te Sabotino and Monte San Michele. Aug. 8--Turks force
Russian evacuation of Bitlis and Mush. Aug. 9--Italians cross Isonzo
river and occupy Austrian city of Goeritz. Aug. 10--Austrians evacuate
Stanislau; allies take Doiran, near Saloniki, from Bulgarians.

August 19--German submarines sink British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth. Aug. 24--French occupy Maurepas, north of the Somme; Russians
recapture Mush in Armenia. Aug. 27--Italy declares war on Germany;
Roumania enters war on side of allies. Aug. 29--Field Marshal von
Hindenburg made chief of staff of German armies, succeeding Gen.
von Falkenhayn. August 30--Russian armies seize all five passes in
Carpathians into Hungary.

September 3--Allies renew offensive north of Somme; Bulgarian and German
troops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania. Sept. 7--Germans and Bulgarians
capture Roumanian fortress of Tutrakan; Roumanians take Orsova,
Bulgarian city. Sept. 19--German-Bulgarian army captures Roumanian
fortress of Silistria. Sept. 14--British for first time use "tanks."
Sept. 15--Italians begin new offensive on Carso.

October 2--Roumanian army of invasion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans
and Bulgarians under Von Mackensen. Oct. 4--German submarines sink
French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner Franconia. Oct. 8--German
submarines sink six merchant steamships off Nantucket, Mass. Oct.
11--Greek seacoast forts dismantled and turned over to allies on demand
of England and France. Oct. 23--German-Bulgar armies capture Constanza,
Roumania Oct. 24--French win back Douaumont, Thiaumont field work,
Haudromont quarries, and Caillette wood near Verdun, in smash of two
miles.

November 1--Italians, in new offensive on the Carso plateau, capture
5,000 Austrians. Nov. 2--Germans evacuate Fort Vaux at Verdun. Nov.
5--Germans and Austrians proclaim new kingdom of Poland, of territory
captured from Russia. Nov. 6--Submarine sinks British passenger steamer
Arabia. Nov. 7--Cardinal Mercier protests against German deportation of
Belgians; submarine sinks American steamer Columbian. Nov. 8--Russian
army invades Transylvania, Hungary. Nov. 9--Austro-German armies defeat
Russians in Volhyina and take 4,000 prisoners.

November 13--British launch new offensive in Somme region on both sides
of Ancre. Nov. 14--British capture fortified village of Beacourt, near
the Ancre. Nov. 19--Serbian, French, and Russian troops recapture
Monastir; Germans cross Transylvania Alps and enter western Rouma