ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1925.

July 20-German troops south of the Marne
forced to retreat to north side; French and
American troops between the Aisne and the
Marne continue to press forward: French,
British. American and Italian forces attack
and gain ground along the line extending
from Chateau Thierry east to Reims; num-
ber of prisoners taken by the allies increased
to more than 20,000.
Chateau
out of
July 21-Germans driven
Thierry by French and Americans.
July 27-Germans retreat all along the line
north of the Marne.

the
Aug. 2-Allies capture Soissons, cross
Crise and progress north of the Ourcq: they
also take Goussaincourt, Villers-Agron, Ville-
en-Tardenois, Gueux and Thilloy; German
crown prince's army in full retreat.
Aug. 8-British and French begin offensive in
Picardy east of Amiens.

Aug. 10-French recapture Montdidier: British and American troops capture Morlancourt. Aug. 11-Organization of first American field army in France announced.

Aug. 15-American troops arrive at Vladivostok. Siberia.

Aug. 20-Gen.

Mangin's 4th French

army

takes 8.000 Germans in smash between the Oise and the Aisne.

Aug. 22-British capture Albert with 1.400
prisoners.

Aug. 24-Americans advance to the Soissons-
Bray
capture
Reims road;

Thiepval.

British

and

Ba

Aug.
29-Noyon captured by French;
paume taken by the British.
Sept. 1-Americans in Belgium capture Voor-
mezeele: Australian troops capture Peronne
and 2,000 prisoners.

Sept. 2-English, Scotch and Canadian troops
carry the Queant-Drocourt "switch line."
Sept. 7-Allies advance on fifty mile front
from Havrincourt wood to the Chemin des
Dames; Americans reach the Aisne in the
vicinity of Vieil Arcy.

Sept. 8-British clear Germans out of Havrin-
court wood; reach line held at beginning of
German offensive March 21.
Sept. 12-Gen. Pershing attacks St. Mihiel
salient after heavy artillery preparation;
takes many towns and a large number of
five miles at some
advances
prisoners:
points: French occupy town of St. Mihiel.
Sept. 13-American troops wipe out remainder
of St. Mihiel salient.

Sept. 14-Americans take 150 square miles of
territory in St. Mihiel offensive, with 15.000
prisoners.

Sept. 15-French and Serbians pierce Bulgarian front for a width of ten miles.

Sept. 18-British and French pierce Hindenburg line on a twenty-two-mile front, taking ten towns and 6,000 prisoners in St. Quentin sector.

and
Sept. 19-French fight their way over the St.
Contescourt
Quentin canal, capturing
Castres: Field Marshal Haig reports capture
of 10.000 prisoners and sixty guns.
Sept. 23-Germans and Bulgarians in flight
through Serbia.

Sept. 24-French cavalrymen take Prilep in
Serbia.

Sept. 25-Bulgar armies on Macedonian front
split into groups; Gen. Allenby in Palestine
reports capture of 40.000 Turks and 265
guns in great offensive,

Sept. 26-Gen. Pershing's 1st army smashes its way seven miles deep into the German lines over a front of twenty miles from the Meuse westward through the Argonne forest, capturing twelve towns, 5.000 prisoners and twenty large guns: Varennes, Montblainville, Vauquois and Cheppy taken by storm. Sept. 27-Bulgarians ask for armistice and terms of peace: British take Strumnitza.

Sept. 29-Armistice between allies and Bul-
garians signed; French capture Urvillers and
Cerizy and break Hindenburg line between
St. Quentin and La Fere; Americans and
French take western part of the Chemin des
Dames: Americans capture Montfaucon; en-
tire department of the Somme liberated from
the Germans; American troops help British
to take Bellicourt, Nauroy and other places
on the Hindenburg line; Belgians drive close
to Roulers, taking Dixmude, Moorslede, Pas-
schendaele and other towns.

Oct. 2-St. Quentin taken by the French.
Oct. 3-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicates.
of the Meuse.
Oct. 4-American troops resume offensive west

Oct. 5-Germans hurriedly evacuating Lille and
beginning a movement to abandon the Bel-
gian coast region: British troops enter Lens:
Germans retreat on a twenty-eight mile front
north of Reims.

Oct. 7-Americans win hot battle for posses-
sion of north end of Argonne forest.
Oct. 8-British, French and American troops
deliver assault on twenty mile front between
Cambrai and St. Quentin, taking thousands
of prisoners: Americans take Brancourt and
Premont; in Verdun region the Americans
continue fight for remainder of Argonne
forest.

Oct. 10-British take Le Cateau.
Oct. 11-Argonne forest completely cleared of
Germans by the American troops.
on Champagne
Oct. 12-Germans fall back
front from Laon to the Argonne.
Oct. 13-Americans advance on both sides of
the Meuse, taking all their objectives.
Oct. 14-French. British and Belgian troops
take many villages in Belgium, with 7,000
prisoners: American troops advance beyond
Cunel and Romagne west of the Meuse and
farther west reach St. Georges and Landres-
et-St. Georges.

Oct. 15-American troops hit the German line
north of Verdun, taking St. Juvin and Hill
299 west of Bantheville; left wing crosses
approaches Grandpre; in
Aire river and
Flanders the British advance to the vicinity
of Courtrai: capture Gulleghem and Heule
and advance to suburbs of Lille.
Oct. 16-Americans capture Grandpre: Ger-
retreat from
continue their great
mans
northern Belgium.

and British occupy Ostend, Lille and Douai:
Oct. 17-Belgians enter Bruges and Zeebrugge
King Albert enters Ostend; Americans take
Cote Chatillon.

Oct. 18-Belgian flags fly over every town on the Belgian coast; French occupy and pass beyond Thielt: Lille evacuated by the Gerand entered by British: Americans take Bantheville.

mans

front, taking Brieulles. Tamla farm and Oct. 23-Americans advance on fifteen mile other places north of Bantheville.

Oct. 24-Americans attack east of the Mense and reach the Freya position: British drive Germans back along whole front between the Sambre and the Meuse.

gin new offensive on Italian front between Oct. 25-British, French and Italian troops bethe Brenta and Piave rivers, taking 3,000 prisoners.

as

first army:

Oct. 27-Gen. Ludendorff resigns
of German
quartermaster-general
Italian forces cross the Piave and take 9,000
Austrians and fifty-one guns.

Oct. 28-Austria urgently asks for peace.
ano, five miles from the Piave, and push on
Oct. 29-Allied forces in Italy capture Conegli-
along a front of thirty-seven miles: Rhine
Germans in flight,

Oct. 30-German note seeks to hasten de-
cision on armistice terms: Czechs take over
rule of Prague; Italians capture Vittorio and
drive the Austrians back along the Piave
from the mountains to the sea; taking of
33.000 Austrians in drive announced.
Oct. 31-Turkey makes full surrender; Aus-
trian collapse on Italian front; troops aban
don everything in flight to escape.
Nov. 1-Armistice terms given to Austria:
Americans advance four miles in new drive
east of the Argonne; allies in Belgium take
nineteen towns and gain ten miles: Americans
capture Landres-et-St. Georges, Remonville,
Clery le Grand and other towns, with 2,000

prisoners.

take

Nov. 2-British take Valenciennes: Americans
break through the Freya line and
Champigneulle, Buzancy, Fosse. Baricourt and
Doulcon.

Nov. 3-Italians capture Trent and Udine;
whole Austrian front smashed,
Nov. 4-Austria makes complete surrender;
Americans advance toward Sedan, reaching
Stenay: British in advance between the
Scheldt and the Oise-Sambre canal and with
the French co-operating take 10.000 prison-
ers and 200 guns.

Nov. 6-French win on 100 mile front. taking
Vervins. Montcornet and Rethel: Americans
enter Sedan; cross the Meuse river: Germans

give up Ghent; Germans seeking truce reach
French lines.
Nov. 7-Passage of German peace envoys to
French headquarters arranged; allied armies
drive along whole front.

Nov. 8-British, French and American armies
press forward along whole of long line from
extreme north to east of the Meuse; scores
of towns taken; German plenipotentiaries ar-
rive at Marshal Foch's headquarters and are
given armistice terms fixed by allied war
council with time limit for acceptance fixed
for 11 o'clock Monday morning. Nov. 11:
revolution in Berlin; Bavaria deposes king
Nov. 9-Chancellor Prince Maximilian of Ger-
and proclaims republic.
many announces that kaiser and crown_prince
have decided to renounce the throne; Deputy
Ebert made imperial chancellor.

Nov. 10-First and 2d American armies ad-
vance along the Moselle and the Meuse on a
front of about seventy-one miles: capture
Stenay and numerous fortified positions in
Lorraine: Gen. Gouraud makes official entry
into Sedan; Emperor William takes refuge in
Holland.

Nov. 11-German envoys sign armistice terms and fighting ceases at 11 a. m. all along the line: President Wilson announces to congress that "the war thus comes to an end": great peace celebration held in all the allied countries.

AMERICAN AVIATION ACES.

Following is an official list of American avi- | ators who gained six or more air victories in the war. with the number credited to each:

Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, 26, 1334 East Livingston avenue, Columbus, O.

First Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr. (deceased), 18, 2200 West Monroe street, Phoenix, Ariz.

Maj. Victor Raoul Lufbery (deceased). 17, Dieppe, France.

First Lieut. David E. Putnam (deceased), 12, 47 Englewood avenue, Brookline, Mass.

Maj. Reed G. Landis, 12, Hotel Windermere, Chicago, Ill.

First Lieut. Fields Kinley, 10. Gravette, Ark. First Lieut. George A. Vaughn, Jr., 10, 441 Washington avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

First Lieut. Jacques Michael Swaab, 10, 16th and Diamond streets, Philadelphia.

First Lieut. Thomas G. Cassady, 9. (No home address.)

First Lieut. Chester E. Wright, 9, 41 Dana hall, Cambridge, Mass.

First Lieut. William P. Erwin, 9, 814 Fine Arts building, Chicago,

Capt. Elliott W. Springs, 9, Lancaster, Pa. First Lieut. Henry R. Clay, Jr., 8. 1703 Summit avenue, Fort Worth, Tex.

Maj. James A. Meissner, 8, 45 Lenox road. Brooklyn. N. Y.

Capt. Hamilton Coolidge (deceased), 8, 10 West place, Boston, Mass.

Capt. G. DeFreest Larner, 8, Highland apartments, Washington. D. C.

First Lieut. Paul Frank Baer, 8, 1304 Maud street, Fort Wayne, Ind.

First Lieut. Frank O. D. Hunter, 8. 218 Gaston street. Savannah, Ga.

First Lieut. Wilbert Wallace White (deceased), 8, 541 Lexington avenue, New York city.

Second Lieut. Clinton Jones, 8, 2617 Buchanan street, San Francisco, Cal.

Capt. Reid M. Chambers, 7, 276 Monroe street. Memphis, Tenn

First Lieut. Harvey Cook, 7. Toledo, O. Maj. James Alfred Keating, 6, 1881 West 108th street, Chicago, Ill.

LLOYD'S.