Western Front
France: Germans radio Foch with names of armistice envoys, (leave Spa at noon) he stipulates they must come to Forest of Compiegne. Marshall Foch informs German armistice delegates they may advance to French outposts by Chimay-Fourmies-La Capelle-Guise road. Haig orders that on November 8th ‘
The Fourth, Third and First Armies should continue their present operations … reaching the line Avesnes-Maubeuge-Mons (Avesnes road): advanced guards and mounted troops should then be pushed forward beyond … to keep touch with the enemy … the Fifth and Second Armies… with the Flanders Group of Armies should on the 11th November … force a passage of the Scheldt and then drive the enemy back over the river Dendre.’
Record of 190,564 US soldiers in 23 hospitals and 21 hospital trains. French Army has 185 hospital trains (8 in 1914).
Sambre: British advance 5 miles through Avesnes and Bavai to Haumont, 3 miles west of Maubeuge and Elouges (9.5 miles south-west of Mons).
Scheldt: German artillery ‘hate shoot’ on Oudenarde, heavy civilian casualties. At 1915 hours Petain cables ‘
... Reserve Army Group is to support the British right wing, making its principal effort by the Chimay gap [before Givet on Meuse]; Centre Army Group is to secure Mezieres, Charleville and Sedan and establish bridgehead on the Meuse’.
Meuse and Argonne: US 29th Division and French 10th Colonial Div meet on Borne de Cornoiuller (15,000 US casualties since Septembet 26) above Meuse after fighting since November 3. US Third Army formed. French and Americans threaten Charleville-Mezieres.
Australian troops are advancing on the Western front:
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A “baby dispatch car” designed for use by the US Army:
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Southern Front
Serbia: Franchet d’Esperey and Serb Crown Prince enter Belgrade under triumphal arches and meet Karolyi’s Hungarian delegation which left Budapest on November 5, hand them the armistice terms.
Austria: Austrians inform Italians that elements of II Bavarian Corps approaching Brenner Pass.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Allenby makes Anglo-French declaration of Eastern Peoples’ “liberation” from Turkish oppression.
Syria: Yilderim and Seventh Army HQs closed, Kemal recalled to Constantinople, Nihad Pasha in command of Second Army takes over.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Harwich Force sorties (until November 8) but cannot prevent some German steamers interning themselves in Holland by sailing in Dutch territorial waters. First Sea Lord Admiral Sir R Wemyss made British Naval Representative for Armistice talks. Beatty writes ‘
The Fleet, my Fleet, is brokenhearted [at being denied battle], but are still wonderful, the most wonderful thing in creation.’
Political, etc
Germany: Bavaria proclaimed a Republic by Prussian Jew Kurt Eisner at Munich as King Ludwig III flees into Austria (formally deposed November 8, ‘abdicates’ November 16), becoming the first monarch in the German Empire to be deposed:
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Majority Socialists demand Kaiser and Prime Minister’s abdication by noon November 8, resign from Reichstag and call General Strike for November 8. Demobilization Office set up. General Linsingen in command of Brandenburg forbids Soviets.
The German revolution spreads to nearly all coastal cities, as well as Munich, Hanover, Brunswick, and Frankfurt. Sailors seize Cologne despite 45,000-strong garrison. Kiel and Hamburg in hands of "Soviets" (i.e., Workers’ and Sailors’ councils).
Alsace: Pro-French demo at Strasbourg.
Russia: Statue of Marx and Engels is unveiled by Lenin in Moscow for the first anniversary of the Russian Revolution:
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United Kingdom: Labour Ministry forms Civil Demobilization and Resettlement Department. Churchill announces munitions ‘
carry on at reduced speed’ (not less than halftime on November 9, in force November 11). Health Ministry Bill introduced into Commons.
United States: False armistice celebrated in New York due to erroneous UP dispatch. Similar false news is spread in other Allied countries:
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Emerging States: Yugoslav conference at Geneva decide to form a joint Yugoslav-Serbian Government to control military and foreign affairs (see 23rd, and October 29th).