Western Front
Cambrai: Strong German local attack near Bullecourt repulsed.
Woevre: French make successful raid on large scale near Seicheprey. Legion (141 casualties) brings back 188 PoWs, 16 MGs and 9 mortars.
Sir Douglas Haig's fourth dispatch published. This covers the Battles of Arras, ‘Lens’, Messines and Third Ypres in previous summer, makes the utterly fantastical claim of 131 German divisions defeated.
Philippe Pétain writes to Georges Clemenceau ‘In reality, the 1918 battle will be defensive…‘. He and Haig present strategy together on January 24 and 30, only choice until US arrives in strength.
British soldiers marching through the snow-covered ruins of Ypres: © IWM (Q 8413):
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Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Talaat Pasha arrives to join talks.
German officers meeting with Soviet delegates at Brest-Litovsk to negotiate a peace treaty. The delegates, from right to left, are Leon Trotsky, Lev Karakhan, and Adolph Joffe. © IWM (Q 70777):
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Persia: Qasr-i-Shirin occupied by British forces (see July 8th, 1917).
Political, etc
Russia: Russian Bolshevik Government withdraw demand for transfer to Stockholm and resume negotiations at Brest-Litovsk (see 5th and 22nd).
Australia: Mr. Billy Hughes and Nationalist Cabinet resign.
United States: President Wilson delivers Message to Congress laying down the "Fourteen Points" (see February 11th). Office of Public Information distributes all over Europe. French Parliament adopts it on January 11. The Fourteen Points are to be found herer:
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1324.html
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) attempted to invite the European nations into the League of Nations, but was no supported by the Congress, and was subsequently defeated in the 1920 elections:
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Mississippi becomes the first state to ratify the 18th amendment, which establishes prohibition of alcohol in the U.S.