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r PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR Aug. 1, 1910. Merchantman U-boat Deutscliland leaves Baltimore home ward bound on first trip. Somme bat tle continues. Russians In heavy bat tle after crossing Stokhod river. August 2. Russians within ten miles of Kovel. August 3. French recapture part of Fieury, near Verdun. Sir Roger Casement hanged In London for par ticipation In Irish revolt. August 4. French take Thlaumont, near Verdun. August 5. British overwhelm Turks at Roman!, near Suez canal. August C. Russians cross rivers Sereth and Gruberka and take six vil lages fro9 Austrlans. August 8. Italians take Gorlzla bridgehead and capture 10.000 pris oners. Husslan General Letchitzky takes two towns and many villages. August 0. Gorlzla falls to Italians in great offensive. Austrlans near Stanlslau withdraw on wide front. August 10. Russians take Stanlslau. August 11. Allies seize Dolran lu Balkan drive. August 13. Auatrians evacuato line of the Strypa river. August 14. Russians capture Tusto baby. August 15. Russians take Jablon itza, near Carpathian pass. August 16. Allies take three miles of trenches near the Somme. An nounced Russians Jmve taken 858,000 prisoners since June 4, 1916, when drive began. August 18. Russians advance three miles into Hungary. August 20. British advance on-11-mlle front at Thiepval, near Somme river. Allies attack on 150-mile front in Balkans. Two British light cruls ors and one or two German U-boats sunk In North Sea battle. August 22. Announced big Russian contingent has landed at Saloniki. August 23. The Deutscliland reach es Bremen. August 24. Russians recapture Mush, Armenia. August 27. Rou mania declares war on Teutons and Invades Transylvania. Italy formally declares war on Ger many. August 29. Kaiser makes Von Hln denburg :hlef of staff of all German armies li place of Von Falkenhayn. August 31. Roumanians cross Dan ube and occupy Rustchuk, Bulgaria. .Austrlans fall back in Transylvania. September 2. Roumanians, far in Transylvania, take Hermannstadt. Zeppelins raid London and one is brought down In flames. September 3. Allies take three vil lages on Somme. Roumanians capture Orsova, Austria. Germans and Bul bars invade the Dobrudja. . September 4. French take five more villages on Somme; allies' prisoners in two days, 6,000. September 6. Teutons take Danube dty of Turtukal and 20,000 Rouma nians. September 8. Roumanians and Rus sians drive foe back a little In Do brudja. September 10. Teutons take Rou manian fortress of Sillstria. September 11. British drive across Struma river in Balkans. September 12. Allies capture three mile line 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 fight their way back onto their own soil. September 21. Russians and Rou manians announce they have thrown back the Invaders in Dobrudja. September 22. Announced allies .took 55,800 prisoners in Somme battle between July 1 and September 18. September 23. Roumanians in Do brudja driven back In disorder. Zep pelins invade England ; one burned, an other captured. September 25. Allies advance along 15-mHe front on Somme. Venlzelos leavea Athens to lead revolt against King Constantlne. September 26. Allies take Combles and Thiepval in Somme battle. September 30. Von Falkenhayn routs Roumanians at Hermannstadt, Transylvania. October 1. A Roumanian army crossed the Danube. October 2. Another Zeppelin shot down near London. October 4. Mackensen drives Rou manian Invaders of Bulgaria back to ward Danube. October 5. Roumanians flee across the Danube. Serbs cross Cerna river J In drive on Monastir. 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 Transylvania frontier. October 10. Roumanians In rout flee through mountain passes. October 11. Greece turns over her fleet to France on allies' demand. Ital ians, resuming Carso drive, take 5, 000 prisoners. October 22. Roumanians In Do brudja retreat hastily. October 23. Teutons occupy Con etanza, principal Roumanian seaport. Germans throw Russians back across Narayuvka river. October 21. French take 3,500 pris oners at Vordun. F October 25. Rmirrnnlnn oltv nt C.er. navoda falls. Defenders blow up great bridge across Danube. October 26. Light 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, Conn., on second trans Atlanllc 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 3.495 more prisoners. November 5. Central powers pro claim kingdom of Poland. Italians announce, have taken 40,365 Austrlans since fall of Gorlzla. November 9. 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 Roumanla. November 23. Russian dreadnaught Imperatrlta Maria sunk 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 manla. November 26. Venlzelos party de clares war on Germany and Bulgaria. Teutons Invading Roumanla from north and south form Junction. November 27. Teutons take Alex andria, Roumanla. Zeppelins raid England ; two downed by gunfire. November 29. Beatty replaces Jelll 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 Nlvelle take 9,000 prisoners on seven-mile front at Verdun. Nlvelle then leaves to become commander In chief of all France's home armies. Buzcu and all Wallachin 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 alms. December 24. Switzerland officially Indorses Wilson's plea for statement of war alms. December 25. Teutons take 9,000 Russians In Roumanla. 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 Constantlne of Greece thanks President Wilson for his note to the belligerents. January 4, 1917. British transport Icernla sunk by U-boat in Mediterra nean ; 150 lost. January 5. Ilouse 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 Roumanla. January 8. Russians launch offen sive near Riga. January 11. Allies In reply to Wil son note outline aims, 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 alms. January 19. British steamer Yar rowdale, Moewe's prize, reaches a German port with 469 prisoners. January 22. Wilson makes his "peace without victory" address In sen ate, demanding United States enter world league at close of war. January 24. After initia? successes, Russians are forced back near Riga. January 25. Mine sinks British aux iliary cruiser Laurentlc off Irish coast. January 31. 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. Unfted 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 artirmlng Prussian treaties with the United States, but he refuses. February 10. Gerard finally allowed to leave Berlin. February 12. Announced officially Get many 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 20. 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 In cite Mexico and Japan. Tokyo de nounces plot. Ilouse passes bill to arm ships, 403 to 13. March 3. Russians take Haraadan, 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 second 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 Zlmmermann note to Mex ico. March 9. President calls extra con gress session for April 16. 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. March 17. Germans begin 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 Vigilancia 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 nealdton, 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 G.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, Brit ish advance 50 miles beyond Bagdad. April 11. Herbert C. Hoover, ac cepts offer to direct food supplies of United State?. April 13. British cut into Ilinden burg line. President defines war zone off coast. April 14. Ilouse passes seven bil lion war loan bill. April 15. Wilson calls on nation to support him in war. April 16 French In 25-mlle of fensive toward the "Ladies Roard" and in Champagne take 10,000 prisoners first day. April 17. Big war credit passes sen ate. German wounded die when U-boats sink British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfrano without warning. April 18. French prisoners in new offensive total 17,000. April 19. Fight is started for pro hibition during war. American freight er Mongolia sinks 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 01 British vessels in week, it Is announced, caus ing alarm In Britain. Wilson tells Bal four United States will not inaks a separate peace. United States makes first foreign wan- loan $200,000,000 to Great Britain. ! - April 2S. House votes eonscriptlou army bill, 397 to 24, and senate, 81 to 8. Guatemala breaks off relations with Germany. April 29. Petain chosen to lead French armies in place of Nlvelle. Joffre asks United States army in France without delay. May 2. Announce first Liberty Loan bond Issue will be $2,000,000,000. Sec retary of State 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 Alsne 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 70 persons in Dover and Folkestone. May 26. Germany announces 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 trlans since May 14. June 3. General Chang Ilsun named dictator by royalists of China. June 5. United States registers for the army draft without disorder. General Brusiloff made head of Rus sian armies. June 7. British blow up Messines 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 300,000 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. June 11. Lord Northcliffe, famous publisher, arrives to co-ordinate Brit ish missions in United States. June 12. King Constantlne 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. Ellhu 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 ofllcial 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 Irt-land. JuJe 22. Announced Liberty loan subscriptions total $3,035,226,850. June 25. American Red Cross cam paign closes, with subscriptions over the hundred million dollars sought. June 20. Official Mesopotamlan 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 Gaiicla. War Minister Ke rensky leads attack. Haig 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 announces 6,000 more prison ers. Germans make vain five-mile of fensive at Verdun. July 4. Eleven killed In German 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 stairs 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 seacoast beat British back to Yser river and capture 1,250 men. Crisis over electoral reforms and war alms in Germany. Russians take Hallcz, Gallcla. July It. Russians seize town of Kalusz. July 12. Widespread labor disorders In West caused by Industrial Workers of the World; German agents suspect ed. Chang Ilsun, leader of Chinese monarchists, files to Dutch legation in Peking. July 13. British bring down 30 Ger man airplanes on west front in big gest air battle so far. July 14. Chancellor Bethmann-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 Lodziany from Austrlans, 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 Hurteblse partly successful. Chancellor MIchaells de clared for submarine warfare. Rus sians driven back In Vllna region. Teu tons make advances In Gallcla. 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. Siam 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 bridge Colby succeeded them. Mc Adoo asked congress for $5,000,000,000 more for war. Russians evacuated Stanislau, their whole Hue 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 Kornilofl"s measures to restore order. Lenlne, Russian pacifist agitator, captured af ter greatest man hunt Russia ever knew. 100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GREAT WAR June 28, 1914. Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria's throne, and wife assassinated at Serajavo, Bosnia, by Slav student, Prlnclp, giv ing the pretext for war. July 23. Austria delivers famous ultimatum to Serbia, charging assas sination plot was hatched on Serb soil. 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 Mons-Char- lerol ; Germans victorious. August 23. Japan at war with Ger many. August 27. Germans burn Louvaln, 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 30. Russia declares war on Turkey. November 1. Germans sink Ad miral Cradlock's British tleet off Chili. November 10-12. Second battle at Ypres. December 1. German General De Wet captured, ending South African revolt. December 5. Serbians defeat Aus trlans. December 8. British sink German fleet off Falkland Islands. January 24, 1915. Naval battle In North sea ; German cruiser Bluecher sunk. Februarv 8. Russians suffer sec ond creat defeat In East Prussia. February 17. Germans begin sub-ji marine blockade, despite American protest. f March 22. Russians take Przemys Gallcla after long siege. 4 April 22. Gas first used In war Germans at Ypres. April 25. Allies land at Darda nelles. May 4. Beginning of great German offensive against Russia. May 7. Lusitanla 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 Przeraysl. August 5. Germans capture War saw. 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 Pin8k high rW In Ihvi fm of Russia. September 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. December 19. Allies evacuate Gal lipoli. February 14, 1916. Russians capture Erzerum, Turkey. February 23. Germans open Verdun offensive. April 18. Russians take Treblzond, Turkey. April 24. Irish revolt In Dublin. April 28. British besieged In Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 30. 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 wltz, capital of Bukowlna, In great of fensive. June 20. Arabs rebel from Turkey, capture. Mecca; new kingdom estab lished. -June 27. British and French in great drive In west. July 9. Submarine merchantman Deutschland reaches Baltimore. July 27. Russians retake Brody, northern Gallcla. August 9. Italians take Gorlzla. July 10. Russians take Stanlslau, Gallcla. August 28. Roumanla enters war on side of the entente, and Invades Tran sylvania. September 6. Germany begius great squeeze on Roumanla. November 10. First great air bat tle of world's history; 67 British, French and German airplanes brought down. December 5. Teutons take Bu charest. December 11. Germany openly prof- iers pence w ner enemies. December 21. President Wilson asks both sides to define their war aims. 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 nf war. January 31. 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 Knt-el-Amara. February 28. Zlmmermann 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 Ger many. April 9. Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations --wlth United States. April 9. British storm Vlmy Ridge. April 10. Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. April 10. French in great offensive near Alsne 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. Big Italian offensive in Carso begins. June 3. Chinese royalists name Chang nsun dictator; Germans assist plot. June 5. Americans register for army drart witnout cusoruer. June 7. British blow up Messines ridge; explosion hoard In London. June 8. General Pershing reaches England. June 12. King Constantlne of Greece abdicates; nation prepares to Join allies. June 13. 153 killed, 430 injured in London by Germnn airpbine raid. June 15. United States Liberty Loan closes, with billion oversub scription. June 27. Announce arrival of first American army In France. June 2S. Brazil joins In war. June 30. Russians begin big offen- sfjiJn ( n Gallcla led by War Minister y In person. 1 Chinese empire declared re- t1 ; repuDiicans prepare to re- -Twenty-two German alr nmense new type kill 43, fn London. :ilson orders export env tnge empire falls; b Dutch legation in bizeest air battle so far BrinsuwAi'u downing or su uerman planes on west front. July 14. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial chancellor, resigns Rnd the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg MIchaells In his place. July 19. Russians in Gallcla mu tiny and are routed by Germans. July 20. Draft for American Na tional army held. July 20. rremler Lvoff of Russia resigns and Kerensky succeeds him. Julv 21. United States senate passes fooil control and $640,000,000 aviation bills.
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