Jan. 7-Earl Reading appointed British high commissioner and ambassador to the United States. Jan. 21-Americans take charge of sector of French front. Feb. 5-Transport Tuscania, carrying American troops, torpedoed and sunk with large loss of life. Feb. 10-Russian delegates at Brest-Litovsk declare state of war at end. Feb. 18-Germans resume operations on the Russian front, crossing the Dvina. Feb. 19-Germans occupy Dvinsk and Lutsk and press on into Russia: Lenin and Trotzky sign statement announcing surrender of Russia. Feb. 22-British capture Jericho. March 2-Germans capture Kiev in the Ukraine; Germans occupy Aland islands: Russian delegation at Brest-Litovsk accepts German peace terms. March 4-Roumania accepts German armistice conditions: Russians stop fighting. March 21-Germans begin heavy offensive along British front from the Oise to the Scarpe. March 23-Germans drive the British back over a front of about twenty-one miles to a depth of four or five miles west of Cambrai; Paris is bombarded by German gun seventyfour miles away. March 24-Germans capture Chauny, Ham, Peronne and the heights of Monchy and cross the River Somme. March 25-Germans capture Bapaume, Nesle and Guiscard. March 26-Germans take Roye and Lihons and cross the Bapaume-Albert road near Courcelette and Pozieres. March 27-British recapture Morlancourt and Chipilly, but lose Albert: French troops give ground and lose Montdidier: Premier Lloyd George asks United States to hasten troops to France. March 28-Gen. Foch made commander in chief of allied armies. March 29-Gen. Pershing places American forces at the disposal of Gen. Foch; offer accepted. March 30-American troops march to front to take part in battle. April 4-Germans take Mailly-Raineval and Morisel from French; launch strong attack on British front between Somme and Avre rivers. April 9-Germans attack in La Bassee canal region. April 11-British forced to evacuate Armentieres April 12-Field Marshal Haig issues order to army to "fight it out" to the end. April 16-Germans capture Bailleul, Wulverghem. Wytschaete and the greater part of Messines ridge. April 20-Twelve hundred German shock troops attack Americans near Renners forest and take village of Seicheprey from them; all lost ground recovered by counterattack April 23-British and French attack Zeebrugge and Ostend and sink five old cruisers in harbor channels to bottle up "U" boat bases. May 6-Australians drive Germans back near Morlancourt. May 7-American troops arriving on French front in force. May 10-Old cruiser Vindictive sunk by the tish at entrance to Ostend harbor. May 19-Maj. Raoul Lufbery, American ace aviator, killed in aerial fight. May 27-Germans begin second great offensive, taking the Chemin des Dames from the French and crossing the Aisne. May 28-American troops northwest of Montdidier attack German line on a front of one and one-quarter miles, capture village of Cantigny and take 200 prisoners. May 29-Soissons taken by the Germans. May 30-Germans approach close to the Marne at a point about fifty-five miles from Paris. May 31-Germans reach Chateau Thierry and other points on the Marne, where they are halted by the Americans and French. June 3-Ten American ships sunk on Atlantic coast by German submarines between about May 26 and June 3. June 6-American marines gain two miles on a two and a half mile front and take 100 prisoners near Veuilly, northwest of Chateau Thierry; take Hill 142 near Torcy and enter Torcy itself. June 7-French and Americans complete capture of Vilny, Veuilly-la-Poterie, Bussaires. Torcy, Belleau and the heights southeast of Haute Vesnes; Americans in second battle northwest of Chateau Thierry advance nearly two and a half miles on a six mile front. June 9-Germans begin new offensive between Montdidier and the Oise and advance about four miles. June 11-French inflict severe defeat on Germans on a front of seven miles between Rubescourt and St. Maur, taking 1,000 prisoners; Americans complete capture of Belleau wood, taking 300 prisoners and several machine guns and mortars. June 15-Austrians begin offensive against Italians along 100 mile front. June 16-Italians in counterattacks drive back the Austrians. June 17-Allies on the Italian front take the offensive. June 18-Austrians of halted with enormous losses on most parts of the front. June 23-On the Piave river front in Italy from the Montello to the Adriatic the Austrians retreat in disorder, abandoning many guns and much war materiel; Italians, pursuing vigorously, capture thousands prisoners; Americans clear out remainder of Belleau wood, taking five machine guns. July 1-American troops capture village of Vaux, west of Chateau Thierry, with more than 300 prisoners, including five officers: complete unit of 220,000 Americans guarding road to Paris. July 6-Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Russia, assassinated in Moscow. July 14-Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt killed in aerial battle. July 15-Germans begin big offensive from Chateau Thierry on the west to Main de Massiges, farther east, along a sixty-five mile front, crossing the Marne at various places: Americans in the Chateau Thierry region retire a short distance but by a strong counterattack drive the enemy back across the Marne with heavy losses. July 16-German offensive west and east of Reims continues. July 18-Gen. Foch delivers heavy counterattack against the western side of the German salient along a line from the Marne to the Aisne; takes Germans by surprise and captures more than a score of towns and many heavy cannon: Americans take part in drive and with the French advance six miles: cavalry and tanks used in the battle. July 19-French and Americans continue offensive between the Aisne and the Marne. taking 17.000 prisoners and 360 guns. ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1925. July 20-German troops south of the Marne the 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 Aug. 24-Americans advance to the Soissons- Thiepval. British and Ba Aug. Sept. 2-English, Scotch and Canadian troops Sept. 8-British clear Germans out of Havrin- Sept. 14-Americans take 150 square miles of 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. 24-French cavalrymen take Prilep in Sept. 25-Bulgar armies on Macedonian front 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- Oct. 2-St. Quentin taken by the French. Oct. 5-Germans hurriedly evacuating Lille and Oct. 7-Americans win hot battle for posses- Oct. 10-British take Le Cateau. Oct. 15-American troops hit the German line and British occupy Ostend, Lille and Douai: 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 Oct. 28-Austria urgently asks for peace. Oct. 30-German note seeks to hasten de- prisoners. take Nov. 2-British take Valenciennes: Americans Nov. 3-Italians capture Trent and Udine; Nov. 6-French win on 100 mile front. taking give up Ghent; Germans seeking truce reach Nov. 8-British, French and American armies Nov. 10-First and 2d American armies ad- 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. .Feb. 15 ..April 21 ..April 22 .April 24 .April 25 May 1 June 3 203-Meter hill captured. .Nov. 30, 1904 ..Dec. 18, 1904 ..Dec. 25, 1904 ..Dec. 31, 1904 .Jan. 1-2, 1905 Jan. 27-Feb. 4, 1905 24-March 12, 1905 .May 27-28, 1905 June 7, 1905 .July 31, 1905 Portsmouth peace conference...Aug. 9-29, 1905 .June 21 July 1 ..July 3 ..July 17 Peace treaty signed... ..Aug. 12 .Aug. 13 ..Dec. 12 War declared by Italy. Tripoli bombarded...... ITALIAN-TURKISH WAR, 1911-1912. .Sept. 5, 1905 PHILIPPINE WAR, 1899-1902. San Fernando captured.. Battle of Colamba. Battle of Calulut. Battle of Angeles. Maj. John A. Logan killed. Military governorship ended. ANGLO-BOER WAR. Boers declare war.. Battle of Magersfontein. Battle of Colesburg. Feb. 4, 1899 .Feb. 4-7, 1899 March 13, 1899 .April 25, 1899 May 5, 1899 .June 13, 1899 ..June 16. 1899 ..July 26, 1899 ..Aug. 9. 1899 .Aug. 16, 1899 .Nov. 11, 1899 ...Dec. 10, 1899 .Dec. 19, 1899 Feb. 25. 1900 .March 23, 1901 .April 30. 1902 ......July 4, 1902 1899-1902. .Oct. 10, 1899 .Oct. 12, 1899 .Oct. 20, 1899 .Dec. 10, 1899 .Dec. 31, 1899 .Jan. 23-25, 1900 .Feb. 15. 1900 .Feb. 27, 1900 March 1, 1900 May 17, 1900 .May 30, 1900 .May 30, 1900 ..June 4, 1900 annexed...Sept. 1. 1900 Gen. Cronje surrenders. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, Hostilities begun by Japan.. War declared.. Petropavlovsk sunk. Battle ship Hatsuse sunk. Cruiser Yoshino sunk. Nanshan hill battles.. Dalny captured.. Vafangow battle. Kaiping captured. Port Arthur invested. Port Arthur naval battle. March 7, 1902 .May 31, 1902 1904-1905. .Feb. 8. 1904 .Feb. 10, 1904 .April 13, 1904 May 1, 1904 May 15, 1904 May 15, 1904 May 21-27, 1904 May 30, 1904 .June 14, 1904 ..July 8, 1904 .July 20-31, 1904 .July 25, 1904 ....Aug. 3, 1904 ..Aug. 10, 1904 Aug. 26-Sept. 4, 1904 .Oct. 12-19, 1904 .Oct. 22, 1904 Tripoli captured.. Turks repulsed by Italians.. Seven Turkish gunboats sunk. Beirut bombarded.. Tripoli annexed.. Island of Rhodes seized. BALKAN-TURKISH WAR. ..Oct. 5, 1911 .Oct. 30, 1911 . Jan. 7, 1912 .Feb. 24, 1912 .Feb. 25, 1912 .May 4, 1912 .June 9. 1912 July 14, 1912 .Oct. 18, 1912 1912-1913. Oct. 9. 1912 Oct. 18, 1912 .Oct. 24, 1912 Oct. 29-31, 1912 .Nov. 8, 1912 Nov. 18. 1912 Dec. 16, 1912 ..Jan. 29. 1913 Feb. 3. 1913 March 6, 1913 .March 27, 1913 .April 23, 1913 May 14, 1913 .May 30, 1913 WAR, 1913. LLOYD'S. Lloyd's is an association of underwriters in London, England. 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