Plateau
to the Brenta River.

24.--Cambrai menaced by British, who approach within three miles,
capturing Bourlon Wood.

December

1.--German East Africa reported completely conquered.

1.--Allies' Supreme War Council, representing the United States, France,
Great Britain and Italy, holds first meeting at Versailles.

3.--Russian Bolsheviki arrange armistice with Germans.

5.--British retire from Bourlon Wood, Graincourt and other positions
west of Cambrai.

6.--Jacob Jones, American destroyer, sunk by submarine in European
waters.

6.--Steamer Mont Blanc, loaded with munitions, explodes in collision
with the Imo in Halifax harbor: 1500 persons are killed.

7.--Finland declares independence.

8.--Jerusalem, held by the Turks for 673 years, surrenders to British,
under Gen. Allenby.

8.--Ecuador breaks with Germany.

10.--Panama at war with Austria-Hungary.

11.--United States at war with Austria-Hungary.

15.--Armistice signed between Germany and Russia at Brest-Litovsk.

17.--Coalition government of Sir Robert Borden is returned and
conscription confirmed in Canada.

1918

January

14.--Premier Clemenceau orders arrest of former Premier Caillaux on high
treason charge.

19.--American troops take over sector northwest of Toul.

29.--Italians capture Monte di val Belle.

February

1.--Argentine Minister of War recalls military attaches from Berlin and
Vienna.

6.--Tuscania, American transport, torpedoed off coast of Ireland: 101
lost.

22.--American troops in Chemin des Dames sector.

26.--British hospital ship, Glenart Castle, torpedoed.

27.--Japan proposes joint military operations with Allies in Siberia.

March

1.--Americans gain signal victory in salient north of Toul.

3.--Peace treaty between Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central
Powers signed at Brest-Litovsk.

4.--Treaty signed between Germany and Finland.

5.--Rumania signs preliminary treaty of peace with Central Powers.

9.--Russian capital moved from Petrograd to Moscow.

14.--Russo-German peace treaty ratified by All-Russian Congress of
Soviets at Moscow.

20.--President Wilson orders all Holland ships in American ports taken
over.

21.--Germans begin great drive on 50-mile front from Arras to La Fere.
Bombardment of Paris by German long-range gun from a distance of 76
miles.

24.--Peronne, Ham and Chauny evacuated by Allies.

25.--Bapaume and Nesle occupied by Germans.

29.--General