Flanders (Passchendaele Ridge); British successes.
Nov.

Aug. 15 Peace proposals of Pope Benedict published (dated Aug. 1).
_United States replies Aug. 27;_ Germany and Austria,
Sept. 21.

Aug. 15 Canadians capture Hill 70, dominating Lens.

Aug. 19-24 New Italian drive on the Isonzo front.

Aug. 20-24 French attacks at Verdun recapture high ground lost in 1916.

Sept. 3 Riga captured by Germans.

_Sept. 8 Luxburg dispatches ("Spurlos versenkt") published by United
States._

Sept. 15 Russia proclaimed a republic.

Oct. 17 Russians defeated in a naval engagement in the Gulf of Riga.

Oct. 14.- Great German-Austrian invasion of Italy. Italian line shifted
Dec to Piave River.

Oct. 26 Brazil declares war on Germany.

Nov. 2 Germans retreat from the Chemin des Dames, in France.

_Nov. 3 First clash of American with German soldiers._

Nov. 7 Overthrow of Kerensky and Provisional Government of Russia
by the Bolsheviki.

Nov. 13 Clemenceau succeeds Ribot as French premier.

Nov. 20- Battle of Cambrai (page 119).
Dec. 13

Nov. 29 First plenary session of the Interallied Conference in
Paris. Sixteen nations represented. _Col. E.M. House,
chairman of American delegation._

Dec. 3 Conquest of German East Africa completed.

_Dec. 6 U.S. destroyer "Jacob Jones" sunk by submarine, with loss of
over 60 American men._

Dec. 6 Explosion on munitions vessel wrecks Halifax.

_Dec. 7 United States declares war on Austria-Hungary._

Dec. 10 Jerusalem captured by British.

Dec. 23 Peace negotiations opened at Brest-Litovsk between Bolshevik
government and Central Powers.

_Dec. 28 President Wilson takes over the control of railroads._

1918

Jan. 4 British hospital ship "Rewa" torpedoed and sunk in English
Channel.

_Jan. 8 President Wilson sets forth peace program of the United
States._

Jan. 18 Russian Constituent Assembly meets in Petrograd.

Jan. 19 The Bolsheviki dissolve the Russian Assembly.

Jan. 28 Revolution begins in Finland; fighting between "White Guards"
and "Red Guards."

Jan. 28-29 Big German air raid on London.

Jan. 30 German air raid on Paris.

_Feb. 3 American