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Old 02-12-2018, 10:06 AM
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11 February 1918

Western Front
Metz raided by French airmen.
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps members at Dieppe, France baking bread for the British Army: © IWM (Q 8476): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...412133697847297
U.S. soldiers waiting to get hot drinks on a cold day at a canteen in a base in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...714122788929538
Men of the Chinese Labour Corps in France celebrating Chinese New Year: © IWM (Q 8484): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...774520288260096

Southern Front
Fighting in Asiago region to advantage of Italians.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Adriatic
: British Adriatic Force reorganized. Franco-Italian net barraged completed between Fano Island and Corfu.
Atlantic: French submarine Diane suffers an internal explosion in the Bay of Biscay and sinks with all 43 of its crew.
Mozambique: (11-18 February): Main German force dislodged from Lujenda Valley, moves southwards from Mtarika area towards Upper Rio (frontier of Mozambique).

Political, etc
Germany
: Berlin papers prematurely hail peace with Russia.
Skeptical German view of Wilson as ‘peace maker’: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...maker.jpg?ssl=1
Russia: Soviet Red Fleet founded on volunteer basis, 5 commissars (SOVNARKOM) to run Baltic Fleet on February 12.
General Alexey Kaledin, an early leader of the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia, commits suicide after losing hope that the Bolsheviks could be defeated: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...683914321047552
Belgium: Great Brussels demo against separate Flanders.
United States: President Wilson delivers Message to Congress restating War Aims and laying down four additional Points.
Lord Reading arrives in U.S. as Ambassador.
Poland: Polish Cabinet resigns as protest against Ukraine treaty.
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