man minister, on charges of
improper conduct made public by United States government.

14.--Paul Painleve becomes French premier, succeeding Ribot.

16.--Russia proclaimed a republic by Kerensky.

20.--Costa Rica breaks with Germany.

21.--Gen. Tasker H. Bliss named Chief of Staff of the United States
Army.

25.--Guynemer, famous French flier, killed.

26.--Zonnebeke, Polygon Wood and Tower Hamlets, east of Ypres, taken by
British.

28.--William D. Haywood, secretary, and 100 members of the Industrial
Workers of the World arrested for sedition.

29.--Turkish Mesopotamian army, under Ahmed Bey, captured by British.

October

6.--Peru and Uruguay break with Germany.

9.--Poelcapelle and other German positions captured in Franco-British
attack.

12-16.--Oesel and Dago, Russian islands in Gulf of Riga, captured by
Germans.

17.--Antilles, American transport, westbound from France, sunk by
submarine; 67 lost.

18.--Moon Island, in the Gulf of Riga, taken by Germans.

23.--American troops in France fire their first shot in trench warfare.

23.--French advance northeast of Soissons.

24.--Austro-Germans begin great offensive on Italian positions.

25.--Italians retreat across the Isonzo and evacuate the Bainsizza
Plateau.

26.--Brazil at war with Germany.

27.--Goritzia recaptured by Austro-Germans.

30.--Michaelis, German Chancellor, resigns; succeeded by Count George F.
von Hertling.

31.--Italians retreat to the Tagliamento.

31.--Beersheba, in Palestine, occupied by British.

November

1.--Germans abandon position on Chemin des Dames.

3.--Americans in trenches suffer 20 casualties in German attacks.

5.--Italians abandon Tagliamento line and retire on a 93-mile front in
the Carnic Alps.

6.--Passchendaele captured by Canadians.

6.--British Mesopotamian forces reach Tekrit, 100 miles northwest of
Bagdad.

7.--The Russian Bolsheviki, led by Lenine and Trotzsky, seize Petrograd
and depose Kerensky.

8.--Gen. Diaz succeeds Gen. Cadorna as Commander-in-Chief of Italian
armies.

9.--Italians retreat to the Piave.

10.--Lenine becomes Premier of Russia, succeeding Kerensky.

15.--Georges Clemenceau becomes Premier of France, succeeding Painleve.

18.--Major General Maude, captor of Bagdad, dies in Mesopotamia.

21.--Ribecourt, Flesquieres, Havrincourt, Marcoing and other German
positions captured by British.

23.--Italians repulse Germans on the whole front from the Asiago