sia. July 28--United States war industries board created to
supervise expenditures.

August 25--Italian Second army breaks through Austrian line on Isonzo
front. Aug. 28--President Wilson rejects Pope Benedict's peace plea.

September 10--Gen. Korniloff demands control of Russian government.
Sept. 11--Russian deputies vote to support Kerensky. Korniloff's
generals ordered arrested. Sept. 16--Russia proclaims new republic by
order of Premier Kerensky. Sept. 20--Gen. Haig advances mile through
German lines at Ypres. Sept. 21--Gen. Tasker H. Bliss named chief of
staff, U.S. army.

October 16--Germans occupy islands of Runo and Adro in the Gulf of Riga.
Oct. 25--French under Gen. Petain advance and take 12,000 prisoners on
Aisne front. Oct. 27--Formal announcement made that American troops in
France had fired their first shots in the war. Oct. 29--Italian Isonzo
front collapses and Austro-German army reaches outposts of Udine.

November 1--Secretary Lansing makes public the Luxburg "spurlos
versenkt" note. Nov. 7--Austro-German troops capture? Nov. 9--Permanent
interallied military commission created. Nov. 24--Navy department
announces capture of first German submarine by American destroyer. Nov.
28--Bolsheviki get absolute control of Russian assembly in Russian
elections.

December 6--Submarine sinks the Jacob Jones, first regular warship
of American navy destroyed. Dec. 7--Congress declares war on
Austria-Hungary. Dec. 8--Jerusalem surrenders to Gen. Allenby's forces.

January 5--President Wilson delivers speech to congress giving "fourteen
points" necessary to peace. Jan. 20--British monitors win seafight
with cruisers Goeben and Breslau, sinking latter. Jan. 28--Russia and
Roumania sever diplomatic relations.

February 2--United States troops take over their first sector, near
Toul. Feb. 6--United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine,
lost. Feb. 11--President Wilson, in address to congress, gives four
additional peace principles, including self-determination of nations;
Bolsheviki declare war with Germany over, but refuse to sign peace
treaty. Feb. 13--Bolo Pasha sentenced to death in France for treason.
Feb. 25--Germans take Reval, Russian naval base, and Pskov; Chancellor
von Hertling agrees "in principle" with President Wilson's peace
principles, in address to reichstag.

March 1--Americans repulse German attack on Toul sector. March 2--Treaty
of peace with Germany signed by Bolsheviki at Brest-Li