Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Part 83

May 29--Soissons evacuated by French.

May 31--Maine River crossed by Germans, who reach Chateau Thierry, 40 miles from Paris.

May 31--"President Lincoln," American transport, sunk.

June 2--Schooner "Edward H. Cole" torpedoed by submarine off American coast.

June 3-6--American marines and regulars check advance of Germans at Chateau Thierry and Neuilly after maximum advance of Germans of 32 miles. Beginning of American co-operation on major scale.

June 9-14--German drive on Noyon-Montdidier front. Maximum advance, 5 miles.

June 15-24--Austrian drive on Italian front ends in complete failure.

July 12--Berat, Austrian base in Albania, captured by Italians.

July 15--Stonewall defense of Chateau Thierry blocks new German drive on Paris.

July 16--Nicholas Romanoff, ex-Czar of Russia, executed at Yekaterinburg.

July 18--French and Americans begin counter offensive on Marne-Aisne front.

July 19--"San Diego," United States cruiser, sunk off Fire Island.

July 21--German submarine sinks three barges off Cape Cod.

Aug. 3--Allies sweep on between Soissons and Rheims, driving the enemy from his base at Fismes and capturing the entire Aisne-Vesle front.

Aug. 7--Franco-American troops cross the Vesle.

Aug. 8--New Allied drive begun by Field-Marshal Haig in Picardy, penetrating enemy front 14 miles.

Aug. 10--Montdidier recaptured.

Aug. 29--Noyon and Bapaume fall in new Allied advance.

Sept. 1--Australians take Peronne.

Sept. 1--Americans fight for the first time on Belgian soil and capture Voormezeele.

Sept. 11--Germans are driven back to the Hindenburg line which they held in November, 1917.

Sept. 14--St. Mihiel recaptured from Germans. General Pers.h.i.+ng announces entire St. Mihiel salient erased, liberating more than 150 square miles of French territory which had been in German hands since 1914.

Sept. 20--Nazareth occupied by British forces in Palestine under Gen.

Allenby.

Sept. 23--Bulgarian armies flee before combined attacks of British, Greek, Serbian, Italian and French.

Sept. 26--Strumnitza, Bulgaria, occupied by Allies.

Sept. 27--Franco-Americans in drive from Rheims to Verdun take 30,000 prisoners.

Sept. 28--Belgians attack enemy from Ypres to North Sea, gaining four miles.

Sept. 29--Bulgaria surrenders to Gen. d'Esperey, the Allied commander.

Oct. 1--St. Quentin, cornerstone of Hindenburg line, captured.

Oct. 1--Damascus occupied by British in Palestine campaign.

Oct. 3--Albania cleared of Austrians by Italians.

Oct. 4--Ferdinand, king of Bulgaria, abdicates; Boris succeeds.

Oct. 5--Prince Maximilian, new German Chancellor, pleads with President Wilson to ask Allies for armistice.

Oct. 9--Cambrai in Allied hands.

Oct. 10--"Leinster," pa.s.senger steamer, sunk in Irish Channel by submarine; 480 lives lost; final German atrocity at sea.

Oct. 11--- Americans advance through Argonne forest.

Oct. 12--German foreign secretary, Solf, says plea for armistice is made in name of German people; agrees to evacuate all foreign soil.

Oct. 13--Laon and La Fere abandoned by Germans.

Oct. 13--Grandpre captured by Americans after four days' battle.

Oct. 14--President Wilson refers Germans to General Foch for armistice terms.

Oct. 17--Ostend, German submarine base, taken by land and sea forces.

Oct. 19--Bruges and Zeebrugge taken by Belgians and British.

Oct. 25--Beginning of terrific Italian drive which nets 50,000 prisoners in five days.

Oct. 31--Turkey surrenders; armistice takes effect at noon; conditions include free pa.s.sage of Dardanelles.

Nov. 3--Austria surrenders, signing armistice with Italy at 3 P.M. after 500,000 prisoners had been taken.

Nov. 11--Germany surrenders; armistice takes effect at 11 A.M. American flag hoisted on Sedan front.

Nov. 21--The German high seas fleet, 74 vessels in all, surrendered to the Allied fleet to be interned at Scapa Flow.

Dec. 4--President Wilson sailed from New York for Europe, to attend conference on the larger phases of the treaty of peace.

Dec. 15--The Allied force complete the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine.