Western Front
Flanders: Intense fighting round Passchendaele. Good air work by Allies behind battle front.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Strong Austro-German onslaughts on whole Italian front. Italians give ground between Brenta and Piave, are driven from Mt. Prassolan, and retreat to Mt. Grappa. They hold on Lower Piave.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy
K1 steam submarine has to be sunk after colliding with
K4 in Grand Fleet sweep.
Adriatic: 2 old Austrian battleships and 14 torpedo boats shell Italian Cortellazzo coast guns near Piave mouth. Italian 15-inch gun monitor
Alfredo Cappellini wrecked off Ancona.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Jaffa taken by NZ Mounted Brigade; Australian Mounted Division takes Latrun. Turkish Eighth Army retires behind river Auja to north.
A patrol of German lancers in Palestine:
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Political, etc
France: M. Charles-Célestin Jonnart succeeds M. Albert Métin as French Minister for Blockade [First Minister: formerly Blockade was under an Under-Secretary.] (see 23rd and August 17th).
Clemenceau appoints Georges Leygues Marine Minister for duration of war.
United Kingdom: Lord Weetman Cowdray resigns Chairmanship of Air Board. Harold Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere, succeeds on November 26.
M. Elftherios Venizelos welcomed at Mansion House.
United States: Enemy alien registration required, 600,000 affected, expelled from Washington and barred from military places (over 200,000 investigated).
Brazil: War law especially against domestic German interests. State of siege in capital and six states, c.700 aliens (mainly German reservists) arrested.
Sweden: Bolshevik Vorovski in Stockholm telegrams Berlin ‘
Please fulfill your promise immediately’ (ie more funds for peace talks).