nd.

20.--Carpathia, Cunard liner, used as transport torpedoed off Irish
coast. It was the Carpathia that saved most of the survivors of the
Titanic in April, 1912.

20.--Justicia, giant liner used as troopship, is sunk off Irish coast.

21.--German submarine sinks three barges off Cape Cod.

23.--French take Oulchy-le-Chateau and drive the Germans back ten miles
between the Aisne and the Marne.

30.--Allies astride the Ourcq; Germans in full retreat to the Vesle.

August

1.--Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. American poet and critic, aged 31, dies in
battle.

2.--French troops recapture Soissons.

3.--President Wilson announces new policy regarding Russia and agrees to
cooperate with Great Britain, France and Japan in sending forces to
Murmansk, Archangel and Vladivostok.

3.--Allies sweep on between Soissons and Rheims, driving the enemy from
his base at Fismes and capturing the entire Aisne-Vesle front.

7.--Franco-American troops cross the Vesle.

8.--New Allied drive begun by Field Marshal Haig in Picardy, penetrating
enemy front 14 miles.

10.--Montdidier recaptured.

13.--Lassigny massif taken by French.

15.--Canadians capture Damery and Parvillers, northwest of Roye.

29.--Noyon and Bapaume fall in new Allied advance.

September

1.--Australians take Peronne.

1.--Americans fight for the first time on Belgian soil and capture
Voormezeele.

11.--Germans are driven back to the Hindenburg line which they held in
November, 1917.

12.--Registration day for new draft army of men between 18 and 45 in the
United States.

13.--Americans begin vigorous offense in St. Mihiel Sector on 40-mile
front.

14.--St. Mihiel recaptured from Germans. General Pershing announces
entire St. Mihiel salient erased, liberating more than 150 square miles
of French territory which had been in German hands since 1914.

20.--Nazareth occupied by British forces in Palestine under Gen.
Allenby.

23.--Bulgarian armies flee before combined attacks of British, Greek,
Serbian, Italian and French.

25.--British take 40,000 prisoners in Palestine offensive.

26.--Strumnitza, Bulgaria, occupied by Allies.

27.--Franco-Americans in drive from Rheims to Verdun take 30,000
prisoners.

28.--Belgians attack enemy from Ypres to North Sea, gaining four miles.

29.--Bulgaria surrenders to General d'Esperey, the Allied commander.

30.--British-Belgian advance reaches Roulers.

October

1.--St. Quentin, cornerstone of