The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1917, Page 4

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Lowest Temperatures Fargo Williston Grand Forks . Pierre .. St. Paul . Winnipeg Helena Chicago . Swift Current ....... Kansas City .. San Francisco ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorogulist. THREE’ YEARS OF WAR’ As the war enters upon its fourth year, the United States shoulders a portion of the load with the Allias. The demoralization of ‘Russia increas- es this nation’s responsibility and un- doubtedly will prolong the war. Kitch- ener knew conditions when he said the war would last at least three years when hot heads about him were predicting three months as the lite of the struggle which now encircles the globe. Each month neutral territory is growing less and who knows but that economic pressure if nothing else will force more nations into the conflict. Military experts declare that the third year ends with the advantage on the side of the Entente. Entry of the United States doubtless has tip- ped the scales in favor of the Allies although it may be a year or more before the military weight of this na- tion is felt on the west front. But the confict is far from won. Germany is not beaten. France is suffering severe losses in man power and the submarine still keeps the wolf at the door of the En- tente. Russia is sadly distraught between the royalists who are admitedly pro-German and the revolu- tionists who in turn are divided on the war, some seeking peace and others under the leadership of Ker- ensky who realizes that a separate peace at this time would mean a restoration of autocracy are heart ann soul in the struggle. But Germany cannot win despite the victories of the first three years. She has been unable to consolidate territory won. Her losses in men and supplies have been greater during the third year than at any other time. Political conditions at home are far from ideal although not as dangerous to the perpetuation of the criminal regime as some optimists would have us think. “There is however, a strong ‘ray of hope that the German. people are realizing their ‘predicament and slowly relinquishing the hope of Pan- Germanism and world dominance which can never and must not be. Second in importance to the entry of the United States is the abdiction of Contantine and the freeing of Greece from Germanic intrigue. This year should see developments in the Balkans that will relieve the pressure on the West front. The failure of British diplomacy in the East during! the early months of the struggle and the ill fated Dardanelles campaign should be wiped out this year by Gen- eral Sarrail. Italy is an inigma in the war. The geography of the country makes the campaign against Austria a slight fac- tor in its general effect upon other fronts. The labors of Hercules are insignificant in comparison to the en- gineering problems involved in the drives toward Triest. It seems trite now to say that this is the greatest war in history. That statement is mildly suggestive of the conflict's proportions.. The Civil War for instance was only one-twentieth the size of this war in its first year. (Never did the men under arms in the Civil War exceed 1,300,000. Napol- eon’s largest army was 500,000. In the battle of the Marne alone 2,500,000 men were engaged and no one knows accurately to- day how many men are under arms. In fact the world is a vast military camp with its teeming millions under arms. Despite congressional procrastina- tion, the administration has been ac- tive during the first three months of this nation’s participation in the war months and even years to bring about. Right at the beginning of the war, we went in for selective conscription. We accomplished the registration of 10,- 000,000 young men without a hitch. The actual call to army service is completed. Cantonments are being rushed up all over the country. Soon the young men, who have been found qualified for duty, will be gathering in the army cities for training. In the meantime, 16 training schools, for the making of officers and three for the making of army doctors are in full blast. The regular army is being brought up to its 300,00 mark, the national guard fo the 450,000 mark. We have sent a complete little army to France under Maj. Gen. Per- shing. We have taken over complete control of six British base hospitals. We have army surgeons on the firing line. We have sent army engineers to France to help rebuild the rail- roads there and are preparing to send army engineers to rebuild the rail- roads of Russia. The navy has sent a formidable flotilla of destroyers which are help- ing the French and the English navies fight the U-boats. We have taken over the patrol of the south Atlantic, thus releasing French and English war vessels for other work. Our navy successfully convoyed the trans- ports which carried over Pershing’s 5|{army and supplies, without the loss of a single life or a single pound of food or munitions. The personnel of .| the navy and of the marine corps has been doubled. Gunners and guns ‘| have been supplied to all American merchant ships leaving Atlantic ports. Big additions,are being made to the navy, and submarine chasers are be- ing rushed to completion. .The Army and Navy Journal none too partial to the present ministration, but in a recent editorial it said: that our army and navy has “worked forward with a smoothness and‘ an absence of scandal that have no parallel in our history of warfare. Our military and naval operations have been conducted solely by army and navy officers with never a ‘poli- tical general’ showing his head above the horizen.” We have successfully floated a $2,- 000,000,000 loan, and have advanced over $1,375,000,000 to our allies, so that they were not compelled to be at the mercy of the’ American lean sharks while buying supplies in this countty. We have seized all the German- owned ships in our waters and these are rapidly being repaired so that they can be used in transport. Congress has just with unanimous vote appropriated the sum of $640, 900,000 for a big airplane building pro gram. i All in all—even admitting the fail- ure of the shipping board to get busy and the long delay over the food ad- ministration bill—it is doubtful whe ther in the entire history of the world theré is record of a pegiceful nation: accomplishing so: mgch*for war put poses ‘in so brief’a‘ttme . But encouraging as all this is, the real cause for optimism is that it in- dicates what the giant will do when he totally shakes off his lethargy and usés all his powers to the fullest ex- tent. Our boundless wealth, re- sources and man-power are bound to tell. That the fear of them is already getting on German nerves is ‘shown by the painful attempts of the tame German press to make their readers ‘believe we are a negligiio quantity They know better. The men in the German, trenches and U-boats ‘will soon know better. And after awhile even the docile and credulous German people will .know better. es? WHEN THEY ARE OURS! We skim over the headlines of the newspapers and don’t bother much about the bloody battles being fought in Europe because we can't pronounce the name of the cities anyway, and most of us haven't the remostest idea where they are. A single murder in the home town} makes a greater impression on our minds than the killing of a hundred thousand men in the trenches. The hundred thousand don’t disturb us very much, because w2 think they’re a lot of people way off in Europe. But if one of the hundred thousand were ours it would we different— wouldn’t it? ., And perhaps it is going to take just this thing to arouse us from our lethargy. The United States is at war witn Germany—and there are certain very specific things which every citizen of this country must do if we are to win What these things are is constantly being told to us in the daily newspa- pers; they are being proclaimed from the pulpit and in the public hails and the government is trying its best to make each of us sce our responsibili- ties. ’ If we were to lose this war, it would be a terrible thing to have you realize that you had not done your share to win. What about it? What are you do- ing to help win the war? The kaiser has held a confab with reichstag chiefs. No, kind friends, he intends nothing serious. He has mere- It hag taken us weeks to do what it iraire peril of its’ life, | ly become a convert for the time be- ing to the idea that conversation is RNR June 28, 1914. Achduke Ferdinand and Duchess of Hohenberg assassinated at Sarajevo, Bosnia, by Serbian student, Princip. July 23. Austria, in a note to Ser- bia, demands punishment of assassins and suppression of pan-Serbianism. July 27. England appeals for medi- ation; Austria, Serbia, Russia mobi- lize. July 28 AUSTRIA DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA; Germany mobi- lizes. July 29. Austrians bombard Bel- grade. July 30. Germary <cnds ultimatum to Russia. July 31. World's stock markets close. Aug. 1. Germany declares war on Russia. Aug. 3. Germany declares war on France and Belgium. German troops start on way to France through Bel- gium and Luxemburg. Italy proclaims neutrality. Aug. 4. England declares war on Germany; Germans attack Liege. Aug. 5. Kitchener appointed secre- tary for war; ‘Montenegro declares war on Austria. Aug. 6. Austria declares war on Russia. Aug. 7. British sieze Togoland; first British troops land in France. - Aug. 9. Serbia declares war on Ger- many. Aug. 11. Germans penetrate into France at Longwy; Montenegro de- clares war on Germany; France on Austria. Aug. 12.. England declares war on Austria. Aug. 20. Germans occupy Brussels; levy $40,000,000 on inhabitants. Aug. 23. Japan declares state of war with Germany. . Aug. 24. Japanese bombard Tsing- tau. Aug. 25. Austria declages war on | Japan; Germans destroy: Louvain. - Aug. 27. Allies retreat to Russians enter Eas’ Prussia Ayg. 28. British win naval battle in North sea; five German ships sunk. Aug. 29, Austria declares war on Belgium. Aug. 30. Germans take Amiens; Allies retreat to Seine. Sept. 2. Russians defeat Austrians at Lemberg. Sept. 3. Paris government moves to Bordeaux; Russia occupies Lem- berg. Sept. 4. Germans cross the Marne, toward Paris. Sept. 5. England, France and Rus- sia make no-separate-peace agree- ment. Sept. 7. German retreat begins, at the Marne, first big, battle of the war. Sept, 22. German, guvmarine U-9 sinks British, cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, with loss of 1,422 lives, excluding officers. ‘Sept. 26. Russians occupy Prze- mysl. : Sept. 27. Russians reach Uszok Pass in Carpathians, , Oct. 2. Serbians stop Austrians near the Drina. Oct. 9. Russians advance to Lyck in East Prussia; Germans take Ant- werp. Oct. 18. Montenegrins defeat 16,000 Austrians near Sarajevo; trial of Prin- cip begins. : Oct. 14. Allie, occ Ypres. py Ostend;, Africa, rogps before War- Oct. 23. Germans cross Yser; Rus- sians in great battle trying to hold Przemysl. Oct, 26. Generals De Wet and Bey- ers revolt in South Africa; routed. Oct. 29. 'Princip, assassin of Arch- duke Ferdinand gets 10 years; four accomplices sentenced to be hanged. Oct. 30. Russia declares state of war with Turkey. Nov. 1. German squadron wins na- val battle with British off Chile. Nov. 5. Great Britain declares state of war with Turkey; Russians capture Jeroslau, Galacia; Great Britain an- nexes island of Cyprus; South African revolts crushed; Sqrbia_ breaks rela- tions witl parker: H ..Nov. 7/ Japanese~ capture Kjau- chau. i Nov. 9. Germans surrender Tsing- tau. Nov. 27. Austria admits evacuation of Czernowitz, Bukowina. Dec. 1. General De Wet captured. Dec. 2. Austrians capture Belgrade. Dec. 8. British fleet sinks four Ger- man cruisers off Falkland islands. Dec. 14. Serbians occupy Belgrade. Dec. 16. Germans raid British coast towns, killing 99 persons. Dec. 30. German airplanes Dunkirk, killing 15, wounding 32. Jan. 8, 1915. British reply to American note on detention of neutral ships, claims right. Jan. 25. German armored cruiser Bluecher sunk in North sea in running fight with British squadron. a, Feb. 2. .Great Britain makes all food shipments contraband. Feb. 3. Anglo-French fleet destroys four forts in Dardanelles. Feb. 5. British defeat Turks north of Suez; heavy German losses on east front. . Feb. 10. Russians abandon Czerno- witz. Feb. 20. Allied fleet bombards Dar- danelles forts, Feb. 27. General Botha invades Ger- man West Africa. March 1. .Great Britain declares blockade of German coast. March 10. Prinz Eitel Friederich, German raider, puts in at Newport (News, and announces sinking Ameri- can ship William P. Frye. March 18. British battleships Irre- sistible and Ocean and French battle- ship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles. March 22. Przemysl, Austrian fort- ress in Galicia, surrenders. March 23. Allied troops landed in Gallipoli, Dardanelles. April 5. America demands repara- tion from German for sinking William P. Frye. April 11. - Kronprinz Wilhelm, Ger- man raider, arrives at Newport News. \ May 2. Austrians take 30,000 Rus- sian prisoners. . May 7. British liner Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1,100 lost, in- cluding 100 America raid cheap. May 12. British battleship Goliath sunk in Dardanelles; British subma- rine sinks three Turk ships in Dar- danelles. % May 22. Italy declares war on Aus- tria. May 24. Italians capture territory in Trieste. May 27. British battleship Triumph sunk in Dardanelles; Turk gunboat also sunk. May 28. British battleship Majestic destroyed in Dardanelles. May 31. German reply on Lusitania unsatisfactory; alleges liner was armed. June 2. Austro-Germans recapture Przemysl; San Marino joines allies. June 9. United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan re- signs; Lansing appointed. June 22. Austro-iermans reoccupy Lemberg. 2 June 29. Dominion liner Armenian sunk by Germans; 11 Americans lost. July 7.°. Italian armored cruiser Amalti sunk by Austrian submarine. Aug. 4. British reply to American protest to blockade offers to submit disputed cases of seizure to arbitra- tion. Aug. 5. Germans capture Warsaw. Aug. 14, -British transport sunk in Aegean sea; 1,000 troops lost. Aug. 19. German U-boat sinks White Star liner Arabic; 20 lost. : Sept. 1. Germany agrees to sink no more liners without warning. Sept. 8. Czar takes over command of Russian armies from Grand Duke Nicholas. Sept. 10. Wilson demands ‘recall of Dr. Dumba, Austrian ambassador. Sept, 19. Germans occupy Vilna. 'Sept!'25. Allies begin hige ‘drive on ‘west front; take’ 20,000 prisoners. Oct. 4. ‘Loan of $500,000,000 to Eng- land and France completed. Oct. 6. French and British troops land at Salonika; Greek king dis- misses Premier, Venizelos; forms co- alition cabinet. Oct. 7. Austro-Germans invade Ser- dia; capture Bplgrade. J Oct.10. " Bul*arians invade Serbia; Germans push south. z Oct. 14. Bulgaria officially declares war on Serbia. Oct. 15. Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria. «| Oct. 16. Serb-Anglo-French forces attack Strumitza, Bulgaria; . France declaresi‘war on Bulgaria: Oct. .19.. Russia ‘and Italy declare war gn Bulgaria, * Oct. 28. Aristide Briand becomes premier,of now Hrench cabinot. Nov. 6. Bulgarians capture Nish, important railroad center of Serbia. Dec. 1. British driven back from Bagdad by Turks. Dec. 4. Ford peace ship sails; Greece grants allies right to use Mace- donia for war purposes. Dec. 9.. Teutons clear Serbia of all enemies. Dec. 19. Allies withdraw 100,000 troops from Gallipoli; still hold tip of peninsula. y, Dec. 30. British passenger steamer Persia sunk without warning in Medi- terranean; Consul. R. M. McNelly drowned with 200 others. Jan. 6, 1916. é Great Britain adopts conscription. ; Jan. 9. Allies evactate Gallipoli. Feb. 1. German prize crew brings British steamer Appam into Norfolk, Va. Feb. 14. Russians capture Erzerum, Asia Minor. Feb. 23. Germans attack fortress of Verdun. March 4. French report auxiliary cruiser Provence. sunk in Mediterran- ean with loss of 3,000. March 8. Getmany declares war on Portugal. f March 16. Admiral. von Tirpitz, German naval ‘head, retires. March 20. Sixty-five allied airmen raid Zeebrugge. March 24. British steamer Sussex torpedoed; Americans aboard. April 1. Zeppelin raid on England kills 28, injures 44. April 2. Second: rafd kills 16, in- jures 100. April 4. New British budget of $9,000,000,000, largest in world’s his- tory. April 18 Wilson sends ultimatum, to Germany on Sussex sinking; sum- mons congress; Russians capture Trebizond, Asia Minor. April 19. Russian army lands in France; French make gains at Ver- dun. . April 24. Irish revolt in Dublin; 12 killed. April 26. German battle cruisers Annual spread of the great war 0 maps. The map of 1914 shows the ter the war; that of 1915 shows added na of 1916 shows still more territory in nations at present engaged in the worl ver the earth is shown on these four ritories, in black, then concerned in tions and territories brought in; that black, and the map of 1917 shows the d war. White territories are neutral. = agree on boycott of Germany after war. July 1. Allies begin grayd offensive on Somme; Italians and Ressians also advance. July 10.’ German merchant subma- rine Deutschland ireaches Kaltumore. Aug. 3. Roger Casement hanged for treason. ¢ 1Aug. 8. Germans execute Capt. Fryatt of British liner Brussels for al- leged attack on submarine. Aug. 27.. Rumania declares war on Austria; Germany on Rumania. Sept. 10. Bulgar-German capture Silistria, east Rumania. Oct. 1. Germans take 3,000 prison- ers in fight. with Rumani&ns in Tran- sylvania; driven back in Dobrudja. Oct. 7. U-53, German, submarine, reaches Newport, R. I, from Wilhelm- shaven. Oct. 8. troops U-53 sinks five British and raid Lowestoft and Yarmouth, Eng-} neutral ships off Nantucket. land. Oct. 16. Allies recognize former April 28. British garrison at Kut-el-| Premier Venizelos’ provisonal govern- Amara surrenders to Turks after 143] ment; allies occupy Athens. days’ siege. May 1. Irish revolt ended; executed; Augustine Birrell, chief sec- retary for Ireland, resigns as result. May 5. U-boat warfare if Great Britain raises blockade. May 10. Berlin admits sinking Sussex. May 27. Greek cabinet resigns. May 31. battle off Jutland; British lost 14 ships; Germans 12. ~ June 7. drowned when British cruiser Hamp- shire is sunk on way to Russia. June 15. 1s witz, capital of Bukowina. June 21. Ally economic conference Nov. 1. ‘Deutschland reaches New leaders! London ‘on second trip from Bremen. -| declare war. on Germany; Nov. 20. Allies capture Monastir, ‘Nov. 21. Emperor Franz Josef ‘of Germany promises to stop] Austria-liungary dies. Nov. 22. Britannic, huge hospital ship, sunk by German mine or torpedc in Aegean sea; 50 lost. Dec. 6. Austro-Germans capture Bu- charest, Rumanian capital; Lloyd British. and German fleets | George heads new British ministry. Dec. 12. Germany proposes peace. Dec. 18. Allies reject German peace Earl Kitchener and staff} proposat; want reparation restitution: Dec.'21. Wilson warns Europe that United States is on brink of war; de- Russians capture Czerno- | mands peace ‘terms. 2 Jan. 7, 1917. Austro-Germans penetrate to Focsa- ni, Rumania. | Jan. 9. Allies state specific peace terms—reparation, restitution and ade- quate security for.future. Feb. 1. Germany. declares U-boat blockade of Great Britain; warns neu- trals all ships in zone will be sunk without warning. i Feb. 3. Wilson breaks relations with Germany;*demands release of 72 American saijors on British liner Yar- rowdale captured by German raider; American liner Housatonic sunk by U-boat. Feb. 26. Cunard liner Laconia sunk by U-boat; 3 Americans killed; Bri- tish recapture Kut-el-Amara; Wilson asks power to arm merchant ships. \March 1. Waschington reveals Ger- man plot to induce Mexico and Japan to invade United States. March 7. Wilson decides to arm ships despite congress’ refusal. March 12. British capture Bagdad. March 14. - Petrograd announces Russian revolution; Nicholas abdi- cates; American steamer Algonquin torpedoed without warning. April 2. Wilson asks congress to calls for 500,000 volunteérs and liberal credit to allies. ite; votes for war, 82 House votes for war, 373 to 50; Wilson signs declaration of war; seizure of-German ships in Amer- ica begun, f° = April 9. Austria breaks relations with the United States; Brazil with Germany; British break German lines between Lens and. Arras. April 20. Turkey breaks relations with United States; two German de- stroyers -sunk.in- attempted’ raid ‘on England. ; April. 6. April 21. British commission under Foreign Secretary Balfour arrives in United States. April 24. French envoys arrive; Wilson signs $7,000,000,000 war bond issue; $200,000,000 loan to Great Bri- tain. April 28. Guatemala breaks rela- tions with Germany. May 2. United States floats $2,000,- 000,000 Liberty loan. May. 4. United States destroyers ar- rive in British waters. \ May 5. Allied war council held in Paris. : . May 11. Russian socialists ‘call in- ternational peace conference. May 15. Gen. Petain succeeds Gen. ‘Nivelle in supreme command of the French armies. Map 17. A. F. Kerensky, socialist leader, becomes’ minister of war in ‘Russia. May 18: ‘Wilson signs select service bill. x May’ 26. Zeppelin ‘raid ‘on Folke- stone kills'76; injures 174; three raid- ers brought down. June 7. British smash German sa- lient south of Ypres. June 8. Gen. Pershing arrives in London. June 12. King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of second son, Alex- ander. June 15. Liberty loan over-subscrib. ed by $900,000,000. June 19. Russian republic calls for offensive on east front. June 22. United States mission ar- rives in Russia. June 27. Former Premier Venizelos — forms new Greek cabinet. June 28. First American force ar- rives in France; Brazil revokes’ neu- trality. i f July 1. War Minister Kérensky leads Russians in terrific offensive in Galicia; Chinese republic overthrown; Hsuan Tung, boy emperor, restored to throne. July 7. Russian women’s legation goes to front, first in present war. sJuly'9. ‘Wilson:calls entire national guard into service; orders embargo of war supplies. July 12. Russians take Halicz, key to Lemberg; Chancellor Bethmann- Hollweg of Germany resigns. July 14. Georg Michaelis becomes German chancellor; Chinese republic restored. July 20. Drafting of select service army takes place in Washington. July 26.—Germans check Russian drive, demoralizing Russian forces. ——_——_—_—____—_—___—_—_——-9 STATE HOUSE NOTES | WILL GO TO FRANCE— Dr. S. G. Larabee of Mandan, com- missioned captain in. the United States medical reserve, has left for Philadelphia, where he has been in- structed to report for service in France. Dr. Larabee is a cousin of ‘Miss Leota Hendershott of the state railway commission's force. poxRp i TROUBLE— “| The hoard of ‘control is in trouble. Ats .two.membbers .who are on the job Here. are both ‘under ‘the ‘weather. Simon J. ‘Nagél of Morton county has a stubborn} attack ‘of lumbago, and James A. Brown of Bismarck is bat- tling with an attack of ivy poisoning, which refuses to be good. Consé- quently tours of state institutions planned some time ago are being de- ferred from day to day. FINE LOOKING LOT— “I never saw a finer looking lot of field officers in my life,” said a mili- tary authority who yesterday attend- ed the inspection of the staff and fleld of the Second regiment. Colonel Frank ‘White, Lieut.-Col. T. H. Tharal- son, Majors Mudgett and Geary, and Captain-Adjutant H. T. Murphy, all in their regimentals, did make a fine showing. All are veterans with many years’ service back of them, and they weer the uniform as one of the manor orn. LIKES THE BOYS— Capt. F. A. Cook is very well pleased with what he has seen of the Second regiment to date. In spite of lack of uniform and accoutrement, the boys of Co. I-made a fine showing yesterday. All are strapping, husky fellows, who will make splendid sol- diers. Captain Cook. declares: that the Dickinson machine gun company’s Personnel will compare with that of any infantry unit in the country. Beach also has many first class fight- ing men in its new company. MAY MEET LATE— It is doubtful whether the state ‘board of. equalization, scheduled to meet’ August 7, can get down to busi- ness on that date, as many of the county boards have not yet comptet- ed their readjustment. A very heavy increase in the assessed valuation of the state must be made if the admin- istration is to meet rapidly mounting expenses, including such unanticipat- ed. emergency appropriations as the $60,000. recently distributed to mem- bers of the first regiment as a bonus for their service on the Mexican bor- der, and a number of others which have been foupd peepgsary. — 2 ‘Try a Tribinié’waut ed for results.