President
Wilson's note and refuses to discuss peace till Germany agrees to give
'restitution, reparation and guarantees.'

1917

January

1.--Turkey declares its independence of suzerainty of European powers.

1.--Ivernia, Cunard liner, is sunk in Mediterranean.

22.--President Wilson suggests to the belligerents a 'peace without
victory.'

31.--Germany announces intention of sinking all vessels in war zone
around British Isles.

February

3.--United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. Count Von
Bernstorff is handed his passports.

7.--California, Anchor liner, is sunk off Irish coast.

13.--Afric, White Star liner, sunk by submarine.

17.--British troops on the Ancre capture German positions.

25.--Laconia, Cunard liner, sunk off Irish coast.

26.--Kut-el-Amara recaptured from Turks by new British Mesopotamian
expedition under command of Gen. Sir Stanley Maude.

28.--United States government makes public a communication from Germany
to Mexico proposing an alliance, and offering as a reward the return of
Mexico's lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

28.--Submarine campaign of Germans results in the sinking of 134 vessels
during February.

March

3.--British advance on Bapaume.

3.--Mexico denies having received an offer from Germany suggesting an
alliance.

8.--Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies.

10.--Russian Czar suspends sittings of the Duma.

11.--Bagdad captured by British forces under Gen. Maude.

11.--Revolutionary movement starts in Petrograd.

14.--China breaks with Germany.

15.--Czar Nicholas abdicates. Prince Lvoff heads new cabinet.

17.--Bapaume falls to British. Roye and Lassigny occupied by French.

18.--Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated by Germans, who retire
on an 85-mile front.

18.--City of Memphis, Illinois, and Vigilancia, American ships,
torpedoed.

19.--Alexander Ribot becomes French premier, succeeding Briand.

21.--Healdton, American ship, bound from Philadelphia to Rotterdam, sunk
without warning; 21 men lost.

26-31.--British advance on Cambrai.

April

1.--Aztec, American armed ship, sunk in submarine zone.

5.--Missourian, American steamer, sunk in Mediterranean.

6.--United States declares war on Germany.

7.--Cuba and Panama at war with Germany.

8.--Austria-Hungary breaks with United States.

9.--Germans retreat before British on long front.

9.--Bolivia breaks with Germany.

13.--Vimy, Gi