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24 October 1917

Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres
: German attack in Houthulst Forest repulsed.
Aisne: Battle of La Malmaison (‘Laffaux Corner’, until November 1): French reach banks of Oise-Aisne Canal; claim 11,000 prisoners to date.
Verdun: Germans attack on Chaume Wood repulsed.
Germany: 9 Handley Page bombers (2 lost) of RNAS ‘A’ Squadron and 14 FE.2bs (2 lost) raid industrial and rail targets in Saarbruecken area.
Three German POWs, two of them wounded, captured on the Western Front near Arras: © IWM (Q 6134): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...496680292954118

Eastern Front
Operation Albion
: Russians begin to evacuate Kronstadt.
Russian re-occupy area around Dvina, to 30 miles south-east of Riga.

Southern Front
Isonzo: Twelfth Battle Of Isonzo, aka, the Battle of Caporetto
(until November 9): begins on misty, rainy day with 0200 hours hurricane bombardment of 4 hours (including 2 hours of gas shells that Italian gas masks unable to cope with so guns fall silent). Austro-German assault (10 divisions) at 0800 hours on 20-mile front penetrates along valleys up to 14 miles isolating, panicking and destroying 3 Italian divisions (18,000 PoWs and 100 guns) (another source claims only 10,000 PoWs) east of Upper Isonzo, although flanking armies’ attacks fail. German 12th (Silesian) Division takes Caporetto at 1530 hours. Cadorna belatedly calls up 9 reserve divisions and orders Tagliamento defences. Austrian Jewish-born lyric poet Lieutenant Franz Janowitz (2nd Tyrol Sharpshooter Regiment) mortally wounded by MG in assault on Mt Rombon, dies on November 4, aged 25.
German mortar at the Isonzo. For the offensive, Austrians and Germans organized the strongest artillery concentration in the Alpine area so far: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...sonzo.jpg?ssl=1
Caproni bombers make 18 raids on Austro-German troops (until c. November 14) but forced to move bases behind Piave.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: Operation Albion
: Royal Navy submarine C.32, trapped in Gulf of Riga, beaches in Vaist Bay west of Pernau. Russian submarine Gepard probably mined on October 28, but trapped British C.26 (Downie) reaches Hangoe (Finland) at third attempt on December 13.
North Sea: Harwich Force flagship cruiser Centaur badly damaged by own depth charges washed overboard after vain night sortie to catch German destroyers.

Political, etc
United Kingdom
: Premier Lloyd George claims the Germans are trying to arm Sinn Fein and aid another uprising in Ireland.
Brazil: Troops seizes 43 interned German merchant ships.
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