Western Front
British take Fresnoy (north of Arras).
French press enemy back along Suippe front.
Italian advance north of Ostel (nine miles south of Laon); Laon on fire.
Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Battle of Champagne and Argonne (see October 15th): Stiff American fighting on Meuse-Argonne sector continues.
Western Front, Air: US airmen Erwin R Bleckley and Harold Goettler posthumously awarded CMH (US Medal of Honor, awarded in the name of Congress) for suicidal supply-dropping mission to ‘Lost Battalion’ at Binarville on October 2.
A British soldier picks up a fallen headstone at a destroyed cemetery in Gavrelle: © IWM (Q 9568):
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Eastern Front
British officials from Petrograd reach Swedish frontier.
Bolsheviks repulsed by Allied troops at Seletskaya (170 miles south of Archangel).
Southern Russia: Trotsky recalls Stalin from Tsaritsyn to Moscow (until October 11), returns till October 19.
Southern Front
Serbia: 65,000 Bulgars have surrendered altogether.
Alexander Karađorđević, Prince Regent of Serbia, and later Alexander I of Yugoslavia, accepts promotion to General.
Albania: Italians pushing on in Albania, north of Berat, towards Elbasan.
Bulgarian soldiers captured in Macedonia. Bulgaria signed an armistice with the Allies late last month:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Reported 79,000 prisoners taken since 18 September 1918.
Syria: Sidon occupied by British forces. Zahleh and Rayak (north-west of Damascus) occupied by British cavalry.
Palestine: French and British warships find Beirut evacuated.
Two of the last wounded Allied soldiers are evacuated on horse-carts in Syria or Palestine:
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British troops in Sidon (Lebanon) after its capture from the Ottomans: © IWM (Q 12479):
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Political, etc
France: France warns Germany re: crimes on French territory.
United Kingdom: Prince Max's letter of 12 January 1918 revealed.
India: Record of 768 flu deaths in Bombay today.
Bulgaria: Peaceful manifesto by King Boris.
China: Canton Government declares war on President Hsuh Shih Chang.