Eastern Front
Riga: fighting between advanced posts continues.
Southern Front
Austro-Hungarian infantry marching through the snow in the Alps:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...022824458801152
Naval and Overseas Operations
British submarine
G.9 is sunk when the HMS
Pasley mistakes it for a German U-boat and rams it. 30 men are killed:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...113424264785920
Political, etc
Germany: Government asks 15-year-olds to volunteer for Army.
The second ever “summer time” ended last night in Germany, the Netherlands, and in Great Britain, as clocks are moved back.
Russia: Leon Trotsky released from Kresty prison.
France: Churchill meets French Munitions Minister Loucheur in Paris, latter urges Allied Munitions Council.
France will send 140 of its officers to the United States to train the U.S. Army.
United Kingdom: 9d loaf order in operation.
"Summer Time" ends at 2 am.
Coalminers flat wage up 1s 6d per day. Women as workers in a coal mine in England:
https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...emine.jpg?ssl=1
King George V visiting a factory and observing a woman worker using a flame cutter: © IWM (Q 54821):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...083233601622017
King George V launching a ship at the dockyard in Greenock, Scotland: © IWM (Q 54817):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...385212349571072
Argentina: Germany apologizes to Argentina over the Luxburg Affair, where a German diplomat asked U-boats to target neutral Argentine ships.