tovsk. March
4--Germany and Roumania sign armistice on German terms. March 13--German
troops occupy Odessa. March 14--All Russian congress of soviets ratifies
peace treaty. March 21--German spring offensive starts on fifty mile
front. March 22--Germans take 16,000 British prisoners and 200 guns.

March 23--German drive gains nine miles. "Mystery gun" shells Paris.
March 24--Germans reach the Somme, gaining fifteen miles. American
engineers rushed to aid British. March 25--Germans take Bapaume. March
27--Germans take Albert. March 28--British counter attack and gain;
French take three towns; Germans advance toward Amiens. March
29--"Mystery gun" kills seventy-five churchgoers in Paris on Good
Friday.

April 4--Germans start second phase of their spring drive on the Somme.
April 10--Germans take 10,000 British prisoners in Flanders. April
16--Germans capture Messines ridge, near Ypres; Bolo Pasha executed.
April 23--British and French navies "bottle up" Zeebrugge. April
26--Germans capture Mount Kemmel, taking 6,500 prisoners.

May 5--Austria starts drive on Italy. May 10--British navy bottles
up Ostend. May 24--British ship Moldavia, carrying American troops,
torpedoed; 56 lost. May 27--Germans begin third phase of drive on west
front; gain five miles. May 28--Germans take 15,000 prisoners in drive.
May 29--Germans take Soissons and menace Reims. American troops capture
Cantigny. May 30--Germans reach the Marne, fifty-five miles from Paris.
May 31--Germans take 45,000 prisoners in drive.

June 1--Germans advance nine miles; are forty-six miles from Paris. June
3--Five German submarines attack the coast and sink eleven ships.
June 5--U. S. marines fight on the Marne near Chateau Thierry. June
9--Germans start fourth phase of their drive by advancing toward Noyon.
June 10--Germans gain two miles. U. S. marines capture south end of
Belleau wood.

June 12--French and Americans start counter attack. June 15--Austrians
begin another drive on Italy and take 16,000 prisoners. June
17--Italians check Austrians on Piave river. June 19--Austrians cross
the Piave, June 22--Italians defeat Austrians on the Piave. June
23--Austrians begin great retreat across the Piave.

July 18---Gen. Foch launches allied offensive, with French, American,
British, Italian and Belgian troops. July 21--Americans and French
capture Chateau Thierry. July 30--German crown prince flees from the
Marne and withdraws army.

August 2--Soissons recaptu