vessel ujtitii all ofj(fs board the transuport were taken off. More than a dozen vessels, including an American cruiser, were in the resfc| 'cuing f!e«»t. A number of them sur­ rounded the transport after the other' steamship drew away and supported* It until it reached shallow waters, twn' miles distant. Meanwhile 1,400 soldiers were safe­ ly taken off in lifeboats or by tugs, an<| other cmft in. the harbor, which ra*' sponded to distress signals. So far as is known, no one was in­ jured. The Saratoga is a former Ward lin# steamer. The Panama belongs to the Panama Railroad Steamship line. An American liner, the steamship State of New York, and a United States destroyer hurried to the assist* ance of the transport the moment I® signaled it was in distress. The Sam-! toga began to list almost Immediately, and was obviously In a sinking condi­ tion. The Saratoga was kept afloat and' finally was warped in to a dock and; made fhst. May 4.--Beginning Of great German Peking. Cheap and Go^dv Some of the best foods are. the cheapest. There are carrots, salsify, parsnips, lettuce and such stuff. They have not advanced in price very much, and they are the best food that grows, says the Columbus (O.)- State- Journal. Carrots have the rarest combination of food qualities of anything - that offensive against Russia. May 7.--Lusitania sunk unwarned by U-boat; 1,000 die, of whom more than 100 are Americans. May 22.--Italy declares war on Aus­ tria. June 2.--Teutons retake Przemysl. August 5.--Germans capture War- September 1.--Germany promises United States to sink no more liners without Warning. September 8.--Czar succeeds Grand Duke Nicholas in command of Russian armies. September 15.--Germans capture i grows. It Is so healthful that it is said a steady (llBt of it will cure many distempers. Parsnips are cheap. goodr wholesome. Anybody who doesn t like the taste of a parsnip has his palate put in wrong. Lettuce is cheap and a lettuce sandwich Is royal food. Anyone who starves while these things are on the market, to be bought for a few cents, has not much of a claim on life. There is more health in them than in porterhouse steak or oyster cocktails. Some people affect to think they are a low-brow food; but July 13.--In biggest air battle so far British claim downing of 30 German planes on west front. July 14.--Von Bethmann-Hollweg, German imperial chancellor, resigns and the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg Michaells in his place. July 19.--Russians in Galicia mu­ tiny and are routed by Germans. July 20.--Draft for American Na­ tional army held. July 20.--Premier Lvoff of Russia resigns and Kerensky succeeds him. July 21.--United States senate passes food control aud $640,000,000 aviation bills. it might be said in retort that they are low-browed people who think so. Live on carrots for a week and you win the prize offered for the best song on Ohio. ! : HARRISON G. OTIS IS DEAD Los Angeles Publisher Was a Veteran of Two Wars--Plant Was " ,"^4 Dynamited* Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 1.--Gen* ' J pnrrlson Gray Otis, president and gen» ; S® eral manager of the Los Angeles Times, died here on Monday at tht V home of his son-in-law, Harry Chand^' 7:1 ler. Heart trouble was said to havn : caused his death. General Otis, a vet- C eran of two wars--the Civil and Span* ish-American--came of a long line of. \ military and statesmanship ancestry. , - General Otis was eighty years old. his birth having occurred on a Wasfclap ton county (O.) farm, February 10, i 1837. On October 10, 1910, his build­ ing and printing plant was dynamited and 20 of his workmen killed. John " j J. McXainara and his brother, JamsS R„ were pla«'eid on trial for the murder. James pleaded guilty to murder and It now serving a life sentence. John J. was given a 14-year sentence. General "• Otis acquired a large fortune, his in* | terests aside from publishing being e*» J tensive. X : 1 • t* ';«• f CHICAGO RAIL STRIKE 1 ' Switchmen Return to Work Aftsfr. Patriotic Appeal by Govern- . merit Agents. ^ Chicago. Aug. 1.--The 2,500 switch­ men belonging to the Brotherhood oi Railway Trainmen, who struck Friday because the brotherhood was not at' lowed to dictate appointment of yard- masters, returned to work Monday, after a settlement in which they wus a partial victory. The patriotic appeal of government agents, in which w«n- pointed out the. necessity of quick transportation of troops and war sup- . plies, caused both sides to yield. Un­ der the terms of settlement yardman; ters are to be employed by a board consisting of seven brotherhood offt dais and the mnnagers' conferentft committee, representing the railroads Strikers returning to work lose their seniority rights. WINS FIGHT FOR HOOVER Conferees on Food Bill Agree to tin President's Demand for One- * Man Rule. ---- Washington, Aug. L--Conferees cm the food bill on Monday agreed fen President Wilsou's demand for ow food administrator instead of a board of three as propose*^ by the senate*. The individual will not be subject t» confirmation. The senate coufereea accepted the house provision. Cham­ berlain,"^Smith of South Carolina. Ken- yon and Warren so voting. Gore, Smith of Georgia and Page stood <Mt for a three-member board. At Last! "There is only one thing In this wjur that gives me any comfort,** remarked. Mr, Cumrox. "What's that?" "At last I am permitted to come right out in public and say I -don't approve of Wagner aipera." * * Standard Oil Man Shot. - : Oakland. Cal., Aug. 1.--D. G. 8es» "-V field, former president and director of the California 'Standard Oil company, 1 was found dead with a bulet wound in his head and a revolver by his sWft ' ^ He had been ill for some time. •Negro Soldiers in Big Riot. Waco. Tex.. Aug. L--Withdrawal at colored soldiers ffom guard duty ,? Camp MacArthur was demanded bf --"-S Waco citizens following riots iu whlct^ several white men were injured an# : ,5®r William Jones was killed. ^1 Faces Treason Charge. Omaha. Neb.. Aug. 1.--Daniel Waft* lace, alleged deserted from the Britisi army, was arrestee! In Davenport? la,, because of circulating literature. 11* will be taken before the grand Juirjf and tried for treason. light U. S. Soldiers Saved. 'Terre Haute. Iu«i.. Au*i. 1.--A Uiit* ed States army balloon etu-ryia** eight Officers and men from St. Louis lamfc ed ou a farm. The men said the#- found it neeessafjfe to land becswse <£| rents iu the bag. -5;-, ,-1.