October 19—­President Wilson refuses Austrian peace plea and says Czecho-slovak state must be considered.  Oct. 21—­Allies cross the Oise and threaten Valenciennes.  Oct. 22—­Haig’s forces cross the Scheldt.  Oct. 23—­President Wilson refuses latest German peace plea.  Oct. 27—­German government asks President Wilson to state terms.  Oct. 28—­Austria begs for separate peace.

October 29—­Austria opens direct negotiations with Secretary Lansing.  Oct. 30—­Italians inflict great defeat on Austria; capture 33, Austrians evacuating Italian territory.  Oct. 31—­Turkey surrenders; Austrians utterly routed by Italians; lose 50,000; Austrian envoys, under white flag, enter Italian lines.

November 1—­Italians pursue beaten Austrians across Tagliamento river; allied conference at Versailles fixes peace terms for Germany.  Nov. 3—­Austria signs armistice amounting virtually to unconditional surrender.  Nov. 4—­Allied terms are sent to Germany.  Nov. 7—­Germany’s envoys enter allied lines by arrangement.

November 9—­Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates and crown prince renounces throne.  Nov. 10—­Former Kaiser Wilhelm and his eldest son, Friedrick Wilhelm, flee to Holland to escape widespread revolution throughout Germany.

November 9—–­Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates and crown prince renounces throne.  British battleship Britannia torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off entrance to Straits of Gibraltar.  Nov. 10—­Former Kaiser Wilhelm and his eldest son, Frederick Wilhelm, flee to Holland to escape widespread revolution throughout Germany.  King of Bavaria abdicates.  Nov. 11—­Armistice signed at 11 o’clock a. m., Paris time.  Firing ceased on all fronts.  An American battery from Providence, Rhode Island, fired last shot at exactly 11 o’clock on the front northwest of Verdun.  Germans began evacuation of Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine.

November 12—­German republic proclaimed at Berlin.  Emperor Charles of Austria abdicates.  Belgium demands complete independence instead of guaranteed neutrality.  To secure status as a belligerent at the peace council, Roumania again declares war on Germany.  United States decides to feed the German people.  United States stops draft boards and lifts war restriction of industries.  Nov. 13—­American troops cross the German former frontier and enter Alsace-Lorraine.

November 14—­Polish troops occupy the royal palaces in Warsaw and seize telegraph and telephone connections with Vienna.  United States loans another hundred million dollars to Italy for food supplies.  Dangerous bolshevik disorders in Germany and Austria.  German crown prince interned in Holland.

November 15—­Distinguished Service Medal conferred on General Pershing at his headquarters in France by General Tasker H. Bliss.  United States Postoffice department takes control of all ocean cable lines, consent of other governments having been obtained.  Prof.  Thomas G. Masaryk proclaimed President of the new Czecho-Slav republic.