troops officially announced to be on the Lorraine
front near Toul._

Feb. 5 British transport "Tuscania" with 2,179 American troops on
board torpedoed and sunk; _211 American soldiers lost_.

Feb. 9 Ukrainia makes peace with Germany.

Feb. 10 The Bolsheviki order demobilization of the Russian army.

Feb. 14 Bolo Pasha condemned for treason against France; executed
April 16.

Feb. 17 Cossack General Kaledines commits suicide. Collapse of
Cossack revolt against the Bolsheviki.

Feb. 18- Russo-German armistice declared at an end by Germany;
Mar. 3 war resumed. Germans occupy Dvinsk, Minsk, and other cities.

Feb. 21 German troops land in Finland.

Feb. 23 Turkish troops drive back the Russians in the northeast
(Trebizond taken Feb. 26, Erzerum March 14).

Mar. 2 German and Ukrainian troops defeat the Bolsheviki near Kief
in Ukrainia.

Mar. 3 Bolsheviki sign peace treaty with Germany at Brest-Litovsk.
Ratified by Soviet Congress at Moscow March 15.

Mar. 7 Finland and Germany sign a treaty of peace.

_Mar. 10 Announcement that American troops are occupying trenches at
four different points on French front._

_Mar. 11 First wholly American raid, made in sector north of Toul,
meets with success._

Mar. 11 Great German air raid on Paris, by more than fifty planes.

Mar. 13 German troops occupy Odessa on Black Sea.

Mar. 21- First German drive of the year, on 50-mile front, extending
Apr. 1 to Montdidier (page 143).

Apr. 9-18 Second German drive, on a 30-mile front between Ypres and
Arras.

May 6 Roumania signs peace treaty with the Central Powers.

May 7 Nicaragua declares war on Germany and her allies.

May 9-10 British naval force attempts to block Ostend harbor.

May 14 Caucasus proclaims itself an independent state; but the Turks
overrun the southern part, and take Baku Sept. 19.

May 21 British transport "Moldavia" is sunk _with loss of 53 American
soldiers._

_May 24 Major General March appointed Chief of Staff with the rank of
General._

May 24 Costa Rica declares war on the Central Powers.

_May 25- German submarines appear off American coast and sink 19
June coastwise vessels,