Today includes a note that might interest PF (see Political, etc, for France)
Western Front
Artillery very active on both sides; German raids north-west of St. Quentin.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians driven from fortified positions on Mt. Tomba, but offer strong resistance. 1100 Italians are taken prisoner. Alfred Krauss’ Austrian troops and German Jaeger Division attack Mt Grappa sector until November 22 between rivers Brenta and Piave, take 1,286 PoWs.
Austro-Hungarians attack in southern Albania and attempt to cross River Voyusa, 12 miles north of Valona, attack Italians on November 22 and force river Osum on night November 25-26.
An Italian 30.5 cm gun with a unique (and comparatively primitive) gun carriage captured by the Austro-Hungarians:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: British Q-ship sloop
Candytuft sunk in Mediterranean by SM
U-39, 9 killed.
Baltic:
UC-57 strikes a mine in the Gulf of Finland and sinks.
North Sea: British
P57 rams and sinks
UC-47 with all hands (sank 52 ships worth 65,884t in 1917) off Flamborough Head.
East Africa: A force of 262 Germans and 700 Askaris surrdeners to British, 18 miles south-east of Chivata.
The German crew of
U-58 surrendering, in yesterday’s action:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia, dies at Baghdad of cholera (see August 28th, 1916): succeeded by Lieut.-General Sir William Raine Marshall.
Burial of General Sir Frederick Maude at Baghdad:
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Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude:
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Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): Allenby resumes operations against Jerusalem with 14,500 men and 18 guns vs c.5,900 Turks with 50 guns. British enter Judean Hills as winter rains begin on November 19. Falkenhayn moves headquarter from Jerusalem to Nablus.
Political, etc
Russia: Petrograd completely held by Bolsheviks. Rumours current that Russia will shortly withdraw from war.
France: Auguste Rodin, French sculptor known for works such as “The Thinker,” passed away:
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United Kingdom: John Jellicoe memo to War Cabinet ‘…
our naval policy is necessarily governed by the adequacy of our destroyer forces’.