Hm, that was an odd entry: it double-posted from the site I posted. Wonder if they fixed the "double" by eliminating that particular one. I'll see if I can track it down. In the meantime:
Western Front
Lieut.-General Sir L.E. Kiggell, Chief of the General Staff, British Expeditionary Force, France, resigns (see 24th, and December 22nd, 1915).
Treves bombed by British, Conflans and Metz district by French.
Naval aircraft bomb Aertrycke and Engel.
Royal Flying Corps Second Lieutenants Scholtz and Wookey (PoWs on October 17, 1917 near Cambrai when shot down in Bristol Fighters) sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for dropping anti-war leaflets behind German lines on Western Front.
A trench message dog waits for a British officer to complete writing a note: © IWM (Q 6476):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...976335624294400
Southern Front
Trentino: (Asiago) Sassari Brigade and 4 Alpini battalions surprise attack and recapture Cols del Rosso and d’Echele with Mt Carone (until January 29) provoking 4-division counter-attacks that yield 2,500 PoWs, 6 guns and 100 MGs for 5,240 casualties.
Naval and Overseas Operations
The
Yavuz Sultan Selim refloated inside the Dardanelles (see 20th).
Cunard liner S.S.
Andania torpedoed off Ulster coast by
U-46. The passengers are saved, but 7 crew are killed.
Argentine S.S.
Ministro Iriondo torpedoed by Germans.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Turkish Dead Sea Flotilla seized by Arab camelry at El Mezraa.
Mesopotamia: General Dunsterville's Mission leaves Baghdad for North-West Persia (see February 17th).
British soldiers of the mission of General Dunsterville on the march through northern Mesopotamia towards the Russian oil fields of Baku in the Caucasus:
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Political, etc
Russia: Bolshevik Government breaks off diplomatic negotiations with Romania, latter’s legation leaves Petrograd on January 28.
Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, the grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, died of pneumonia:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...915937948598273
France: French Food Minister Victor Boret says France will stop importing coffee to free up ships for the transportion of troops and other materials.
United States: U.S. government bans the production of white bread. Instead “Victory Bread,” containing 5-20% of other cereals, must be produced.
Finland: Fighting breaks out in Kämärä, Finland between the Communist Reds and the Whites, resulting in a Red victory. The Finnish Civil War begins.