JANUARY
Lusitania Settlement Now Likely, Following Austria’s Compliance With All Our Demands On Ancona
Liner Persia Torpedoed; Hundreds Perish; Three Americans, One A Consul, On Board, Washington Sees A New Crisis Threatened
Persia Sunk Without Warning; American Consul Among 250 Lost; Washington Hears Liner Was Armed
Submarines Sink Four More Ships; 11 More Persia Survivors Land; President Hurries Back To Capital
President Awaits Persia Details; To Act Promptly When He Gets Them: Is Suspending Judgement Meanwhile
Second American Lost On The Persia; Lansing Again Cables For Details; War Debate Starts In The Senate
Three Labor Members Quit Ministry As Unions Vote Against Conscription; Bill Passed By Commons, 403 To 105
Germany Pledges Humanity At Sea; Will Also Pay Lusitania Indemnity; Austria And Turkey To Join In Pledge
Wilson Administration Sees A Victory For All Nations In German Pledge; Note On Frye Yields Another Point
Allies Abandon All Of Gallipoli, Escaping From Turks Without Loss; Mine Sinks Battleship Edward VII.
British Rushing To Save Kut-El-Amara; Pursue Huge Turk Army After Defeat; German Offensive In Champagne Fails
Montenegrins Lose Mount Lovcen; Teutons Move Bases Back In Russia; 30,000 Germans Fell In Champagne
Lansing Demands Carranza Punish Bandits Who Massacred Americans; Senate Debates Armed Intervention
Gen. Almeida Shot, Rodriguez To Die; Their Villa Forces Routed In Battle; Wilson Stands Against Intervention
Von Papen Paid Horn, The Dynamiter; Sent Funds Before Seattle Explosion; Facts Disclosed In His Seized Papers
Gas Explosion In Submarine Kills 4, Injures 10, At Brooklyn Navy Yard; Edison’s New Safety Battery Blamed
Carranza Orders Death Of Bandits
Allied Troops Land Near Athens; King To Move Capital, Berlin Hears; Montenegro Agrees To Surrender
50,000 More Men For Britain’s Navy; Kitchener Has ‘Troops Enough To Win’; Lord Derby Is Sure Of Victory Now
Montenegro Rejects Terms Of Peace; Greek King And ‘Highest Man In France’ Have It Out In Newspaper Interviews
Fight In Senate Over Blockade
Nicholas Forced By His Own Army To Continue War
Nicholas’s Army Will Join Serbs
German Aeroplanes Raid London, Killing One Person And Wounding Six; May Forecast A Dash By Zeppelins
Germany In New Lusitania Proposal Virtually Ceases To Defend Sinking; Austria May Attack Armed Liners
Wilson Rejects Lusitania Note; Asks Disavowal
Grey Wins Fight Against Making Blockade Tighter
‘Prepare,’ President Wilson Pleads, ‘No Man Can Be Sure Of The Morrow;’ Says He Is Ready To Fight For Honor
Germany Must Settle On Lusitania On Our Own Terms And Without Delay; Wilson To Act Quickly If She Refuses
May Not Be Able To Keep Out Of War And Maintain Our Honor, Says Wilson; Middle West Cheers His Speeches
New Zeppelin Raid On Paris Fails; 24 Dead, 30 Injured In Saturday’s Raid; Majority Are Women And Children
FEBRUARY
Navy Ready For War If It Comes, President Tells Chicago Audiences; Great Ovation To Him At Milwaukee
German Raider’s Prize Crew Bring British Steamer Appam To Norfolk; Elude All Foes Crossing Atlantic
Appam’s Captives To Be Freed Today; Count Dohna Named As Raider Captain; Conflict Over Liner’s Status Begins
Canadian Parliament House Burns; 6 Persons Dead; $5,000,000 Loss; Fire May Have Been Caused By Bomb
Germany Delivers A New Note; Lusitania Case Hinges On ‘Legality’ Washington Officials Are Hopeful
Washington Now Believes Crisis Over Lusitania Sinking Is Past; Outline Of Germany’s New Offer
Germany Admits Full Liability For Loss Of Americans On Lusitania And Our Right To Claim Indemnity
Lusitania Case Before Cabinet Today; ‘Nearly Settled,’ Says Senator Stone; Berlin Still Takes Pessimistic View
Lusitania Terms Are Agreed Upon, Germany Admitting Full Liability; Berlin Now To Send A Formal Vote
Change Of A Word Needed To Settle Lusitania Case
Secretary Of War Garrison Resigns After Dispute With The President Over Defense And Philippine Bill
President Leaves Capital On Yacht To Select A Successor To Garrison; Goethals, Baker And Polk Mentioned
House Democrats Call Upon Kitchin To Lead Fight For Preparedness Or Make Way For Speaker Clark
Germans Make Five Assaults At Hill In Artois
Germans Battle To Hold Heights, The Key To Lille
America To Hold That Liners May Arm For Defense
German Order To Sink Armed Ships Holds Up The Lusitania Settlement; United States Must Have New Pledge
Germany Must Give New Pledge Of Safety At Sea
Berlin Pledges Covered Only Unarmed Ships
Teuton Envoys’ Methods Here Arouse Wrath
German Fliers Drop Bombs On English Towns
Wilson Confers With Leaders On Foreign Policy
9 Dead, 65 Hurt In Triple Wreck On The New Haven
Germans Hurl 280,000 Men At Verdun; Battle Now Raging On 25-Mile Front; Berlin Reports Piercing Line 2 Miles
Germans Drive Back French Wings, Taking Town Six Miles From Vurdun; Kaiser Reported At Battle Front
President’s Stand Halts Congress; Restates Policy To House Delegation, Declaring Time Will Vindicate Him
French Recapture Verdun Fort Which Germans Took By Assault; Battle Goes On With Heavy Losses
German Guns Blow Up Verdun Forts; Four Shots Destroyed Douaumont; Single Shot Levels A Second Fort
German Drive At Verdun Checked; Battle Still Rages At Douaumont Where Kaiser’s Force Is Hemmed In
MARCH
President Startles Congress; Demands Vote On Armed Liners To Clarify Our Foreign Policy
Rumors Of German Staff Dissensions As Battle Slackens Before Verdun; Kaiser And Crown Prince Leave Front
President Denies He Favors War As Gore Charges In Senate Debate; Britain’s Orders To Armed Liners
Senate Tables Gore’s Resolution; House Votes Today On Direct Issue Of Right Of Travel On Armed Ships
French At Night Regain Douaumont But Germans Again Enter Village And Fourth Day’s Battle Is Intense
9-Inch Shells Now Falling In Verdun But Germans Advance No Further; Northcliffe At Front, Sees Victory
Turkey Makes Overtures To Russia; Neutral Nations To Try For Peace; Germans Gain In New Verdun Drive
President Wins By Vote Of 276 To 142 In Final Test Of Armed Liner Issue; 93 House Republicans Support HIm
French Check Germans West Of Verdun; Retake Most Of The Corbeaux Wood, But Lose Village Of Regneville
Plan To Send A Force Into Mexico To Punish Villa Raiders For Killing 17 Americans In Columbus, New Mexico
Funston To Lead 5,000 Men To Mexico With Orders To Capture Villa Band, Now Menacing American Colonists
Troops Moving On Mexican Border; May Be Across, Washington Says; Rumored Revolt Against Carranza
Carranza Forbids Villa Pursuit Without Same Right For Mexico; Funston Awaits Patrol Troops
Pershing Now At Head Of 3,500 Men, First Force To Cross Into Mexico; Agreement Made With Carranza
Carranzaistas Race To Catch Villa; Funston Hides Troop Movements; Carranza Won By Wilson’s Answer
Our Army Has Entered Mexico In Two Columns, 4,000 Men In One; Carranza Troops Go With Them
Gen. Pershing’s Columns Push On Twenty Miles In Pursuit Of Villa; Reports Of Sniping Unconfirmed
Our Cavalry Near Casas Grandes; Carranza Commander Is Forbidden To Let Troops Pass Through City
American Troops Chasing Villa To Mountains From Casas Grandes; Bandit Seeks Ammunition Stores
Villa Is Hemmed In At Babicora; Pershing Has Made 110-Mile Dash; Carranza Troops Now Face Test
Mexicans Fight Villa To Drive Him To The Advancing Americans; Carranza For Full Co-Operation
Pershing Sends A Flying Column To Cruces, Where Villa, Fleeing, Is Again Attacked By Mexicans
Gen. Herrera And 2,000 Troops Reported To Have Joined Villa; Gen. Funston Orders Precautions
Villa Surrounded Near Namiquipa; Carranza Force Twice Defeats Him, And Americans Close In On His Rear
Ring Closing In On Villa At El Oso; Pershing’s Troops Using Railway; Bandit Turned Back From Passes
Villa Evades Pursuing Troops; Pershing Needs No Greater Force; Wilson Denounces Alarmist Talk
Pershing’s Men Still On Villa’s Trail Advance 230 Miles Into Mexico; Bandit Broke Carranzista Ring
Cavalry Half A Day Behind Villa; Pershing Advances His Base; Pursuing Bandit To The South
Dodd Hunts Villa From New Base West Of Sierras
New Submarine War Brings America To Verge Of A Crisis With Berlin; Germany’s Acts Amaze Washington
Villa Massacres 172 In Garrison At Guerrero And Then Turns North; Pursuers Are Closing In On Him
APRIL
Our Cavalry Routs Villa Band After Riding 55 Miles In 17 Hours; 30 Slain; Villa Escapes, Wounded
Villa’s Carriage Tracks In Snow Followed By Dodd’s Cavalrymen; Aviators Scan Mountain Wilds
Zeppelins Make Two More Raids On England And Have Killed 59 Or More In Last Three Nights
French Regain A Foothold In Vaux, Winning Most Of Area Lost Sunday, But Lose Ground West Of The Meuse
Our Troops Kill 30 Villistas In Fight Near Aguascalientes; Railroad Problem Is Pressing
Will Yield No ‘Arms Of Defense,’ Chancellor Tells The Reichstag; Sussex Torpedoed, Say U.S. Navy Men
Funston Calls For More Troops On The Border
Britain Spurns Berlin Peace Terms; German Parties Back Chancellor; Wilson Wants Answer From Berlin
Germany Denies Sussex Attack; Wilson Soon To Pass On Evidence; Gerard Expresses Faith In Berlin
Sussex Denial Proves A Puzzle To The Cabinet
Germans Hurl Fresh Hosts At Verdun; Penetrate French Lines On Hill 295 But Fail In Other Furious Assaults
German Faith Broken, Cabinet Agrees In The Recent Submarine Disasters; Action Waits On Further Evidence
Germany Denies Attack On Sussex; But Tells Of Hitting Another Boat, Same Time And Place, Same Result
Mexicans Fire On Our Men, Kill Many; Carranza Reports Second Heavy Fight, Again Urges Americans To Withdraw
Mexicans Attack A Supply Train; Lansing To Treat With Carranza While American Troops Go On
Wilson Fixes Terms As A Basis For Negotiation Toward Recall Of Our Expedition From Mexico
Report Villa Dead And Body Found, Showing That He Died Of Wound; Carranzistas Attacked Our Men
Doubt Of Villa’s Death Grows; Reports From Mexico Delayed; Treachery At Parral Charged
President Will Address Congress On The Crisis With Germany Today; Both Houses Suddenly Summoned
President Addresses Congress And Notifies Germany That Submarine Warfare On Merchantmen Must Stop Or We Shall Be Compelled To Sever Relations With Her
Bernstorff Works To Avoid A Break, But Political Situation In Germany May Prevent Meeting Our Demands
Washington Frowns On Berlin’s Hint Of Delay In Considering Demands; Both Capitals Admit Crisis Is Grave
Chancellor Hurries Back To Berlin, It Is Supposed, With Kaiser’s Reply; Answer Expected By Wednesday
Berlin Believes The Crisis Is Past; Kaiser’s Reply Is Already There; Expected To Prevent Break With Us
Berlin Ready To Reaffirm Pledges, May Balk At Further Limiting U-Boats; Kaiser Again To Consider The Reply
Troops Crush Revolt In Dublin; Take Post Office Seized By Rioters; Many Killed In Street Fighting
Lansing Issues Armed Ship Decree To Forestall Any Parley By Berlin; Hint Of Further Delay By Germany
Irish Revolt Spreads West And South; Whole Island Now Under Martial Law; Colonial Irish Roused Against Rebels
Troops Seize Dublin Rebel Positions, Liberty Hall Gone, Trenches Taken; Eyewitnesses Describe Outbreak
Dublin Revolt Is Near Collapse; Post Office Rebels Seized Is Burned; Wimborne Tells Story Of Rising
MAY
Irish Rebel Leaders Surrender, Ordering Followers To Disarm; Countess Markievicz A Prisoner
Berlin Says Relations With Us Are Viewed ‘With Less Apprehension’ As Gerard Ends Visit To Kaiser
Gen. Scott Gains Points In Parley With Gen. Obregon
Four Irish Rebel Leaders Executed; Three Others Get 3 Years In Prison; Birrell Resigns As Irish Secretary
Berlin’s Answer Handed To Gerard; Washington Still In Dark, But Ready For A Break If Terms Are Not Met
Germany Agrees To Modify Submarine War, But Insists We Oppose Britain’s Blockade; Wilson May Wait To See If Pledge Is Kept
President Waits To See If Germans Will Observe New Submarine Order; Berlin Public Thinks Break Averted
Villistas Kill 6, Wound 2, Kidnap 1, In Raid On Texas Border Towns; Four Cavalry Troops In Pursuit
President Wilson In Final Note To Germany Accepts Promise Of New Submarine Policy, But Rejects Any Condition As To Blockade
4,500 Militia Called For Mexico; 4,000 More Regulars Also To Go; Coast Artillery Force Depleted
Berlin Hails Note As Ending Crisis; Admits The Sussex Was Torpedoed; Punishes Captain; Offers Indemnity
Border Conference Abruptly Ended; Carranza Insists On A Time Limit; Wilson Will Keep Troops In Mexico
Oral Agreement To Prevent Raids On Mexico Border
136,683 Earnest Americans Emphasize Demand For Preparedness In Parade That Marches For 12 Hours
Peace Craving Spreads In Germany, Hear Wilson May Offer To Mediate; Poincare Says Peace Hints Are Futile
Casement’s Plot Made In Germany Bared In Court
We Should Keep Out Of The War To Help Europe Reinstate Peace, Wilson Says In Press Club Speech
Our Cavalry Kill 5 Bandits, Seize 2; Rescue Captives
Seymour Wires Were Tapped To Catch Morgan Clerk Who Sold War Secrets; Mayor Denounces Thompson’s Meddling
Woods Tells Of Police Wiretapping; National Issues In It, Says Marshall; Resolution In Congress For An Inquiry
Italians Abandon The Santo Ridge, Flanked By Foe
Cossacks Join British On Tigris; Rome Expects Great Allied Drive; Furious Battle Rages At Verdun
French Are Back In Douaumont; Storm Trenches
Catholic Priests Conspired To Wreck His Administration, Declares Mitchel; City Officers Indicted For Wiretapping
Thompson Committee Hears Mayor Read The Details Of Conversations Heard Over Priests’ Telephone Wires
Priests Deny The Mayor’s Charges; His Tapped Wire Records Falsified To Justify Himself, They Declare
America Will No Longer Tolerate Illegal Seizure Of Mails At Sea, Lansing Warns Britain And France
America Ready To Join A Peace League, Says Wilson, After Europe Has Ended The War As Its Interests Demand
Capital Dissects President’s Idea Of Peace League
Berlin Limits Mediation To Proposals; Won’t Have Dictation Of Peace Terms; Expects New Crops To End Foes’ hopes
100,000 Cheer Col. Roosevelt At Kansas City
JUNE
Carranza Demands Immediate Withdrawal Of The United States Troops From Mexico And Challenges Our Motives In Staying
Leaders Say It Will Be Hughes Or Roosevelt
25 Warships With 7500 Men Lost In Battle Off Denmark; British Fleet Has 14 Vessels Sunk And The Germans 11; Germany Acclaims It A Victory, But England Is Calm
British Now Claim Success In Great Sea Fight; Beatty Held And Jellicoe Routed Foe, Says London; Berlin Denies Defeat; Westfallen Reported Lost
British Admiralty Claims Victory; Puts German Losses At 18 Vessels; Says Berlin’s Reports Are False
‘America First, Allegiance Undivided’ Says Hughes To Girl Graduates; Cortelyou Goes To Act For Colonel
Kitchener And Staff Perish At Sea; Lost On Cruiser, Perhaps Torpedoed; England Suspects Spies Of The Deed
Republicans To Discuss Harmony With Progressive Committee Today; Conventions Hold First Sessions
Conferees Meet Without Result; Republicans Begin Balloting Today; If No Nomination, To Confer Again
Hughes, With 328 1/2 Votes, Leads On Second Ballot, Then His Opponents Force An Adjournment, Peace Conference Again Fails To Reach Agreement
Hughes Accepts Republican Nomination For President; Declares For Upholding American Rights On Land And Sea; Roosevelt, Named By Moose, Declines; He’s ‘Out Of Politics’
Dubno Fortress Falls To Russians; Whole Austrian Line Is Crumbling; 108,000 Prisoners Taken In 8 Days
Stronger Mexican Policy Promised Handling Of European War Defended In Platform To Be Adopted At St. Louis
Wilson Sends Anti-Dumping Tariff Plant To Be Inserted In St. Louis Platform; Convention Assembles At Noon Today
Democrats Cheer Lustily For Peace As Glynn Eulogizes The President For Keeping Us Out Of European War
Democrats At Midnight Renominate Wilson And Marshall; Fight Over Platform And Adjourn Until 11 A. M. Today; Hear Bryan And Cheer The President’s Work For Peace
Carranza Threatens Open Warfare If Our Army Makes Further Move; Crisis With Mexico Brought Nearer
American Troops Again Enter Mexico; Carranza Sends Word He Will Attack; Wilson In Night Conference On Crisis
Wilson Calls Militia From All States For Mexico; 100,000 Men To Mobilize; Warships Also Going; Border Disorders Continue As Bandit Chase Ends
Wilson Will Flatly Reject Mexico’s Demands Today; Carranza Tells Times Americans Must Not Enter; State guard Quickly Begins Mobilization In Force
Carranza Demands Rejected; Conflict Believed Near; Pershing’s Forces Make Ready For Expected Attack; New York Guard Offers To Start For Border At Once
American Cavalry Ambushed By Carranza Troops; Scores Including Mexican General, Reported Slain; Pershing Shifts Army; Washington Expects Break
Our Men Say Mexican Attack Was Unprovoked; Captured Guide Counted 13 American Dead; Lansing Tells Latin America Our Plans
Massacre Of Two Troops In Carrizal Ambush Feared; Pershing’s Search Parties Fail To Report Survivors; Washington Issues New Rush Order For The Militia
First American Survivors Describe Carrizal Fight; President Demands Prompt Release Of Prisoners; Wood Orders New York Militia To Start Wednesday
President Sends Virtual Ultimatum To Carranza; Will Address Congress; Start Militia South Today; Capt. Morey Rescued, Wrote Story Of Carrizal Fight
Rushing War Measures Pending Mexico’s Decison; Morey Says His Negro Troopers Faced Death Singing; Advance Of State Troops To The Border Has Begun
Washington Gets Hint Carranza Will Refuse; Three City Regiments Speeding Toward The Border; Roosevelt Organizing An Army Division Of His Own
Carranza Orders Captive Soldiers Freed; Immediate War Averted, Washington Thinks; But Large Questions Are Left Unsettled
Captive Soldiers, Back, Charge Mexicans Bayoneted Wounded; Our Demands Not Fully Met
JULY
No War Unless Necessary, Says Wilson; Carranza In Defiant Statement Charges America With Bad Faith
British Smash 7 Miles Of Foe’s Line, Take 2 Towns and 2,000 Prisoners; French Join Attack, Take 3 Towns
Allies Forge Ahead On The Somme; Take Fricourt, Frise And Curlu; 9,500 Germans Captured In 2 Days
French Thrust Nears Peronne, Capturing Five Towns On The Way; British Win La Boisselle, Push On
Allies Drive Steadily Forward; French Capture Two More Towns; Toll Is 14,000 Germans And 40 Guns
French Advance On 7-Mile Front; Reach The Outskirts Of Peronne And Cut The Railway To Chaulnes
Allies Slacken Their Somme Drive In Preparation For Another Stroke As Russians Increase Their Blows
British Crush In The German Line At Five Points By New Offensive Teuton Lines In Russia Retreating
New French Stroke Wins 2 Towns; British Join And Gain Half A Mile; Russians Push On Toward Kovel
German U-Boat Reaches Baltimore, Having Crossed Atlantic In 16 Days; Has Letter From Kaiser To Wilson
Giant U-Boat Held To Be A Trader; Unarmed And Brings Only Dyestuffs; Captain Tells Of Trip; More Coming
British Push On Into Contalmaison, Get Grip On Mametz And Trones Woods; 22,000 Captives In West, 271,000 In East
British Again Push Germans Back, Retaking Whole Of Mametz Wood; Russians Press The Fight For Kovel
Allies May Grant Peace To Austria; Russia Is Willing To Discuss Terms; Czar’s Cabinet To Join Him In Field
British Capture German Second Line In Fierce Charge On Four-Mile Front And Hold Gains Against All Attacks
British Cut The German’s Third Line In Faureaux Wood And Reach Pozieres; Using Cavalry Now To Scatter Foe
Preparing New Battle Lines In The West; Portugal Sending An Army To Aid Allies; Truce Suggested For German Election
British Approach German Third Line By An Advance On 1,500-Yard Front; Russians Defeat Linsingen’s Army
British Gain North Of Ovillers; Germans Launch Fierce Attack At Longueval And Delville Wood
British Pushed Back By Hard Attacks But Recover Most Of Ground Lost; Russians Now Threaten Hungary
French Take More German Defenses And Capture 2,900 Men On The Somme; British Fight Ahead For 1,000 Yards
British Advance Into Foureaux Wood Checked By Heavy Counterattacks; Russians Again Defeat Foe On Lipa
Russians Pierce Hindenburg’s Line; Take 12,300 Prisoners In The South; Sazonoff Out As Foreign Minister
British Strike Another Hard Blow Along Whole Of Their Somme Front; Fight Into Pozieres And Guillemont
Irish Issue Threatens Cabinet Crisis In The Midst Of The British Advance; Lloyd George Offers His Resignation
Lingsingen Stops The Russian Drive; Tells Times Foe Can’t Get Through; Turkish Army Is Coming To His Aid
British Occupy Whole Of Pozieres; Russians Take Erzingan From Turks; Linsingen Describes Kovel Situation
Delville Wood Won By British In Fierce Fighting
Russians Take Brody, Menace Lemberg; Break The German Line In Volhynia; British Win Long-Contested Ground
Munitions Explosions Shake New York; Wreck $7,000,000 Jersey Storage Plant; Many Killed, Alarm And Damage Here
Munitions Explosions Cause Loss Of $20,000,000; 2 Known To Be Dead, Many Missing, 35 Hurt; The Harbor Raked By Shrapnel For Hours
AUGUST
Russians Cross The Stokhod River On 27-Mile Front In Drive At Kovel; Haig Says Allies Are Winning Now
Germany Defies Foes’ Hunger War As Second Year Of Conflict ends; Allies See Teuton Strength Waning
Casement Put To Death For High Treason
Interboro Gets Loyalty Pledge From Trainmen
Strike Begins On City Surface Lines; Police Called For Disorder In An Hour; Threaten Tie-Up Of Every Transit Line
All Surface Cars In 4 Boroughs Stop; Fear Of Night Riots Causes Shutdown; Companies Promise Service Again Today
Great Car Strike May Be Settled Today; Shonts And Mahon Agree On The Terms; Both Directors And Strikers To Vote
Shonts Makes Terms With Strikers, But Union Fails To Win Recognition; Lines To Resume Operation At Once
Allies Win 4-Mile Front On Somme; Italians Take Gorizia Bridgehead; Russians Close In On Stanislau
Italian Flag Over Gorizia; Victors Push On
Italians Push On, Capture Village East Of Gorizia
Czar’s Army Takes Stanislau; Italians Occupy Doberdo Plateau; French Win A Ridge And A Quarry
French Smash The German Line On 4-Mile Front
President To Avert Railway Strike, Calls Both Sides To White House Before They Take Final Action
President Halts Railroad Strike; Will Meet Both Sides Again Today; Puts Burden Of Concession On Roads
President To Name R.R. Peace Terms; Will Demand Mutual Concessions; Calls 600 Union Chairmen To Capital
Allies Somme Attack Has Failed, German Commander In Chief Asserts; Yet New Drive wins Two-Mile Front
Somme Fight The Real Death Grapple Of The War And May Decide Conflict, Is German View Of Terrific Struggle
New Combined Attack On The Somme Nets Allies Gains On A Wide Front; French Win More Ground At Verdun
Wilson’s Peace Plan Again Rejected, He Summons 63 More R.R. Presidents; Calls 8-Hour Day The Worker’s Right
Both Sides Gain In Saloniki Fight 150 Miles Wide
Railroads Again Balk At Wilson Terms; Urge That Workers’ Demands Go Before A Public Tribunal For Final Decision
Rumanian Army Mobilized For War As Five Allies Strike In Balkans; Russians In Force Join The Serbians
Bulgars Wipe Out 2 Greek Garrisons; Heroic Defense Sets Greece Aflame; Volunteers Flock To Resist Invasion
French Take All Maurepas And Push On; British Tightening Grip On Thiepval; Russia Ready To Strike In The Balkans
Near Crisis On Railway Strike; Railroad Heads Propose New Terms; Men Insist On Ending Negotiations
Railways Firm And Men Belligerent; President Seeks Help From Congress As The National Strike Looms Nearer
Italy Declares War On Germany; Rome Expects Rumania To Follow; Bulgars In Kavala Shelled From Sea
Rumania In War, Attacks Austria; Germany Declares War In Answer; Europe Expects Greece To Fight
Wilson Goes to Congress For Law To Avert Railway Strike And Make Such Dangers Impossible In Future
Congress Leaders Hope To Avert Strike By A Quick Eight-Hour Law; Guardsmen Coming To Keep Order
SEPTEMBER
Railroad Strike Crisis Passes; Congress To Give the 8-Hour Day, Unions To Suspend Strike Order
House Passes Railway 8-Hour Bill; Senate To Take Same Action Today; Measure Denounced In Both Debates
8-Hour Bill Passed, Signature Today; Railway Strike Order Is Rescinded; Roads To Begin Court Fight At Once
Allies Smash German Somme Front, Take 3 Towns, Over 2,000 Men, 62 Guns; Greek King Switches To Entente
Interboro Rejects Demands Of Union; Prepares For Subway-Elevated Strike; Mayor Asked To Give Police Protection
Allies Drive the Somme Wedge Further; British Now A Mile beyond Guillemont; French Nearing Peronne From North
Subway And Elevated Strike Is On; N.Y. Railways Surface Cars Stop; Strikebreakers Running Trains
Strike Affects Only Street Cars; Subway And Elevated Run As Usual; Strikers Feel They Have Failed
Tinterboroa Strike Over, Says Shonts; Surface Lines Offer Jobs To Strikers; Mayer Seeks Cause Of Broken Pledges
Second And Third Av. And Bronx Strike; Carmen Appeal To President Gompers To Call To Their Aid 800,000 Unionists
Seek City-Wide Strike Of Unionists; Cars In 3 Countries Stop At Dark; Subway And Elevated Swamped
Strike Grip On Transit Tightening; Jammed Interboro Trains Less Sure; City-Wide Strike Threat Wanes To 70,000
Shonts Refuses To Arbitrate Contracts Pledges Faith To His Loyal Employes Despite Public Service Board Demand
Mayor Finds Transit Strike Deadlock; Roads Determined Not To Arbitrate; All City Lines Make Gains In Service
Whitridge Denies Anti-Union Compact; Mayor Blames Carmen’s Leaders; Lines Hold Their Own In Strike
British Pierce German Lines 2 Miles, Smash 6-Mile Front, Taking 2,300 Men; Three Towns Taken; Combles Doomed
British Enlarge their Somme Gains As Harassed Germans Slacken Fire; 4,000 Men, 56 Guns Taken In Two Days
French Smash Lines South Of Somme, Capture Two Towns And 700 Prisoners; British Troops Take Mouquet Farm
Bulgarian Right Wing Crumpled, Florina Captured, Monastir Menaced; Allies Again Pushed Forward Somme Line
Bacon Probably Wins For Senator In A Close Contest With Calder; Whitman Carries Moose Primary
Calder’s Majority Is 6,750 With 333 Districts Missing
Mayor Ready To Use Troops In Strike; Warns Unions Against Sympathy Tieup; Leaders May Order Walk-Out Today
Labor Answers Mayor’s Appeal By Ordering Walkout Wednesday Of Every Unionist In New York City
Workers Show Far Less Enthusiasm Than Leaders For Sympathy Strike; 59,500 Ordered To Quit; Few Will Obey
British Take Zeppelin Crew Alive; Another Crew Perish With Airship; Bombs Kill 28 In London, Hurt 99
Allies Take A Deadly Grip On Combles In Sweeping Advance North And South; Capture 3 Villages, Many Prisoners
Combles Overwhelmed By The Allies; Thiepval And Gueudecourt Also Won; 3,500 Prisoners And Much Booty Taken
Greek King Yields, Will Enter War; Rebel Warships Join Entente Fleet; New Allied Strokes Win On Somme
British Capture Point Dominating Valley Of Ancre
Chancelor’s Speech Leaves Berlin Uncertain On Submarine Warfare; Press Criticises Our Neutrality
OCTOBER
Wilson Thrills Crowd; Bitterly Flays Opponents
British Sweep On Toward Bapaume, Taking Trenches On 3,000-Yard Front; Russians Resume Drive At Lemberg
Rumanians Flank Mackensen By Crossing Danube
Mackensen Quits Dobrudja Forts, Rome Report Says
Mackensen Coup Drives Rumanian Army Over Danube
Girl Drives Auto With Uncle Dead And Father Shot
Rumor Of Gerard Peace Mission Quickly Denied
German U-Boat Reaches Newport; War Craft Brings Embassy Message; In Port 3 Hours And Sails Away
German Submarines Sink 6 To 9 Ships Off Nantucket; One A Liner With Many Americans, But All Are Saved; Washington Sees Grave Peril In Raids Off Our Coast
U-Boat Sent Six Ships Down, All Aboard Saved; Supply Boat Believed To Be With The Raider; Wilson Insists German Pledges Must Be Kept
President And Lansing Confer On New Issues Raised By U-53; Gerard To Tell Of Berlin Plans
President Holds U-53 Has Raised No New Issue
Reichstag Hears Plain Peace Talk; Members Mention Restored Belgium And The Dardanelles For Russia
Warships Scout Coast For U-Boat And Supply Base
King Of Rumania To Lead Armies Against Teutons
Hidden Explosive Shakes Wide Area On Maine Coast
French Stroke Gains A Grip On Sailly-Saillisel
Athens In A Riot Against The Allies, Whose Sailors Occupy Chief Points; King Urged His Advisers To Flee
King Of Greece Tries To Placate Entente Powers
Balkan Blunders Charged To Allies
French Officer Rules Athens
British Advance As Foes Attack French Lines
Rumanians In Retreat On The Dobrudja Front
Mackensen Captures Constanza And Cuts Railroad To Cernavoda In Great Offensive In Dobrudja
French Break German Verdun Line On 4-Mile Front, Advancing 2 Miles; Rumanians Lose Three More Towns
Cernavoda, Head Of Danube Bridge, Taken By Mackensen In Dobrudja; Falkenhayn Captures Vulcan Pass
Plan Villa Raid To Injure Wilson, Baker Charges
Mackensen Again Strikes At Foes
Wilson Sees Peril In Republican Row
Rumanians Take Alpine Corps Guns
President Denies Lodge’s Charge; No Postscript To Lusitania Note ‘Every Written OR Contemplated By Me’
NOVEMBER
Six Americans Lost In The Marina; She Had No Warning, Survivors Say; Deutschland Reaches New London
Wilson To Hold Berlin To Pledge In Marina Case
Great Throng In Garden Hears Wilson Appeal For Justice To All Mankind; Hits At Wall St. In Waldorf Speech
Italians Push Drive On Trieste; Take 3,498 Men
Tariff The Theme Of Hughes’s Final Campaign Speech
Central Powers Proclaim Poland Again A Nation
Rumanians Force Mackensen Back
Election Close, Wilson 264, Hughes 251; Two States In Doubt; House May Be A Tie
Election Unsettled; Wilson 251, Hughes 247; Depends On California And Minnesota
With 272 Electoral Votes, Wilson Wins; Gets California, North Dakota, New Mexico
Wilson Now Has 276 Votes; His Plurality 400,000
Belgians Exiled For Their Good, Says Von Bissing
Times Man Visits Fort Douaumont In Rain Of Shells
British Assault Breaks Foe’s Line On 5-Mile Front
Lansing Cables Remonstrance On Exile Of Belgians
Germany Holds All Armed Ships Legitimate Prey
Fall Of Monastir Expected; Allies 4 Miles From City
Germany To Deport 300,000 Belgians; Nation Is Wild With Grief And Terror; Allies Plan Strong Counterstroke
Allies Closing In On Monastir; Gain On Struma
Ruth Law Flies 590 Miles Without Stop; Beats Both Victor Carlstrom’s Records; Due to Reach New York At 9 A.M. Today
Allied Forces Pursue Bulgars Beyond Monastir
Emperor Francis Joseph Is Dead After 68 Years On Austria’s Throne; Carl Francis Joseph Is Now Emperor
Hospital Ship Britannic Sunk; 50 Lives Lost
Hostile To Urge Peace On Britain, Says Northcliffe
Teutons Capture Turnu-Severin And Orsova
Rumanian Army Trapped In West Makes Its Escape
Teuton Armies Meet 50 Miles From Bucharest
Alexandria Lost, Rumanians Quit Alt River Line
British Destroy 2 Big Zeppelins; Both Crews Lost
Russians Start New Big Drive To Aid Rumania
DECEMBER
King Of Greece Defies The Allies; Army To Land At Piraeus Today, Ready To Take Greek Guns By Force
Russians Launch Great Offensive To Save Rumania
Peace Can Only Come With Liberty, Not While Destinies Are Ruled By Small Selfish Groups, Says Wilson
Break Comes In British War Cabinet; Asquith Advises A Reconstruction After Conference With Lloyd George
Asquith Gets Time To Rebuild Cabinet With A New War Council; Allies issue A Plea For Belgium
Asquith Out As British Premier; King Offers Post To Bonar Law; Hint Of Sweeping Changes In France
Lloyd George To Be British Premier; Teuton Hosts Occupy Bucharest; Joffre’s Retirement Considered
Cabinet Framed By Lloyd George; Labor Party Won
Greek King Mobilizing His Army To Attack Flank Of Allied Front As Teutons Try Drive From North
Call For A Dictatorship In France; Newspapers Demand ‘The Strong Man’; Deputies Propose A Smaller Cabinet
Lloyd George Names Full Cabinet, But Picks Board Of Four To Aid Him In Directing Conduct Of The War
Parliaments Of Teutonic Allies Called To Hear Statement Of ‘Worldwide, Historical Importance’
Germany And Her Allies Offer To Negotiate For Peace; No Terms Named In Notes To Neutrals And The Pope; London Skeptical, But Will Consider The Proposals
Germany Plans A Round-Table Conference At The Hague To Decide Whether Peace At This Time Is Practicable; England Will Not Lightly Disregard Germany’s Note
Berlin Says Terms Will Be Liberal; Hint Of Disarmament Put Out Here; ‘Reparation And Security,’ Says Law
Czar And Duma Reject ‘A Premature Peace’; Foreign Minister Says Decision Is Inflexible And That All Russia’s Allies Agree With Her
Russia Ready For Any Sacrifice Till Foe Offers Fair, Lasting Peace; Berlin Terms Await Conference
Germans Expect Stern Demands From Entente
Lloyd George Answers Germany Today; May Demand That Allied Territory Be Evacuated As First Step To Parley
Lloyd George Demands For Allies Complete Restitution, Full Reparation, Effectual Guarantees For Future-Surer Guarantees Than Those Germany ‘So Lightly Broke’
President Wilson Calls Upon All The Warring Nations To State The Terms Upon Which The War May Be Ended; Our Interests, Seriously Affected, Must Be Safeguarded
Washington In No Fear Of War At This Time; London Receives Wilson’s Note Coldly; Bonar Law Says Germany Must Be Curbed
Germany Likely To Submit Terms Asking Wilson To Act As Mediator; Must Push War, Says King George
We May Abandon Our Policy Of Isolation To Enter A World-Wide League Of Peace; Secretary Lansing Explains Our Position
Switzerland Supports Peace Move And Is Willing To Join World League; Other Neutrals Likely To Follow
Russia Appreciates Wilson’s Motive But Will Not Talk Peace With Germany Until ‘Right And Justice’ Win Triumph
Berlin Replies, Withholding Terms, But Again Proposes A Conference; Wilson For A Moral Peace League
Allies Agree On Reply To Germany; Czar Says Peace Now Unthinkable; Sweden Appeals To The Belligerents
Germany Wants Her Colonies Back When She Restores Other Territory; Willing To Give Peace Guarantees
Scandinavia Unites In Peace Move, Three Powers Send Note To Wilson; Gerard Cables Important Report
Allies, Replying to Teuton Proposal, Call It A ‘Sham,’ ‘Not An Offer Of Peace,’ But A ‘War Manoeuvre;’ Reparation And Guarantees Again Declared Essential
News Source: New York Times
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