including Porto Rico liner "Carolina"
with loss of 16 lives._

May 27- Third German drive, capturing the Chemin des Dames and
June 1 reaching the Marne River east of Chateau-Thierry. _American
Marines aid French at Chateau-Thierry._

_May 28 American forces near Montdidier capture Tillage of Cantigny
and hold it against numerous counter-attacks._

_May 31 U.S. transport "President Lincoln" sunk by U-boat while on
her way to the United States; 23 lives lost_.

June 9-16 Fourth German drive, on 20-mile front east of Montdidier,
makes only small gains.

June 10 Italian naval forces sink one Austrian dreadnaught and damage
another in the Adriatic.

_June 11 American Marines take Belleau Wood, with 800 prisoners._

June 14 Turkish troops occupy Tabriz, Persia.

_June 15 General March announces that there are 800,000 American troops
in France._

June 15- Austrian offensive against Italy fails with heavy losses.
July 6

_June 21 Official statement that American forces hold 39 miles of
French front in six sectors._

June 27 British hospital ship "Llandovery Castle" is torpedoed off
Irish coast with loss of 234 lives. Only 24 survived.

July 10 Italians and French take Berat in Albania.

July 13 Czecho-Slovak troops occupy Irkutsk in Siberia.

_July 15-18 Anglo-American forces occupy strategic positions on the Murman
Coast in northwestern Russia._

July 15-18 Fifth German drive extends three miles south of the Marne, but
east of Rheims makes no gain.

July 16 Ex-Czar Nicholas executed by Bolshevik authorities.

July 18- Second battle of the Marne, beginning with Foch's
Aug. 4 counter-offensive between Soissons and Chateau-Thierry. French
_and Americans_ drive the Germans back from the Marne nearly
to the Aisne.

July 22 Honduras declares war on Germany.

_July 27 American troops arrive on the Italian front._

_July 31 President Wilson takes over telegraph and telephone systems._

Aug. 2 Allies occupy Archangel, in northern Russia.

Aug. 8- Allies attack successfully near Montdidier, and continue the
Sept. drive until the Germans are back at the Hindenburg line,
giving up practically all the ground they had gained