June 18, 1917

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1917, Arthur Hoffmann, Bonar Law, Champagne, England, Foreign Minister, France, Germany, Great Britain, Grimm-Hoffmann Affair, Jan Christiaan Smuts, peace, Petrograd, Robert Grimm, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, Switzerland

Fighting at Infantry Hill; Germans capture certain advance posts. French capture a German salient in Champagne between Mont Cornillet and Mont Blond. Mr. Bonar Law announces General Smuts to attend the War Cabinet while in England. Herr Hoffmann, Swiss Foreign Minister, who had forwarded German peace terms to Herr Grimm in Petrograd, resigns.

June 16, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Alexander Kerensky, Bullecourt, casualties, civilian casualties, disease, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, peace, Petrograd, Royal Flying Corps, Russia, Russian Revolution, Zeppelin

Further fighting around Bullecourt. British withdrawal on left bank of the Struma owing to advent of the malarial season. Duma resolution against a separate peace or prolonged inactivity at the front; All-Russian Congress of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates meets in Petrograd; M. Kerensky defends his policy amidst applause. Zeppelin attack in East Anglia; it is brought down in flames by an R.F.C. pilot, three members of the crew surviving; a second airship raids the Kent coast; three killed and injured.

June 9, 1917

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1917, Germany, peace, Russia

Russian Government refuses unlimited armistice proposed by German Commander on the Eastern front.

June 1, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, Alexandre Ribot, Belgium, Bruges, France, French Prime Minister, Germany, Great Britain, Laffaux, occupation, Ostend, peace, prisoners of war, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, Second Battle of the Aisne, Stockholm, Sweden, Zeebrugge

Slight German gains on French front near Laffaux. British naval aeroplanes drop tons of explosives on German bases at Zeebrugge, Ostend, and Bruges; 3,412 German prisoners announced taken by British in May, including 68 officers. M. Ribot announces French Government’s refusal to grant passports to French Socialists to go to Stockholm.

May 28, 1917

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1917, Alexandre Ribot, Allies, Austria-Hungary, England, Ferdinand Foch, France, French Prime Minister, Great Britain, Hermada, Hudi Log, Italy, Jules Cambon, London, Medeazza, Minister of War, Paul Painleve, peace, Slovenia, Stockholm, Sweden, Tenth Battle of the Isonzo, trenches, Vodice

MM. Ribot, Cambon, Painlevé, and General Foch in conference with War Cabinet in London. French Socialists decide to attend Stockholm Conference. Italians win trenches near Medeazza, opposite Hermada; Austrian attacks east of Hudi Log and at Vodice repulsed.

May 19, 1917

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1917, American President, Austria-Hungary, France, General Pershing, Germany, Italy, peace, prisoners of war, Russia, Russian Revolution, Slovenia, Tenth Battle of the Isonzo, United States Army, United States of America, Vodice, Woodrow Wilson

Fierce fighting on Monte Vodice; Austrian prisoners to date over 7,000. New Russian Government issues declaration repudiating a separate peace. President Wilson decides to send an American division to France under General Pershing.

May 15, 1917

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1917, Adriatic, Aleksei Brusilov, Allies, Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Navy, Battle of Arras, Battle of Bullecourt, Battle of the Strait of Otranto, Bodrez, Bullecourt, casualties, Cattaro, Ferdinand Foch, fortress, French Navy, Germany, Gorizia, HMS Bristol, HMS Dartmouth, Italian Navy, Italy, Loga, Monte Santo, peace, Philippe Petain, prisoners of war, Robert Nivelle, Roeux, Royal Navy, Russia, sinking, Slovenia, Tenth Battle of the Isonzo, Vasily Gurko

Italian offensive continues; most marked progress between Loga and Bodrez, in the Plava area, on the slopes of Monte Santo, and on the heights east of Gorizia; 3,375 prisoners. Austrian light cruisers and destroyers sink 14 British drifters in the Adriatic; they are driven off by H.M. ships Dartmouth and Bristol and French and Italian destroyers; Italian airmen reduce on cruiser to a sinking condition outside Cattaro. Slight German success west of Bullecourt. Stubborn fighting around Roeux; great German losses. Enemy gain a footing on French front east of Fort Malmaison. Changes in French higher command; General Pétain succeeds General Nivelle, who takes command of an army group; General Foch succeeds General Pétain as Chief of Staff. Generals Brusiloff and Gurko ask to resign; members of Committee of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates agree to join Russian Provisional Government, and declare a separate peace impossible.

May 9, 1917

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1917, Battle of Doiran, Bulgaria, Doiran, Great Britain, Greece, peace, Republic of Macedonia, Russia, Salonika, Serbia, Thessaloniki, Vardar

British attack north of Salonika between the Vardar and Lake Doiran; advance of 500 yards on a two-mile front; Serbians and Russians engaged in the Monastir section. Russian Committee of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates pass resolution in favour of international Socialist peace conference.

April 15, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Battle of Arras, Cambrai, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Lagnicourt, Ottoman Empire, peace, Queant, Russia, St Quentin, trenches, Turkey, Villeret

German counter-attack astride the Bapaume-Cambrai road before Quéant fails, except at Lagnicourt, where they gain a brief entry into the British trenches. Villeret, north-west of St. Quentin, taken. Turks, retreating before General Maude, reach Jebel Hamrin, whence they started on April 9. Austrian peace move; a statement amounting to an offer of a separate peace with Russia on the basis of old frontiers, made.

January 22, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, American President, bombardment, Bulgaria, casualties, Danube, France, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Simoom, IJmuiden, Imperial German Navy, Latvia, Netherlands, North Sea, peace, Riga, Romania, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, Russia, Saar, Saarbrucken, sinking, Tulcea, Tulvea, United States of America, V69, Verdun, Woodrow Wilson, Ymuiden

Two actions in the North Sea off the Dutch coast: division of German destroyers encountered by British light forces; one enemy destroyer sunk, the others scattered; subsequent destroyer action off Schouwen Bank; British destroyer torpedoed and eventually sunk by British ships; 47 lives lost; German destroyer V 69 puts into Ymuiden badly battered, with many killed and wounded, including the division commander, Corvette-Captain Schültz, killed. German attacks on Riga front driven off. Bulgarians cross an arm of the Danube opposite Tultcha. Unsuccessful German attack at Verdun driven off. Sixteen British naval aeroplanes bombard blast furnaces of Burbach, in the Sarre basin. President Wilson’s speech in the United States Senate on peace; disapproval of a peace based on victory of either belligerent alliance.