24.--Peronne, Ham and Chauny evacuated by Allies.
25.--Bapaume and Nesle occupied by Germans.
29.--General Foch chosen Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces.
April
5.--Japanese forces landed at Vladivostok.
9.--Second German drive begun in Flanders.
10.--First German drive halted before Amiens after maximum advance of 35
miles.
14.--United States Senator Stone, of Missouri, chairman of Committee on
Foreign Relations, dies.
15.--Second German drive halted before Ypres, after maximum advance of
10 miles.
16.--Bolo Pasha, Levantine resident in Paris executed for treason.
21.--Guatemala at War with Germany.
22.--Baron Von Richthofen, premier German flier, killed.
23.--British naval forces raid Zeebrugge in Belgium, German submarine
base, and block channel.
May
7.--Nicaragua at war with Germany and her allies.
19.--Major Raoul Lufberry, famous American aviator, killed.
24.--Costa Rica at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary.
27.--Third German drive begins or Aisne-Marne front of 30 miles between
Soissons and Rheims.
28.--Germans sweep on beyond the Chemin des Dames and cross the Vesle at
Fismes.
28.--Cantigny taken by Americans in local attack.
29.--Soissons evacuated by French.
31.--Marne River crossed by Germans, who reach Chateau Thierry, 40 miles
from Paris.
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