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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: May - Aug
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:51:36 -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 (Cont.)
MAY
1 - Huns enter Sebastopol
5 - Austrian Emperor closes parliament owing to disturbances.
6 - Field Marshal Lord French appointed Viceroy of Ireland.
7 - Nicaragua declares war on Germany.
8 - General Maurice changes Lloyd George and Bonar Law with making false
statements in Parliament.
9 - Cabinet crisis ends. Asquith's motion for Select Committee to enquire
into Maurice charges defeated.
10 - Obsolete cruiser Vindictive filled with cement sunk across the entrance
to Ostend Harbour, daring sequel to the equally daring raid of April 23rd.
12 - Release of Hon. H. S. Beland, formerly P.M.G. for Canada, for four
years prisoner of War in Germany. Exchanged for Von Buelow.
14 - Italian naval units enter the port of Pola and torpedo Austrian
battleship.
Rhodes Scholarship elections again postponed.
Golden wedding of Sir Wilfred and Lady Laurier.
James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald died in Paris.
15 - Allies new mine-field in the North Sea covering 22,000 squares miles
becomes operative,
"Kings' Certificate and Discharge for all ranks established.
Premier Lloyd George leaves for the Imperial Conference.
16 - Swing bridge over Suez Canal at Kaatara completed.
18 - Important and successful air-rid on Cologne.
Numerous arrests of Sinn-Feiners including De Valera and Griffiths. German
Conspiracy alleged.
Australian gain on Amiens front.
19 - Fifty-four killed and 179 injured in Hun air-raids over London.
Huns drop bombs on hospitals behind British lines in France killing over 300
persons.
27 - Huns renew big offensive on Western Front.
Italians launch an attack on Austrians ------- of Lake Garda.
29 - Desperate fighting on Aisne Front. Huns capture Soissons but are held
there.
31 - Huns reach the Marne-and are stopped there.
John Ross Robertson of the Toronto Telegram dies.
JUNE
1 - U-boat initiate North Atlantic campaign off New Jersey Coast 5 steamers
and 8 vessels sunk.
Three cent postage introduced in England after 70 years of penny postage.
6-7 - Allies make big advances in Chateau-Therry region
9 - Huns start their final Paris drive and fail.
13 - Big Allied advance in Macedonia
Many Sinn-Feiners arrested in Dublin
14 - Peru takes possession of Hun vessels.
Hun offensive on Montdidier front checked.
Turks capture Tabiz, Persia.
15 - Austrians open great offensive on Italian front. They cross the River
Piave.
Men from 49 to 51 called up in England.
17 - Admiral Sir Alfred Paget, husband of Miss Viti MacGregor, dies aged 66.
Poles under their National Flag enter the first line trenches in support of
the Allies on the Western Front.
18 - Allied troops on Italian front repulse Austrians at every point.
19 - Hun fourth offensive on west front around Rheims proves abortive.
20 - Big strikes in Vienna. Troubles throughout Austrians.
Lieut. Colonel Forbes Robertson awarded th V. C.
23 - Austrians driven across the Plave.
24 - Austrians in full retreat, 45,000 prisoners taken.
27 - Hospital ship Landovery Castle sunk by Hun Submarine 70 miles off Irish
Coast 254 lives lost including 16 Canadian nursing sisters.
First American troops landed in Italy.
29 - Successful Italian offensive.
Huns occupy Tiflis Capital of Caucasus Government.
Bolshevists surrender Black Sea Fleet to Huns.
JULY
3 - Viscount Rhonds famous and eminently successful food Controller dies
62.
Sultan Mahmoud or Mohammed V dies 73.
4 - Officially announced that United States has 1,019,115 troops in France.
6 - Silver Wedding of King George and Queen Mary-Long may they live and
reign!
Major John Purroy Mitchell former mayor of New York killed when flying in a
scout machine.
Mohammed VI proclaimed Sultan of Turkey.
Count von Mirbach, German Ambassador to Russia assassinated at Moscow.
Great uprising against Germans in Ukraine.
9 - Resignation of Chancellor Von Kuehlmann, who said that Germany could not
expect a military victor, Admiral Von Heintze succeeds him.
10 - French and Italians win great successes in Albania.
11 - Italians advance 15 miles on a 50 mile front in Albania.
French gain ground from the Marne to the Aisne.
13 - Premier Lloyd George announces that the British Dominions will have a
voice in determining terms of Peace.
14 - Fifth Hun offensive since March is held up in eight hours.
15 - Hayti declares war on Germany.
16 - Nicholas Romanoff ex-Czar reported murdered or executed in Siberia.
Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt American /air Service, son of ex-President
Roosevelt killed in France.
18 - The beginning of the end. General Foch launches big counter-offensive
on the Western Front, which swells in volume with each succeeding week and
does not cry halt till Huns haul down their flag of infamy, and their white
flag of surrender is followed by the Armistice of Nov.11th
19 - Honduras declares was on Germany.
French and Americans capture 17,000 prisoners and 360 guns.
20 - Huns retreat across the Marne" They shall not pass" becomes prophecy
fulfilled.
White Star liner Justicia, 32,234 tons sunk by torpedo off Irish coast 11
killed.
23 - President Wilson announces that Telegraph and Telephone companies will
be taken over for the duration of the war.
Nationalists resume their seats in the House of Commons.
25 - General Foch using pincer system in Soissons-Rheims salient both jaws
close in on Germans who are heavily re-inforced.
Baron Von Sussarck succeeds Von Seidler as Austrian Premier.
27 - Agreement between Ukraina nd Roumania effective.
28Allied troops cross the Ourcq River.
29 - Breach between Turkey and Germany.
30 - British Admiralty announce net gain in shipping for three months
300,000 tons.
AUG.
2 - French capture Soissons.
3 - Huns submarine sinks schooner off the coast of Maine.
Huns torpedo Hospital Ship Warilda 123 missing
Allied troops at Vladivostok
5 - Soissons-Rheims salient eliminated by the Allies.
10 - French capture Montdider
British capture Chaulnes
20 - Huns capture the schooner Triumph and use it as a Raider on the Grand
Banks
21 - French capture Lassigny
26 - British re-capture Monchy le Prenx and several other towns and
villages.
27 - French capture Roye
28 - British capture Bapaune
French take Noyon
29 - British take Comles
30 - U.S. congress passes the Man Power Bill 18 to 45
Police strike in London
Bolshevist Lenine shot not fatally.
31 - Spain takes over German interned ships.
We hope this helps someone,
Chris and John
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