Western Front
Northern France: British make successful raid at Loos and disperse four German raids south of Lens and east of Monchy.
Meuse: French repel flame attack on Chaume Wood.
The 1st Battalion of the Russian Legion in France, made up of members of the former Russian Expeditionary Force, head to the trenches of the Western Front.
British soldiers walking through the waterlogged fields near Ypres: © IWM (Q 8429):
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Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: (Listed for yesterday): Soviet Russia agrees to extend its armistice with the Central Powers for another month to negotiate a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk.
(For today): Russo-German Peace Conference adjourns.
Southern Front
(Listed for yesterday): On the Italian front, German troops are forced to retreat from the area between the Piave and Brenta rivers due to heavy Italian artillery fire.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Pacific: First of three Japanese warships arrives at Vladivostok (Royal Navy cruiser Suffolk from Hong Kong on January 14) to ‘protect’ 600,000t of Allied supplies.
Couple of different sources claim that today, not 9 January is the date of the wrecking of British destroyers HMS
Narborough and HMS
Opal.
Mozambique: British column disembarks at Port Amelia, in what was then Portuguese East Africa.
Political, etc
Russia: Romanian Minister in Petrograd arrested by Bolsheviks.
Latvia: Latvia declares independence (see November 11th).
France: French War Department takes over all postal and telegraph services in the country.
United Kingdom: Officers pay put up to 10s 6d pd plus child allowances. Workers loot closed food shops in Leytonstone and Wembley.
An explosion occurs in the coal mine of Minnie Pit at Halmer End, England, resulting in 155 deaths:
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United States: (Listed for yesterday): US factories making corsets and covers for automobiles and carriages are ordered by the government to manufacture powder bags. This is the first time in the US during the war where factories are ordered to change production for war goods.
Employment Service organizes women’s division.
US Army institutes DSC (Distinguished Service Cross) and DSM (Distinguished Service Medal) decorations.
Read more at
https://ww2-weapons.com/diary-janua...yf7ZcHL2vTzR.99 Medal of honor for the mothers of American soldiers:
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