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April 23-Germans force way across Ypres canal and take 1,600 prisoners.
April 29-British report regaining of two-thirds of lost ground in Ypres battle.
May 7-Liner Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of more than 1,000 lives. 102 Americans.
May 9 French advance two and one-half miles against German forces north of Arras, taking 2,000 prisoners.
May 23-Italy declares war on Aus- tria.
June 3-Germans recapture Przem- ysl with Austrian help.
June 18 British suffer defeat north of La Bassee canal.
June 28-Italians enter Austrian territory south of Riva on western shore of Lake Garda.
July 3-Tolmino falls into Italian hands.
July 13 Germans defeated in the Argonne.
July 29-Warsaw evacuated; Lublin captured by Austrians.
Aug. 4 Germans occupy Warsaw.
Aug. 14-Austrians and Germans concentrate 400,000 soldiers on Ser- bian frontier.
Aug. 21-Italy declares war on Tur- key.
Sept. 1-Ambassador Bernstorff an- nounces Germans will sink no more liners without warning.
Sept. 4-German submarine tor- pedoes liner Hesperian.
Sept. 9- Germans make air raid on London, killing twenty persons and wounding 100 others; United States asks Austria to recall Ambassador Dumba.
Sept. 20 Germans begin drive on Serbia to open route to Turkey.
Sept. 22-Russian army retreating from Vilna, escapes German encircling movement.
Sept. 25-30-Battle of Champagne, resulting in great advance for allied armies and causing Kaiser Wilhelm to rush to the west front; German count- er attacks repulsed.
Oct. 5-Russia and Bulgaria sever diplomatic relations; Russian, French, British, Italian, and Serbian diplo- matic representatives ask for pass- ports in Sofia.
Oct. 10-German forces take Bel- grade.
Oct. 12-Edith Cavell executed by Germans.
Oct. 13-Bulgaria declares war on Serbia.
Oct. 15-Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.
Oct. 16 France declares war on Bulgaria.
Oct. 19 Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria.
Oct. 27-Germans join Bulgarians in northeastern Serbia and open way to Constantinople.
Oct. 30-Germans defeated at Mitau. Nov. 9-Italian liner Ancona tor- pedoed.
Dec. 1-British retreat from near Bagdad.
Dec. 4-Ford "peace party" sails for Europe.
Dec. 8-9-Allies defeated in Mace- donia.
Dec. 15-Sir John Douglas Haig succeeds Sir John French as chief of English armies on west front.
1916
Jan. 8 British troops at Kut-el- Amara surrounded.
Jan. 9 British evacuate Gallipoli peninsula.
Jan. 13-Austrians capture Cetinje, capital of Montenegro.
Jan. 23-Scutari, capital of Albania, captured by Austrians.
Feb. 22-German crown prince's army begins attack on Verdun.
March 8-Germany declares war on Portugal.
March 15-Austria-Hungary declares war on Portugal.
March 24-Steamer Sussex torped- oed and sunk.
April 10-President Wilson speaks to congress, explaining diplomatic sit- uation.
April 18-President Wilson sends note to Germany.
April 24-Insurrection in Dublin.
April 29-British troops at Kut-el- Amara surrender to Turks.
April 30-Irish revolution sup-
pressed.
May 3-Irish leaders of insurrection executed.
May 4-Germany makes promise to change methods of submarine warfare.
May 13-Austrians begin great of- fensive against Italians in Trentino.
May 31-Great naval battle off Dan- ish coast. (Battle of Jutland.)
June 5 Lord Kitchener lost with cruiser Hampshire.
June 11-Russians capture Dubno.
June 29-Sir Roger Casement sen- tenced to be hanged for treason.
July 1-British and French begin great offensive on the Somme.
July 6-David Lloyd George appoint- ed secretary of war.
July 9-German merchant submarine Deutschland arrives at Baltimore.
July 23 Gen. Kuropatkin's Russian army wins battle near Riga.
July 27-English take Delville wood; Serbian forces begin attack on Bulgars in Macedonia.
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Aug. 2-French take Fleury.
Aug. 3-Sir Roger Casement exe- cuted for treason.
Aug. 4-French recapture Thiau- mont for fourth time; British repulse Turkish attack on Suez canal.
Aug. 7-Italians on Isonzo front capture Monte Sabotino and Monte San Michele.
Aug. 8 Turks force Russian evacu- ation of Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. 9 Italians cross Isonzo river and occupy Austrian city of Goeritz.
Aug. 10-Austrians evacuate Stanis- lau; allies take Doiran, near Saloniki, from Bulgarians.
Aug. 19 German submarines sink British light cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth.
Aug. 24-French occupy Maurepas, north of the Somme; Russians recap- ture Mush in Armenia.
Aug. 27-Italy declares war on Ger- many; Roumania enters war on side of allies.
Aug. 29-Field Marshal von Hinden- burg made chief of staff of German armies, succeeding Gen. von Falken- bayn.
Aug. 30-Russian armies seize all + five passes in Carpathians into Hun- gary.
Sept. 3-Allies renew offensive north of Somme; Bulgarian and German troops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania.
Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians capture Roumanian fortress of Tutra- kan; Roumanians take Orsova, Bul- garian city.
Sept. 10-German-Bulgarian army capture Roumanian fortress of Silis- tria.
Sept. 14-British for first time use "tanks."
Sept. 15-Italians begin new offen- sive on Carso.
Oct. 2-Roumanian army of invasion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans and Bulgarians under Von Mackensen.
Oct. 4 German submarines sink French cruiser Gallia and Cunard lin- er Franconia.
Oct. 8-German submarines sink six merchant steamships off Nantucket, Mass.
Oct. 11-Greek seacoast forts dis- mantled and turned over to allies on demand of England and France.
Oct. 23-German-Bulgar armies cap- ture Constanza, Rovmania.
Oct. 24-French win back forts near Verdun, in smash of two miles.
Nov. 1-Italians, in new offensive on the Carso plateau, capture 5,000 Aus- trians.
Nov. 2-Germans evacuate Fort Vaux at Verdun.
Nov. 5 Germans and Austrians proclaim new kingdom of Poland, of territory captured from Russia.
Nov. 6 Submarine sinks British passenger steamer Arabia.
Nov. 7-Cardinal Mercier protests against German deportation of Bel- gians; submarine sinks American steamer Columbian.
Nov. 8 Russian army invades Tran- sylvania, Hungary.
Nov. 9-Austro-German armies de- feat Russians in Volhynia and take 4,- 000 prisoners.
Nov. 13-British launch new offen- sive in Somme region on both sides of Ancre.
Nov. 14- British capture fortified village of Beacourt, near the Ancre.
Nov. 19-Serbian, French, and Rus- sian troops recapture Monastir; Ger- mans cross Transylvania Alps and en- ter western Roumania.
Nov. 21-British hospital ship Bri- tannic sunk by mine in Egean sea.
Nov. 23-Roumanian army retreats ninety miles from Bucharest.
Nov. 24-German-Bulgarian armies take Orsova and Turnu-Severin from Roumanians.
Nov. 25-Greek provisional govern- ment declares war on Germany and Bulgaria.
Nov. 28-Roumanian government abandons Bucharest and moves capi- tal to Jassy.
Dec. 5-Premier Herbert Asquith of England resigns.
Dec. 7-David Lloyd George accepts British premiership.
Dec. 8 Gen. von Mackensen cap- tures big Roumanian army in Prohova valley.
Dec. 12-Chancellor von Bethman- Hollweg announces in reichstag that Germany will propose peace; new cabinet in France under Aristide Bri- and as premier, and Gen. Robert Georges Nivelle given chief of com- mand of French army.
Dec. 15-French at Verdun win two miles of front and capture 11,000 men.
Dec. 19-Lloyd George declines Ger- man peace proposals.
Dec. 23-Baron Burian succeeded as minister of foreign affairs in Austria by Count Czernin.
Dec. 26-German proposes to Presi- dent Wilson "an immediate meeting of delegates of the belligerents."
Dec. 27-Russians defeated in five- day battle in eastern Wallachia, Rou- mania.
1917
Jan. 1-Submarine sinks British transport Ivernia.
Jan. 9-Russian premier, Trepoff, re- signs. Golitzin succeeds him.
Jan. 31-Germany announces unre- stricted submarine warfare.
Feb. 3-President Wilson reviews submarine controversy before con- gress; United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany; American steamer Housatonic sunk without warning.
Feb. 7-Senate indorses president's act of breaking off diplomatic rela- tions.
Feb, 12-United States refuses Ger- man request to discuss matters of dif- ference unless Germany withdraws unrestricted submarine warfare order.
Feb. 14-Von Bernstorff sails for Germany.
Feb. 25-British under Gen. Maude capture Kut-el-Amara; submarine sinks liner Laconia without warning; many lost, including two Americans.
Feb. 26-President Wilson asks con- gress for authority to arm American merchantships.
Feb. 28-Secretary Lansing makes public Zimmerman note to Mexico, proposing Mexican-Japanese-German alliance.
March 9-President Wilson calls ex- tra session of congress for April 16.
March 11-British under Gen. Maude capture Bagdad; revolution starts in Petrograd.
March 15-Czar Nicholas of Russia abdicates.
March 17-French and British cap- ture Bapaume.
March 18-New French ministry is formed by Alexander Ribot.
March 21-Russian forces cross Per- sian border into Turkish territory; American oil steamer Healdton torped- oed without warning.
March 22-United States recognizes new government of Russia.
March 27-Gen. Murray's British ex- pedition into the Holy Land defeats Turkish army near Gaza.
April 2-President Wilson asks con- gress to declare that acts or Germany constitute a state of war; submarine
sinks American steamer Aztec without warning.
April 4-United States senate passes resolution declaring a state of war ex- ists with Germany.
April 6-House passes war resolu- tion and President Wilson signs joint resolution of congress.
April 8-Austria declares severance of diplomatic relations with United States.
April 9-British defeat Germans at Vimy Ridge and take 6,000 prisoners; United States seizes fourteen Austrian interned ships.
April 20-Turkey severs diplomatic relations with the U. S.
April 28-Congress passes selective service act for raising of army of 500,- 000; Guatemala severs diplomatic re- lations with Germany.
May 7-War department orders rais- ing of nine volunteer regiments of en- gineers to go to France.
May 14-Espionage act becomes law by passing senate.
May 18-President Wilson signs se- lective service act. Also directs ex- peditionary force of regulars under Gen. Pershing to go to France.
May 19-Congress passes war ap- propriation bill of $3,000,000,000.
June 5-Nearly 10,000,000 men in U. S. register for military training.
June 12-King Constantine of Greece abdicates.
June 13-Gen. Pershing and staff ar- rive in Paris.
June 15-First Liberty loan closes with large oversubscription.
June 26-First contingent American troops under Gen. Sibert arrives in France.
June 29-Greece severs diplomatic relations with Teutonic allies.
July 9- President Wilson drafts state militia into federal service. Also places food and fuel under federal con- trol.
July 13-War department order drafts 678,000 men into military serv- ice.
July 14-Aircraft appropriation bill of $640,000,000 passes house; Chan- cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's resig- nation forced by German political crisis.
July 18-United States government orders censorship of telegrams and cablegrams crossing frontiers.
July 19-New German Chancellor Michaelis declares Germany will not war for conquest; radicals and Catho- lic party ask peace without forced ac- quisitions of territory.
July 22-Siam declares war on Ger- many.
July 23-Premier Kerensky given unlimited powers in Russia.
July 28-United States war indus- tries board created to supervise ex- penditures.
Aug. 25-Italian Second army breaks through Austrian line on Isonzo front.
Aug. 28-President Wilson rejects Pope Benedict's peace plea.
Sept. 10-Gen. Korniloff demands control of Russian government.
Sept. 11-Russian deputies vote to support Kerensky. Korniloff's gener- als ordered arrested.
Sept. 16-Russia proclaims new re- public by order of Premier Kerensky.
Sept. 20-Gen. Haig advances mile through German lines at Ypres.
Sept. 21-Gen. Tasker H. Bliss named chief of staff, U. S. army.
Oct. 16-Germans occupy islands of Runo and Adro in the Gulf of Riga.
Oct. 25-French under Gen. Petain advance and take 12,000 prisoners on Aisne front.
Oct. 27-Formal announcement made that American troops in France had fred their first shots in the war.
Oct. 29-Italian Isonzo front collap- ses and Austro-German army reaches outposts of Udine.
Nov. 1-Secretary Lansing makes public the Luxburg "spurlos versenkt" note.
Nov. 9-Permanent interallied mili- tary commission created.
Nov. 24-Navy department an- nounces capture of first German sub- marine by American destroyer.
Nov. 28-Bolsheviki get absolute control of Russian assembly in Rus- sian elections.
Dec. 6 Submarine sinks the Jacob Jones, first regular warship of Ameri- can navy destroyed.
Dec. 7-Congress declares war on Austria-Hungary.
Dec. 8-Jerusalem surrenders to Gen. Allenby's forces.
1918
Jan. 5-President Wilson delivers speech to congress giving "fourteen points" necessary to peace.
Jan. 20-British monitors win sea- fight with cruisers Goeben and Bres- lau, sinking latter.
Jan. 28-Russia and Roumania sever diplomatic relations.
Feb. 2-United States troops take over their first sector, near Toul.
Feb. 6-United States troopship Tus- cania sunk by submarine, 126 lost.
Feb. 11-President Wilson, in ad- dress to congress, gives four addition- al peace principles, including self-de- termination of nations; Bolsheviki de- clares war with Germany over, but - fuse to sign peace treatq.
Feb. 13-Bolo Pasha sentenced to death in France for treason.
Feb. 25-Germans take Reval, Rus- sian naval base, and Pskov; Chancel- lor von Hertling agrees "in principle" with President Wilson's peace princi- ples, in address to reichstag.
March 1-Over 75,000 American troops in France by this date. Ameri- cans repulse Germans on Toul sector.
March 2-Treaty of peace with Ger- many signed by Bolsheviki at Brest- Litovsk.
March 13-German troops occupy Odessa.
March 14-All Russian congress of soviets ratifies peace treaty.
March 21-On West Front German spring Offensive starts on fifty mile front.
March 22-Germans take 16,000 British prisoners and 200 guns.
March 23-German drive gains nine miles. Long Range "Mystery gun" shells Paris.
March 24-Germans reach the Somme, gaining fifteen miles. Ameri- can engineers rushed to aid British.
March 25-Germans take Bapaume.
March 27-Germans take Albert.
March 28 British counter attack and gain; French take three towns; Germans advance toward Amiens.
March 29-"Mystery gun" kills sev- enty-five churchgoers in Paris on Good Friday.
April 4-Germans start second phase of their spring drive on the Somme.
April 10-Germans take 10,000 Brit- ish prisoners in Flanders.
April 16 Germans capture Messines ridge, near Ypres; Bolo Pasha exe- cuted.
April 23-British and French navies "bottle up" Zeebrugge.
April 26-Germans capture Mount Kemmel, taking 6,500 prisoners.
May 5-Austria starts drive on Italy.
May 10-British navy bottles up Os- tend.
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May 24-British ship Moldavia, car- rying American troops, torpedoed; 56 lost.
May 27-Germans begin third phase of drive on west front; gain five miles. May 28-Germans take 15,000 pris- oners in drive.
May 29-Germans take Soissons and menace Reims. American troops cap- ture Cantigny.
May 30 Germans reach the Marne, fifty-five miles from Paris.
May 31-Germans take 45,000 pris- oners in drive.
June 1-Germans advance nine miles; are forty-six miles from Paris.
June 3-Five German submarines attack U. S. coast and sink eleven ships.
June 5 U. S. marines fight on the Marne near Chateau Thierry.
June 9-Germans start fourth phase of their drive by advancing toward Noyon.
June 10-U. S. Marines capture Belleau Wood.
June 12-French and Americans' start great counter attack.
June 15-Austrians begin another drive on Italy and take 16,000 prison- ers.
June 17-Italians check Austrians on Piave river.
June 19-Austrians cross the Piave. June 22- Italians defeat Austrians on the Piave.
June 23-Austrians begin great re- treat across the Piave.
July 18 Gen. Foch launches allied offensive, with French, American, Brit- ish, Italian and Belgian troops.
July 21-Americans and French cap- ture Chateau Thierry.
July 30-German crown prince withdraws army from the Marne.
Aug. 2-Soissons recaptured by Foch.
Aug. 4 Americans take Fismes.
Aug. 5-American troops landed at Archangel.
Aug. 7-Americans cross the Vesle.
Aug. 16-Bapaume recaptured.
Aug. 28-French recross the Somme. Sept. 1-Foch retakes Peronne.
Sept. 12-Americans launch success- ful attack in St. Mihiel salient.
Sept. 28-Allies win on 250 mile line, from North sea to Verdun.
Sept. 29 Allies cross Hindenburg line.
Sept. 30- Bulgaria surrenders, after successful Allied campaign in Balkans.
Oct. 1-French take St. Quentin.
Oct. 4-Austria asks Holland to me- diate with allies for peace.
Oct. 5 Germans start abandonment of Lille and burn Douai.
Oct. 6-Germany asks President Wil- son for armistice.
Oct. 7-Americans capture defenses in the Argonne.
Oct. 8-President Wilson refuses ar- mistice.
Oct. 9-Allies capture Cambrai.
Oct. 10-Allies capture Le Cateau.
Oct. 11-American transport Otran- to torpedoed and sunk; 500 lost.
Oct. 13-Foch's troops take Laon and La Fere.
Oct. 14-British and Belgians take Roulers; President Wilson demands surrender by Germany.
Oct. 15-British and Belgians cross Lys river, take 12,000 prisoners and 100 guns.
Oct. 16-Allies enter Lille outskirts.
Oct. 17 -- Allies capture Lille, Bruges, Zeebrugge, Ostend and Douai.
Oct. 18 Czecho-Slovaks issue dec- laration of independence and seize Prague.
Oct. 19 President Wilson refuses Austria peace plea and says Czecho- Slovak state must be considered.
Oct. 21-Allies cross the Oise and threaten Valenciennes.
Oct. 22-Haig's forces cross the
Scheldt.
Oct. 23-President Wilson refuses latest German peace plea.
Oct. 27-German government asks President Wilson to state terms.
Oct. 28-Austria begs for separate peace.
Oct. 29-Austria opens direct nego- tiations with Secretary Lansing.
Oct. 30-Italians inflict great defeat on Austria; capture 33,000; Austrians evacuating Italian territory.
Oct. 31-Turkey surrenders; Aus- trians utterly routed by Italians; lose 500,000; Austrian envoys, under white flag, enter Italian lines.
Nov. 1-Allied Conference at Ver- sailles fixes peace terms for Germany. Nov. 3-Austria signs an armistice virtually amounting to unconditional surrender.
Nov. 4-Allied terms are sent to Germany.
Nov. 7-Germany's envoys enter al- lied lines by arrangement.
Nov. 9-Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates and crown prince renounces throne.
Nov. 10- Former Kaiser Wilhelm and his eldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm, flee to Holland to escape widespread revolution throughout Germany.
Nov. 11-Germany signs armistice, ending war.
1919
June 22-German Envoys sign Allied Peace Terms at Versailles.
June 28-German National Assem- bly at Weimar approve Peace Terms, thereby formally ending the World War.
PRONUNCIATION OF NAMES OF TOWNS IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE
Belgium.
Heyst-Hiest
Huy-Wee
Jodoigne Zho-dwan-ye
Jongres-Zhong-r
Knocke-K'noc-keh
La Belle Alliance-Law- Bell-Ah-lee-anz
Laeken-Lah-ken
La Roche-Lah Rosh
Liege Lee-ayzh
Lierre-Laa-air
Ligny-Leen-yee
Limburh-Lam-bour
Lipramont-Leep-rah- mong
Lokeren-Lo-ker-yen
Tirlemont-Teer-leh-mong
Tongres-Tong-r
Tournay-Toor-nay
Verviers-Vair-vee-ay
Vilvorde Veel-vort
Virton-Veer-tong
Vise-Vee-zay
Breteuil-Bre-toy
Marseilles-Mar-say-yeh
St. Omer-San-to-mair St. Pol-Sang-pohl
Eghezee-Egg-a-zay
Mont St. Jean-Mong Sang Zhong
Yser-Ee-say Zeebrugge-Zay-bruggeh
France
Aire-Air
Aisne-Ain
Cherbourg-Sher-boor
Montideer-Mong-tee- dyay
Verdun-Vair-dung
Grammont-Gram-mong
Nievelles-Nee-vel Nonove-No-nov
Ardres-Ahrd-r
Crecy-Kray-see
Montmedy,-Mong-meh- dee
Vosges- Vohzh
Hamme-Hahm
Ottignes-Ot-teen-ye Oudenard-Ood-n-ard
Arieuxe-Ahr-yuh
Armentierres-Ahr-mahn- tee-air
Arras-Arrah
Audruico-O-dree-ko
Bailleul-Ba-yeul
Barleduc-Bar-leh-duke
Beauvais-Bo-vay
Beaufort-Bo-for
Beauvais-Do-vay
Belfort-Bel-for
Bergues-Bairg
Havre-Av-r
Peronne-Pair-run
Bouvigne-Boo-veen-ye
Hazebrouck-Ahz-bruk
Reims-Renh
La Bassee-Lah-Bah-say
Roubaix-Roo-bay
Laon-Lohng
Rouen-Roo-ong
Lens-Lahng
Sedan-Seh-dong
Bruges-Breezh
Bethune-Bay-toon
Liancourt-Lee-ong-coor Lille-Leel
Senlis-Song-lee
Charleroi-Shar-lah-rwah
Longwy-Long-vee
Somme Sum
Chimay-Shih-may
Luneville-Leen-veel
St. Armand-San-Tar- - mong
Cortemarck-Kort-mark Courtrai-Koor-tray Diest-Deest
Marienbourg-Mah-ree- om-boor Middelkkerke Middle- kerk
Waremme-Wah-rem
Wavre-Wahv-r
Mons-Mongs
Ypres-Eep-r
Maubeuge-Mo-berz
St. Quentin-Sang-kong- tang
Enghien-Ahn-yang Furnes-Feern Gembloux-Ghon-bloo Genappe-Zheh-napp Gheel-Gail
Nieuport-New-port
Amiens-Ah-mee-ang
Ardennes-Ahr-den
Compeigne-Kong-pee-enn Conde-Kong-day
Montfaucon-Mong-fo- kong
Vervins-Ver-vang
Haelen-Hah-len
Hal-Hahl
Ostend-Os-tend
Argonne-Ahr-gon
Denain-Deh-neh Dieppe-Dee-epp Douai-Doo-ay
Dunkerque Daihn-keerk Epernay-Ay-pair-nay Epinal-Ay-pee-nal Etain-Ay-tang Etappes-Ay-tapp Fontaine-Fong-ten Fumay-Fee-may Givet-Zhee-vay Gravelines-Grahv-leen
Nanteuil-Nong-toy Neuilly-Noy-yee Nord-Nor Norvelles-No-vel Noyon-Nwah-yong Oise-Wahz
Orleans-Or-lay-ong Oye-Waah
Pas de Calais-Pah-d- Kah-lay
Tamise Tah-meez
Termonde-Tair-mond
Terveuren-Ter-voo-ren
Thielt-Teelt
Thourout-Too-roo
Besancon-Beh-zahng- song
Blamont-Blah-mong
Bordeau-Bor-do
Boulogne-Boo-lone-ye
Bourbourg-Boor-boor
Bourges-Boorzh
Malplaquet-Mahl-plah- kay
St. Die-Sang-Dee-ay
Brest-Brest
Marne-Marn
St. Mihiel-Sang-Meal
Dinant-Dee-nahng Dyle-Deel Dixmude-Dee-meehd
Calais-Kah-lay
Chalons sur Marne-Shah- long-seer-Marn Cambrai-Kong-bray
Meaux-Mo
St. Remy-Sang-Ruh-me
Namur-Nah-muhr
Chambley-Shahm-blay Chantilly-Shang-tee-yee
Meuse-Merz
Valenciennes-Val-long- s-yenn
Neufchateau-Nuf-shah-to
Chaumont-Sho-mong
Mezieres-May-shee-air
Montreuill-Mong-troy
Woevre-Wuh-vr
Hasselt-Hah-selt
Herenthals-Heir-en-tals
Pervyse-Pair-veer
Ramillies-Kah-mee-yay Ramscapelle-Rahms-kek- pel-leh
Renaix-Reh-nay
Roulers-Roo-lay
Sambre-Sahm-br
Seraing-Seh-rang
Soignies-Swahn-yee St. Trond-Sang Trong
Berlaimont-Bair-leh- mong
Berry au Bac-Bair-ree-0- bak
Braine l'Alleud-Brain- luh-leuh Braine le Conte-Brain- luh-Cont
Brussels-Brus-elz
Lombartzeyde-Lom-bart- zide Louvain-Loo-ven
Malines-Mah-leen
Manage-Mah-nahzh
Maubert-Mo-bair
Meurthe et Moselle-Murt- ay-Mo-sel
Toulon-Too-long
Neerwinden-Nair-vin-den
Varenes-Vah-ren
Vitry-Vee-tree
Nancy-Nahn-see
Zaydcoote Zaid-koht
SEE FOLLOWING PAGE FOR THE PEACE CONGRESS TERMS - AND SUMMARY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Aerschot-Air-shot
Alost-Ah-lawst
Andenne-Ahn-den
Antwerp-Ahnt-werp Arlon-Ahr-long Beaumont-Bo-mong Binche-Ban-jhe Blankenberghe-Blan- ken-behr-yeh
Soissons-Swah-song
Lys-Lees
Thuin-Twang
A SUMMARY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The Proposed Signatories of the League-are to be the Associated Powers which drew it up. Other states may later be invited to come in. The Powers, whose members prepared the League are as follows:
(A) The United States, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan described in the League Constitution as the five allied and associated powers, and (B) Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, the Hedjas, Hon- duras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Rumania, Serbia, Siam, Cecho- Slovakia, and Uruguay. Germany may later be admitted.
Membership-The members of the league will be the signatories of the covenant and other states invited to accede, who must lodge a declaration of accession without reservation within two months. A new state, dominion, or colony may be admitted provided its admission is agreed to by two-thirds of the assembly. A state may withdraw upon giving two years' notice, if it has fulfilled all its international obliga- tions.
Secretariat-A permanent secretariat will be established at the seat of the league which will be at Geneva.
Assembly-The assembly will consist of representatives of the members of the league, and will meet at stated intervals. Voting will be by states. Each member will have one vote and not more than three representatives.
Council-The council will consist of representatives of the five great allied powers, together with representatives of four members selected by the assembly from time to time; it may co-operate with additional states and will meet at least once a year. Members not represented will be invited to send a representative when ques- tions affecting their interests are discussed. Voting will be by states. Each state will have one vote and not more than one representative. Decision taken by the assembly and council must be unanimous except in regard to procedure, and in certain cases specified in the covenant and in the treaty, where decisions will be by a majority.
Armaments- The council will formulate plans for a reduction of armaments for consideration and adoption. These plans will be revised every ten years. Once they are with any party to the dispute which complies with it, if a member fails to carry out the award, the council will propose the necessary measures. The council will formulate plans for the establishment of a permanent court of inter- national justice to determine international disputes or to give advisory opinions Members who do not submit their case to arbitration must accept the jurisdiction of the assembly. If the council, less the parties to the dispute, is unanimously agreed upon the rights of it, the members agree that they will not go to war with any party to the dispute which complies with its recommendations. In this case, a recommendation by the assembly adopted, no member must exceed the armaments ixed without the concurrence of the council. Programs will be revised every ten years. Once they are adopted no member must exceed the armaments text without concurrence of the council. All members will exchange full information as to armaments and programs, and a permanent commission will advise the council on military and naval questions.
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