A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

Marshal Foch, M. Clemenceau, Signor Orlando, and Baron Sonnino visit London and receive a public welcome.

Dec. 6 (Fri.)

British troops enter Cologne.

Dec. 12 (Thur.)

British troops cross the Rhine and occupy the Cologne bridge-head.

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Jan. 18 (Sat.)

The Peace Conference (the 'Conference of Paris') is opened by M. Poincaré, President of the French Republic, at the Quai d'Orsay; M. Clemenceau is unanimously elected Chairman. On the same date, forty-eight years earlier (Jan. 18, 1871), the German Empire was proclaimed in the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles.

Feb. 11 (Wed.)