April 4—­Germans start second phase of their spring drive on the Somme.  April 10—­Germans take 10,000 British prisoners in Flanders.  April 16—­Germans capture Messines ridge, near Ypres; Bolo Pasha executed.  April 23—­British and French navies “bottle up” Zeebrugge.  April 26—­Germans capture Mount Kemmel, taking 6,500 prisoners.

May 5—­Austria starts drive on Italy.  May 10—­British navy bottles up Ostend.  May 24—­British ship Moldavia, carrying American troops, torpedoed; 56 lost.  May 27—­Germans begin third phase of drive on west front; gain five miles.  May 28—­Germans take 15,000 prisoners in drive.  May 29—­Germans take Soissons and menace Reims.  American troops capture Cantigny.  May 30—­Germans reach the Marne, fifty-five miles from Paris.  May 31—­Germans take 45,000 prisoners in drive.

June 1—­Germans advance nine miles; are forty-six miles from Paris.  June 3—­Five German submarines attack the coast and sink eleven ships.  June 5—­U.  S. marines fight on the Marne near Chateau Thierry.  June 9—­Germans start fourth phase of their drive by advancing toward Noyon.  June 10—­Germans gain two miles.  U. S. marines capture south end of Belleau wood.

June 12—­French and Americans start counter attack.  June 15—­Austrians begin another drive on Italy and take 16,000 prisoners.  June 17—­Italians check Austrians on Piave river.  June 19—­Austrians cross the Piave, June 22—­Italians defeat Austrians on the Piave.  June 23—­Austrians begin great retreat across the Piave.

July 18—–­Gen. Foch launches allied offensive, with French, American, British, Italian and Belgian troops.  July 21—­Americans and French capture Chateau Thierry.  July 30—­German crown prince flees from the Marne and withdraws army.

August 2—­Soissons recaptured by Foch.  Aug. 4—­Americans take Fismes.  Aug. 5—­American troops landed at Archangel.  Aug. 7—­Americans cross the Yesle.  Aug. 16—­Bapaume recaptured.  Aug. 28—­French recross the Somme.

September 1—­Foch retakes Peronne.  Sept. 12—­Americans launch successful attack in St. Mihiel salient.  Sept. 28—­Allies win on 250 mile line, from North sea to Verdun.  Sept, 29—­Allies cross Hindenburg line.  Sept. 30—­Bulgaria surrenders, after successful allied campaign in Balkans.  October 1—­French take St. Quentin.  Oct. 4—­Austria asks Holland to mediate with allies for peace.  Oct. 5—­Germans start abandonment of Lille and from Douai.  Oct. 6—­Germany asks President Wilson for armistice.  Oct. 7—­Americans capture hills around Argonne.  Oct. 8—­President Wilson refuses armistice.  Oct. 9—­Allies capture Cambrai.  Oct. 10—­Allies capture Le Gateau.  Oct. 11—­American transport Otranto torpedoed and sunk; 500 lost.  Oct. 13—­Foch’s troops take Laon and La Fere.

October 14:—­British and Belgians take Koulers; President Wilson demands surrender by Germany.  Oct. 15—­British and Belgians cross Lys river, take 12,000 prisoners and 100 guns.  Oct. 16—­Allies enter Lille outskirts.  Oct. 17—­Allies capture Lille, Bruges, Zeebrugge, Ostend, and Douai.  Oct. 18—­Czecho-slovaks issue declaration of independence; Czechs rebel and seize Prague, captial of Bohemia; French take Thielt.