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Subject: [NFLD-LAB] Newspaper Lookups and R.A.G. - Y of E for 1918 - EVENTS OF THE YE AR - EMPIRE AND ABROAD: Jan - Apr
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 05:40:09 -0700


To the List,
The Year of Events for 1918 were transcribed with the help of John
Baird.

Reprinted courtesy of Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing

From the St. John's Daily News

Tue. Dec. 31, 1918

EVENTS OF THE YEAR - EMPIRE AND ABROAD.

1917

DEC.

Dec. 29, 1917- Guatemala City destroyed by fire. Homeless number 12,500

Dec. 30. 1917- Destructive Fire in Glace Bay.


1918

JAN.

1 - Alaska joins the dry states.

2 - Former sealer Aurora lost with all hands when returning to England with
the Shackleton Relief Expedition.

4 - Explorer Steffansen reported at Herschell Island.

Hospital Ship Rawa torpedoed by Huns in Bristol Channel

5 - Premier Lloyd George makes definite statement of Britain's Peace Terms
before Trade's Union delegation.

Disastrous flood in Siam

Lord Reading succeeds Ambassador Spring Rice at Washington.

Germany recognizes the Republic of Finland.

Hun sailors and submarine assassins mutiny at Keil, 38 officers killed.

8 - President Wilson restates United States was aims enumerating 14 definite
conditions.

Hughes Ministry in Australia resigns because of defeat of Conscription.

Lithuania declares independence.

9 - New Ministry formed in Australia by Premier Hughes.

Daily Mail announces that a group of Texile men have captured Germany's
secret recipes of the Dye industry.

11 - Germans at Brest0Litvosk declare their peace proposal withdrawn.

Disastrous mining explosion at Helmerend England, 160 killed.

New admiralty Board Announced

New admiralty Wemyss First Lord.

14 - Death of former Congressman Gardner.

Zero weather in New York.

Yarmouth bombed from sea for five minutes, 4 killed.

Former Premier Caillaux of France arrested for Treason.

15 - Hungarian Cabinet resigns.

16 - Fuel famine in United States

17 - Turkestan proclaimed a Federal Republic.

Francoeur resolution proposing withdrawal of Quebec from Confederation
introduced in the Quebec Legislature.

18 - Man-Power bill passes second reading in Commons after a secret session
without division.

19 - President Wilson endorses Dr. Garfield Shut-down Fuel Order.

20 - British sink the Breslau and beach the Goeben at the entrance to the
Dardenells.

Bolshevists dissolve the Constituent Assembly at Petrograd.

General Sir Beauchamp Duff suicides, 63.

21 - First "heatless day" in New York and zero weather.

Sir William Carson resigns from the war Cabinet.

22 - France charters 30 Hun Ships interned in Brazil.

23 - Francoeur Confederation Secession motion withdrawn

Mining tragedy at Stellarton, N. S. About 100 killed.

25 - Chancellor Von Huertling says cession of Alsace-Lorraine out of the
question.

Mackay, Queensland, destroyed by cyclone, many fatalities. Loss $4,000,000.

26 - Revolution in Finland.

27 - Cunarder Andnia torpedoed off Ulster Coast.

28 - Two air-raid on London, 47 killed

29 - Italian gains in Asiago Plateau.

30 - Strikes in Hunland, 700,000 out in Berlin.

Big air-raid over Paris, 45 killed 207 injured.


FEB.

1 - Half million dollar fire in C. P.R. Block Winnipeg

2 - Supreme War Council at Versailles close for day session.

John L. Sullivan, former Champion Pugilist dies, 59

3 - Church property in Russia confiscated.

4 - Halifax Disaster Enquiry results in blame being attached to Captain and
Pilot who were arrested, Commander Wyatt is censured.

6 - Cunard Liner Tuscania torpedoed off Irish Coat 264 lives lost.

9 - Ukranians sign peace with Central Powers.

10 - Russians at Brest-Litovsk declare war at an end order general
demobilization.

11 - Death of former Sultan Abdul Hamid, Abdu the Damned of History.

12 - Eight session of British Parliament opens.

14 - Sir Cecil Spring-Rice recently British Ambassador at Washington, died
suddenly at Ottawa.

15 - Hun destroyers raid Dover and sink eight patrol boats.

Marshal Joffre enrolled amongst the Immortals.

16 - Hun aircraft raid on London.

General Wilson succeeds General Sir William Robertson as Chief of Staff.

18 - Kiev Capital of Ukraine captured by Bolshevists, 4,000 killed.

19 - Suicide of General Kaledines, Hetman of the Don Cossacks.

22 - British capture Jericho.

24 - Former Governor Sir H. A. Blake dies 78.

25 - Revolution in Costa Rica.

Suicide of Grand Duke of Mecklinburg-Stretlz.

Huns capture Reval ,Russian naval base on the Gulf of Finland.

26 - Carnegie Corporation give a million dollars to McGill University.

British Hospital Ship Glenart Castle Torpedoed, 144 lost.


MAR.

1 - Archbishop of York arrives in New York.

2 - S.S. Calgarian Torpedoed off Irish Coast.

3 - Russo-German Peace Treaty signed.

4 - Commons honour late General Maude, Grant of $125,000 to his widow.

5 - Peace Treaty signed between Rumania and the Austro huns.

6 - John Redmond, loyalist and Nationaist Leader died aged 67.

Dr. Suarez elected President of Colombia.

7 - Cardinal Serafini died, age 66.

Peace Treaty between Finland and Germany

British make three mile advance in Palestine.

Big air raid over London.

8 - Air raid over Paris.

10 - British airmen bombard Stuttgart.

11 - Renewed air-rids over Paris.

12 - British aviators bombard Coblenz.

Hun airships attack Yorkshire Coast.

John Dillon succeeds John Redmond as Nationalist Leader.

13 - Turks enter Ezerum.

Huns enter Odessa.

18 - Dominion of Canada Parliament assembles.

British bomb Mennheim.

20 - Britain and United States take over Dutch Ships in their ports totaling
a million tons.

21 - Hun's last gamble commences, extends over a fifty mile front.

Intensive artillery, bombardment shakes houses in England where detonations
are distinctly heard.

Naval action off Dunkirk. 3 enemy destroyers and 2 torpedo boats sunk.

22 - British cross the Jordan.

Huns force back British defences on Western Front.

23 - Paris bombarded by long-distance guns 76 miles off at St. Gobain.

Capt. William Redmond elected at Waterford.

Death of Sir Collingwood Schrieber 87.

Ex-Premier Asquith announces that he is still leader of the Liberal Party.

24 - Huns cross the Somme.

French relieve British at Noyon end of the line.

25 - Huns retake Baoaume, Peronne Guiscard and other places.

26 - Noye, Noyon and other towns occupied by enemy.

27 - Desperate German assaults on whole British line

Russians recapture Odessa.

Lloyd George urges United States to hurry reinforcements to France.

28 - Great British victory in Mesoptamia, Turkish fore virtually destroyed,.
3.000 prisoners taken.

French retire from Montdidier

29 - General Foch appointed Generalissimo of Allied armies on Western Front.

Anti-Conscription riots in Quebec.

Paris again bombarded by long-range guns, 75 killed and 90 injured by shells
falling on a church.

Extreme depth of German wedge reaches 37 miles.

30 - Chancellor Burwash, D. D., dies in Toronto.

APR.

1 - British capture German positions on Luce River. Hun drive stopped.

Justic Drysdale place blame on the Mont Blanc for Halifax Distaster.

4 - Huns resume offensive towards Amiens.

Japanese land at Vladivostok.

Irish convention closes.

6 - British recapture position north of Albert.

Third Liberty Loan launched in United States.

9 - Irish Convention report tabled in House of Commons.

Man-power Bill 18 to 51 introduced by Premier Lloyd George.

Huns launch attack on Belgian Front.

Irish Catholic Bishop protest against Conscription.

10 - British recapture Givenchy

11 - British evacuate Armentieres.

12 - Field Marshal Haig halts retreat.

Terrific fighting in Flanders.

14 - Rioting in Vienna.

15 - Huns take Neuve Eglise

Huns enter Helsingfors, Capital of Finland.

Baron Burian succeeds Count Czernin as Austrain Foreign Minister.

16 - Huns take part of Messines Ridge.

Bolo Pasha, super-spy executed in Paris.

Man-power Bill passes third reading.

17 - British retire from certain lines in Ypres Salient, but take successful
offensive in the region of Arras.
Huns capture Poelcapelle and Langemarck.

18Viscount Milner succeeds Lord Derby as Secretary of War.
Derby appointed Plenipotentiary of France.

Austin Chamberlain joins the Cabinet.

19 - Man power Bill becomes law.

Huns complete the destruction of Rheims.

21 - British gain around Givenchy, Fertubert, and Albert.

22 - Baron von Ruhthofen, celebrated Hun aviator, killed.

23 - British sink concrete vessels in daring operations at Zeebrugge and
Ostend, bottling up the U-boat bases.

25 - Terrific fighting in Amiens and Ypres regions.

26 - Kemmel Hill, near Ypres, captured by Huns.


29 - Edward Shott, M.P. succeeds H. E. Duke as Chief Secretary of Ireland.


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Chris and John

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