June 21 Official statement that American forces
hold 39 miles of
French
front in six sectors.
June 27 British hospital ship “Llandovery
Castle” is torpedoed off
Irish
coast with loss of 234 lives. Only 24 survived.
July 10 Italians and French take Berat in Albania.
July 13 Czecho-Slovak troops occupy Irkutsk in Siberia.
July 15-18 Anglo-American forces occupy strategic
positions on the Murman
Coast
in northwestern Russia.
July 15-18 Fifth German drive extends three miles
south of the Marne, but
east
of Rheims makes no gain.
July 16 Ex-Czar Nicholas executed by Bolshevik authorities.
July 18- Second battle of the Marne, beginning
with Foch’s
Aug. 4 counter-offensive between Soissons and
Chateau-Thierry. French
and
Americans drive the Germans back from the Marne
nearly
to
the Aisne.
July 22 Honduras declares war on Germany.
July 27 American troops arrive on the Italian front.
July 31 President Wilson takes over telegraph and telephone systems.
Aug. 2 Allies occupy Archangel, in northern Russia.
Aug. 8- Allies attack successfully near Montdidier,
and continue the
Sept. drive until the Germans are back at the
Hindenburg line,
giving
up practically all the ground they had gained this
year.
Aug. 15 American troops land in eastern Siberia.
Sept. 3 The United States recognizes the Czecho-Slovak government.
Sept. 12-13 Americans take the St. Mihiel salient near Metz.
Sept. 15 Allied army under Gen. D’Esperey
begins campaign against
Bulgarians.
Sept. 16 President Wilson receives an Austrian
proposal for a peace
conference,
and refuses it.
Sept. 22 Great victory of British and Arabs over Turks in Palestine.
Sept. 26 Americans begin a drive in the Meuse valley.
Sept. 30 Bulgaria withdraws from the war.
Oct. 1 St. Quentin (on the Hindenburg line) taken by the French.
Oct. 1 Damascus captured by the British.
Oct. 3 King Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicates.
Oct. 3 Lens taken by the British.
Oct. 4 Germany asks President Wilson for an
armistice and peace
negotiations
(page 150); other notes Oct. 12, 20, etc.;
similar
notes from Austria-Hungary Oct. 7, and from Turkey
Oct.
12. Wilson’s replies Oct. 8, 14, 18, 23.
Oct. 7 Beirut taken by a French fleet.
Oct. 8 Cambrai taken by the British.
Oct. 13 Laon taken by the French.