Foch chosen Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces.

April

5.--Japanese forces landed at Vladivostok.

9.--Second German drive begun in Flanders.

10.--First German drive halted before Amiens after maximum advance of 35
miles.

14.--United States Senator Stone, of Missouri, chairman of Committee on
Foreign Relations, dies.

15.--Second German drive halted before Ypres, after maximum advance of
10 miles.

16.--Bolo Pasha, Levantine resident in Paris executed for treason.

21.--Guatemala at War with Germany.

22.--Baron Von Richthofen, premier German flier, killed.

23.--British naval forces raid Zeebrugge in Belgium, German submarine
base, and block channel.

May

7.--Nicaragua at war with Germany and her allies.

19.--Major Raoul Lufberry, famous American aviator, killed.

24.--Costa Rica at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

27.--Third German drive begins or Aisne-Marne front of 30 miles between
Soissons and Rheims.

28.--Germans sweep on beyond the Chemin des Dames and cross the Vesle at
Fismes.

28.--Cantigny taken by Americans in local attack.

29.--Soissons evacuated by French.

31.--Marne River crossed by Germans, who reach Chateau Thierry, 40 miles
from Paris.

31.--President Lincoln, American transport, sunk.

June

2.--Schooner Edward H .Cole torpedoed by submarine off American coast.

3-6.--American marines and regulars check advance of Germans at Chateau
Thierry and Neuilly after maximum advance of Germans of 32 miles.
Beginning of American co-operation on major scale.

9-14.--German drive on Noyon-Montdidier front. Maximum advance, 5 miles.

15-24.--Austrian drive on Italian front ends in complete failure.

30.--American troops in France, in all departments of service, number
1,019,115.

July

1.--Vaux taken by Americans.

3.--Mohammed V, Sultan of Turkey, dies.

10.--Czecho-Slovaks, aided by Allies, take control of a long stretch of
the Trans-Siberian Railway.

12.--Berat, Austrian base in Albania, captured by Italians.

15.--Haiti at war with Germany.

15.--Stonewall defense of Chateau Thierry blocks new German drive on
Paris.

16.--Nicholas Romanoff, ex-Czar of Russia, executed at Yekaterinburg.

17.--Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of ex-President Roosevelt,
killed in aerial battle near Chateau Thierry.

18.--French and Americans begin counter offensive on Marne-Aisne front.

19.--San Diego, United States cruiser, sunk off Fire Isla