Western Front
Battle of the Menin Road Ridge phase of the
Third Battle of Ypres ends (see. 20th). Germans penetrate between Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wood, but later retire.
Shelled village near Ypres. In the autumn of 1914 here was fiercely fought, and in 1917 Flanders was a battlefield again:
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RFC makes the utterly fantastical claim of 19 German aircraft for loss of 1 missing.
South-east London raided by German aeroplanes; 9 killed, 23 injured.
15 Gotha bombers (1 lost) dispatched, 4 reach London.
Zeppelins attack Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts, 3 injured. A bomb dropped from the Zeppelin attack on Kingston-upon-Hull, England last night: © IWM (Q 61164):
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Belgium: Royal Navy Air Service and Royal Flying Corps attack St Denis Westrem and Gontrode Gotha bases (until October 10) forcing bombers to disperse and use two other airfields.
Southern Front
Adriatic: Italians bomb Pola and Olivi Rock submarine base.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Ostend bombarded again.
Brigadier-General Northey's summary of his operations in East Africa published.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Russian detachments attack Turks successfully near Ortobo (Bitlis).
Mesopotamia: Royal Flying Corps No 63 squadron loses 2 RE8s on first reconnaissance mission from Baghdad to German aircraft near Tikrit.
Political, etc
Germany: New Fatherland's Party meeting and declaration of von Tirpitz's policy.
Russia: Vladimir Lenin writes to Central committee (letter arriving September 27) that armed uprising necessary.
France: Anglo-French Conference assembles in Boulogne to discuss an Italian offensive and the extension of the British front in France (see 4th). British agree in principle to extending BEF front.
United Kingdom: British postal worker holds 3 packages that tried to smuggle food into Germany by wrapping them in newspaper: © IWM (Q 54114):
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Ireland: Death of Easter Rising rebel T Ashe (rearrested August 14) after forcible feeding in prison.
United States: U.S.A. declares itself not one of the "Allies".