Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Further advance on German positions west of Cambrai; British attack Bourlon Wood. British 40th Division attack, with 62 tanks (16 lost, 5 to German anti-aircraft guns) and 432 guns vs 200 German guns, reaches crest but fails to reach village.
German truck (lorry) -mounted flak guns stiffen defence of Fontaine. 50 Royal Flying Corps aircraft (15 wrecked) support BEF ground attack, but Richthofen now in command of sector and shoots down DH5 in Bourion Wood. 3 RFC day bomber squadrons attack six targets.
British Mark IV tank passing by captured German artillery guns at the Battle of Cambrai: © IWM (Q 6336): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...662699208273920
Ypres: British attack in the night and advance on line south-east of Ypres.
Julian Byng promoted to General.
British troops cheering King Albert I of Belgium goodbye after his visit to the frontlines: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...389666757332993

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: German airship L-59 reaches East Africa, but turns back west of Khartoum during 95-hour-non-stop flight due to British message in German cipher from Newala radio station. Returns to base after record 4,200-mile flight.
L-59 was in August 1917 the first one of a new class of Zeppelins which represented the latest design techniques and established a pattern that was to persist for almost a year: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...f-L59.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Russia: Lenin Government issues decree for demobilization of Russian army, starting with those who reached the age of conscription in 1899.
Trotsky begins publishing Allied secret treaties in Izvestia.
All class distinctions and civil ranks abolished.
France: M. Albert Lebrun succeeds M. Charles Jonnart as French Minister for Blockade (see 16th).
United Kingdom: Lord Robert Cecil on Bolsheviks.
Ship-building Council appointed. Church bells ring for ‘Cambrai victory’.
United States: German residents in the U.S. are barred from entering tall buildings in New York that gives them view of the New York Harbor or the rivers.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Heavy back-and-forth fighting continues at the Battle of Cambrai, where villages near Bourlon Wood change hands several times between the British and Germans: Moeuvres, Queant, Bullecourt, and Banteux. British fail to storm Bourlon Hill, but Colonel Wade with party hold part of village until November 26. British recover Fontaine-Notre-Dame; renewed attacks on November 25-27 are fruitless. Haig letter laments severe shortage of infantrymen.
Successful French minor attack on Verdun front.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Austrian assaults fail on Asiago Plateau; also attempts to cross Lower Piave. Emperor Charles ends attacks in Asiago sector, Conrad’s losses 15,030 (nearly 7,000 sick) since November 10.
General Sir Herbert Plumer assumes formal command of British forces in Italy.
Emperors Charles (far left) and Wilhelm II, hoping to knock Italy out of the war: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...alien.jpg?ssl=1

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil: Battle of Nebi Samwil (Palestine) ends (see 17th.). Anzac Mounted Division gains but loses 2 bridgeheads north of river Auja until November 25. Turkish losses are 437 soldiers.
Lt.-Gen. Sir W. R. Marshall succeeds Sir S. Maude in Mesopotamia (see 18 November).

Political, etc
Russia: Bolsheviks bury those who died in the taking of Moscow in the Kremlin walls: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...738226229145600
The Bolsheviks release the details to the public of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which splits Ottoman lands between the French and British: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...753317813030912
France: French newsreel showing French soldiers in northern Italy to reinforce the line against Austria-Hungary: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/45429 (sucks that these keep coming up for me as “content unavailable”, but YMMV).
Turkey: Ain ed Douleh succeeds Ala es Sultaneh as Persian Prime Minister (see June 6th, 1917 and January 19th, 1918).

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: String German counter-attacks at Bourlon; yhey regain parts of the village. British 40th Division loss now 4,000 men since November 23, only 12 tanks in action.
Verdun: French attack in Samogneux district, north of Verdun; they take 800 prisoners.

Eastern Front
In Russian centre (near Baranovichi) the troops continue to fraternise with the enemy.
At Orsha railway junction anti-Bolshevik troops going for Moscow are stopped.
After the ceasefire offer of the Russian revolutionary government, lively exchange trade begins between the trenches: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1917.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Heavy mountain fighting between the Brenta and Piave; more attacks repulsed by Italians.
German airship L-59 returns to Yambol from flight to East Africa.
Fresh Austrian attacks in Albania; on night of 25th-26th they force passage of River Osum.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: German operations in Portuguese East Africa, begin (see December 1st, 1917 and September 29th, 1918). German force under Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck effects passage of the Rovuma and defeats Portuguese force at Ngomano. Crossing is 1 mile from Portuguese fort with 2,000 troops; 3,000 porters and 1 gun in action until November 26. His attack takes the fort, 700 Portuguese, 6 MGs, 30 horses with 6 days’ rations.
At the Battle of Ngomano in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), German forces under von Lettow-Vorbeck defeat the Portuguese: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...479323561590784

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mounted troops capture Ain Karim, four miles west of Jerusalem.
British patrols, after crossing Auja river forced back by hostile infantry.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: 100,000 workers march in Budapest for peace and Russian Revolution.
Russia: Constituent Assembly elections (until November 27): Bolsheviks win only 25% of vote, ie 9.8 million of 36 million with 225 delegates to 420 Socialists (20.75 million votes). An oft-repeated claims that these are the last free elections till 1989. Much more important is this interpretation: Russian Constituent Assembly election, the first free election in Russian history, is held, with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party winning 40% of the votes. Bolsheviks win 24%.
United States: A church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is targeted with a bomb by anarchists. While the bomb was being inspected at the police department, it explodes, resulting in 11 deaths.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: 12 DH4 bombers of No 49 Squadron fly first Western Front raid on railhead east of Cambrai, but other units switched to routine strategic targets until November 29.
Heavy shelling about Ypres.
British carrier pigeons returning from the frontlines with messages: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...752359464529920

Eastern Front
Russian Armies at the front experience desertions due to the lack of food, as the revolution cause disruptions in the supply lines.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Sharp Austro-Hungarian attack repulsed in Brenta valley, two miles east of San Marino. Austrian Edelweiss Division (only 2,000 strong by November 27) fails to capture Col della Berretta against 2 Italian brigades, Alpini Val Brenta battalion and 60th Bersaglieri. Mt Pertica changes hands seven times and is left fire-swept with both sides below summit.
Austrians secretly withdraw Zenson bridgehead until December 2.
PoWs collection point for Italians at Tolmein: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...al-KG.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Germany: Navy extends U-boat barred zone to 720 miles from Irish coast and area around Azores and Cape Verde Islands (effective from January 11, 1918). In Mediterranean 20-mile wide neutral corridor to Greece closed.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Lord Rothermere appointed President of the Air Council.
Increase of pay to both Navy and Army announced.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Severe village fighting at Fontaine, Notre Dame, and Bourlon; British line advanced at first, and 500 prisoners taken; German “attack” west of Moeuvres repulsed. Exhausted British disengage at Cambrai after Guards Division (with 32 tanks) driven back in Bourlon and Fontaine sectors. Ludendorff and Rupprecht confer at Le Cateau as 20 fresh German divisions mass under Marwitz near Cambrai: ‘There never has been such an opportunity for a smashing counterstrike’, says Ludendorff who insists all must be ready before November 30 as Cambrai is a vital rail center.
At Cambrai, a British tank by artillery and destroyed: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-tank.jpg?ssl=1
Members of Supreme War Council appointed - General Sir H. H. Wilson, General F. Foch, General Cadorna and General Bliss (see 7th).
Canadian soldier at the Western Front washing his hair with shampoo in a ditch: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...176768499134464

Eastern Front
First meeting of Russian and German delegates behind German lines to arrange for armistice (see 21st and 30th).

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Unconditional surrender near Nevala (East Africa) of Mahenge force, under Colonel Tafel, consisting of over 3,500 German and native troops (according to another source, only 215 Germans and 1,100 followers).
Baltic: Russian destroyer Bditelni mined and sunk off Aaland Islands by UC-78 minefield.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: 15,800 Turks with c.120 guns gain ground from Yeomanry and 54th Divisions until reserves stabilize line on November 30.

Political, etc
Russia: Armistice delegates return with German consent in principle. Next meeting December 1, 1917.
Trotsky warns Russia may be driven to separate armistice if Allies do not negotiate. George Buchanan to British Foreign Office ‘Every day that we keep Russia in the war against her will does but embitter her people against us.’
France: British Premier Lloyd George and Greek Premier Eleftherios Venizelos arrive in Paris for a inter-Allied War Council.
United Kingdom: War Office sanctions doubled Tank Corps establishment of 18,462 (originally requested April 13, 1917).
Brazil: Brazil concludes agreement with France for the use of 30 interned German ships, to carry food for the Allies.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Germans shell Bourlon Wood and Ypres front. 16,000 German gas and high-explosive shells rain down on Bourlon Wood.
France: AEF US First Army Staff College opens at Langres with three-month course.

Eastern Front
Russia suffers heavily from the war. As a result of famine, there were even cases of cannibalism: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ismus.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italian batteries shell Austro-Hungarian boats on Lower Piave.
Albania: Austro-Hungarians assault Italian positions nine miles north-east from Avlona.
A German or Austro-Hungarian soldier taking a picture of the ruined town of Asiago, Italy after its capture: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...237081336569857

Naval and Overseas Operations
British Home Waters: U-boat sinks British Elder-Dempster liner Apapa (77 lives lost).
Adriatic: Austrian destroyers and torpedo boats shell coast railway near Senigallia.
Britain: WRNS founded (Women’s Royal Naval Service).
East Africa: GERMAN EAST AFRICA ALL IN BRITISH HANDS. K George V’s telegram congratulates Jacob Deventer on November 30.

Political, etc
Russia: Estonia declares itself independent.
Bashkirs in Russia proclaim the creation of Bashkurdistan, the first autonomous ethnic region in Russia.
Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky radio and telegram proclamation ‘The Russian Army and the Russian people cannot and will not, wait any longer.’
France: First meeting of Great Inter-Allied Conference opens in Paris.
British Premier Lloyd George meeting with French Premier Georges Clemenceau for tomorrow's Allied war council. © IWM (Q 57040): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...486021789192192
United Kingdom: Air Force (Constitution) Act, 1917, comes into operation in Great Britain (see December 21st, 1917 and January 3rd, 1918).

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: British troops at Cambrai launch an attack with 30 tanks against Bourlon and Fontaine, but lose gained ground to German counterattacks.
Germans attack Belgian positions near Aschhoop.
Artillery activity in Ypres sector.
A wounded Canadian and German soldier light up their cigarettes near Passchendaele: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...589135011729413

Eastern Front
Russian artillery in Trotus (Moldavia) valley breaks up Austro-Hungarian operations.
Otherwise, cessation of hostilities on Russian front.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Austro-German efforts on the River Piave fail.
British monitor destroys bridge of boats at Passarella, five miles up the Piave.
The first operational sorties are flown by the Royal Flying Corps in Italy. Royal Aircraft Factory RE8s from No.34 Squadron attempt a photographic reconnaissance of the Montello front, escorted by the Sopwith Camels of No.28 Squadron. The flight shoots down 1 Austrian single-seater but fighter attacks prevent RE8 photo-reconnaissance.
A German Albatros fighter on a reconnaissance mission on the Italian front: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...alpen.jpg?ssl=1 [note: although labelled an Albatros by the caption, this aircraft is clearly a Pfalz D-III (or D-IIIa); Austria-Hungary didn’t use the Pfalz, so perhaps the aircraft is on a training or home-defense flight over the Bavarian Alps: the main user of the Pfalz was Bavaria]
French 75mm field gun converted as an anti-aircraft gun at the Macedonian Front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...891144642351104

Political, etc
Germany: Germany accepts Lenin's offer of an armistice. Russian delegates cross German lines. Count Hertling willing to treat with Bolsheviks. Kaiser wires Kuehlmann to try for Russian alliance ‘in spite of everything’.
Russia: Allied nations warn Russia not to conclude a separate peace with Germany, while Russian and German delegates begin talks for an armistice.
United Kingdom: Letter in "Daily Telegraph" from Lord Lansdowne calling for a re-statement of Allies' War Aims, and urges compromise peace with Germany.
War Cabinet bars Bolshevik propaganda and suspends all warlike aid.
British newsreel “Topical Budget” showing tank scenes from the Battle of Cambrai and other news: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/5440

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: The German counter-attacks at Cambrai begin in earnest (see 20th and December 3rd), with 0830 hours barrage including much gas shell. German Second Army, reinforced to 20 divisions, employs infiltration tactics and close air support, tested at Riga and Caporetto. The attacks on the salient at Vendhuille, Bourlon Wood and Moeuvres penetrate British position as far as La Vacquerie and Gouzeaucourt, capturing 6,000 PoWs and 158 guns in advances up to 3 miles. British Guards Div counter-attack regains La Vacquerie, then 36 tanks arrive. British Army’s youngest general, Brigade-General ‘Boy’ Bradford, Victoria Cross (GOC 186th Brigade, 62nd Division) killed by shell outside his headquarter, aged 25.
At least 30 low-flying Schlachtflugzeug (‘battle aircraft’) support German advance in south, more in northern sector. 10 Australian DH5s of No 68 Squadron assist British afternoon counter-attack. c.50 Royal Flying Corps aircraft and as many German over Bourlon Wood, both sides strafe. British claim 11 German aircraft lost, 7 British.
German soldiers collect their equipment before the counterattack at Cambrai: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...mbrai.jpg?ssl=1
Flanders: Tbritish claim that the total German casualties since July 31: c.400,000 soldiers.
France: 129,623 AEF (American Expedition Force) personnel in Europe.
Germany: Transfer of 42 divisions (over 500,000 traps) from Eastern Front and elsewhere to West begins until March 21, 1918.
Britain: Vickers Vimy twin engine heavy bomber first flies.
OHL has 144 twin-engine bombers in 7 Bogohl (36 in Bogohl 3 against England).
British troops showing off a captured donkey (wearing a German helmet) and cart once held by the Germans at the Battle of Cambrai. TMB on the sign possibly means Trench Mortar Battery: © IWM (Q 6341): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...951543878275072

Southern Front
Macedonia: In Doiran region and north of Monastir, French and British batteries destroy Bulgarian dumps and break up positions.
French bomb valley of the Vardar and north of Monastir.

Naval and Overseas Operations
During November Allied and neutral shipping losses to U-boats lowest of 1917, with 126 ships (56 British with 376 lives) worth 289,095t (U-boat figure 302,599t, including 104,479t in Mediterranean) and 8 U-boats lost. 90% of British ocean-going shipping now in convoy.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
At Auja, Palestine, Australian Light Horse surround Turks, taking 148 prisoners.
British raid Turks at Beth Horun Upper (10 miles west of Jerusalem), taking 300 prisoners.
Mesopotamia: RFC bomb German Kifri airfield (night November 30-December 1), but fail to check reconnaissance for Turks.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Austro-Hungarian Government accept Bolshevik proposals to negotiate for an armistice and peace (see 21st and December 3rd).
Germany: German press approves Lord Lansdowne's letter.
United Kingdom: Allied standing Naval Conference formed in London (see January 24th) creates coordinating Allied Naval Council including politicians for first time.
British claim that prisoners in all theatres taken by British during November are 26,869 and 221 guns.
Coventry aircraft works on strike, 50,000 men and women idle.
Canada: Anti-draft riot breaks out at a meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec, preventing the Canadian Minister of Justice from speaking.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Gonnelieu recovered, but British withdraw from Masnieres salient.
The Germans attack heavily at Bourlon Wood and claim 4,000 prisoners and 60 guns.
RFC more active than Germans, 5 air combats cost 3 German and 1 British aircraft with 2 balloons.
Verdun: Violent German attack north of Fosses Wood, others fail to reach Avocourt and Forges (December 4, artillery duels northeast of city on December 8).
Record of 4,338 Royal Flying Corps aircraft serviceable.
Wounded Canadian soldiers and captured German prisoners sitting together at a dressing station: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...310160645152769

Eastern Front
M. Vladimir Lenin demands surrender of General Nikolai Dukhonin, former Commander-in-Chief.
Russian General Staff surrenders at Mohilev.
Partial cessation of hostilities

Southern Front
In December first all-Greek reconnaissance-bomber escadrille (French-trained) formed, 3 other units created by Armistice.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain: US CNO Benson promises Italian Marine Minister in London five 5,000-t merchant ships and 2 or 3 tankers, minesweepers, tugs, small escorts and 5-inch guns. US "dreadnought" division of 4 battleships (Rear-Adm Rodman in battleship New York) joins Grand Fleet.
Germany: During December all U-boats withdrawn from Baltic (last sinking was in October).
Western Mediterranean: During December 751 merchant ships arrive at Gibraltar, 252 with coal, 56 handle cargo, 107 repaired.
East Africa: German East Africa declared clear of enemy; von Lettow-Vorbeck retires across Rovuma river (Portuguese boundary).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Turkish 19th Division’s German-style storm battalion destroyed attack of ALH and 52nd Division at El Burj. Kress hands over Eighth Army to Djevad Pasha. 2 Australian armored cars liberate Hebron in 210-mile round trip looking for a Turkish agent until December 2.
German officer inspecting a company of Turkish storm-troopers in Palestine. The soldiers and their commander wear the special Turkish steel helmet which differed slightly from the German original: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...uppen.jpg?ssl=1
Record of 692 RFC aircraft serviceable.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Neue Freie Presse prints Ludendorff interview: ‘Russian Revolution … is the outcome of our victory we can conclude an armistice with Russia only when we are certain it will be observed’.
Germany: German Foreign Secretary Richard von Kühlmann declares that Germany will only ask for “mild” peace terms from the Allies.
France: Allied Supreme War Council begins work at Versailles and presents plans for 1918 on December 13. Meeting is attended by the Premiers of Britain, France, and Italy. “Colonel” E. M. House represents the U.S. Allied Prime Ministers decide no more supplies for Russia, but guarantee Rumania’s monarchy and prewar territory and defer Polish question.
United Kingdom: British official casualties in November numbered 120,089 men, with 25,444 killed in action.
Canada: Canadian Victory Loan; Over £70 million subscribed.
India: (Listed for yesterday): Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose establishes the Bose Institute in Calcutta, one of the first research institutions in India.
United States: The first of the U.S.’s wooden merchant ships, with a tonnage of 4000 tons and 290 feet in length and designed to make trans-Atlantic voyages, is completed in 120 days. An example of the wooden ships: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...279021091946496

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I had not seen anything on the "wooden ships" shown in that last photo link. Do you know anything more about them ... were they produced in large numbers? Were they successful? Speed? Etc.

Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Only limited air operations until December 6, with 3 German aircraft shot down (2 by McCudden), 3 British with 2 missing.
Germans make a failed attempt to recover high ground about La Vacquerie.
British troops launch an attack towards Westroozebeke near Passchendaele, but are repulsed by German defenses with heavy casualties.
Further fighting north of Passchendaele.

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Russian and German Peace Delegations welcomed by Prince Leopold of Bavaria (Commander-in-Chief). Suspension of hostilities between the Russian and German Armies begins (see 8th). [The actual suspension of hostilities took place on dates fixed by the local Arms Commanders (see 8th) in anticipation of truce arranged between the official negotiators (see 6th).]
Arrival of the Russian negotiators Adolph Joffe, lev Karakhan and Leon Trotsky in Brest-Litovsk, seat of the German headquarters on the Eastern Front: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...towsk.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italian strength 552 battalions plus 86 Anglo-French as 3 British divisions take over Montello sector (until December 4) and 3 French Mt Tomba area, but not attacked as expected. Three German divisions ordered back to Germany, 4 remain. Emperor Charles suspends main offensive though Trentino attack to go on.
Intense artillery action on Asiago Plateau.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: Coastal submarine UB-81 (1 survivor) mined and sunk off the Owers near Portsmouth.
Mozambique: Lettow captures Portuguese Fort Nanguari with food and ammo in Ukula Hills on river Lugenda, has already split force into columns under Wahle and Goering.

Political, etc
Russia: Lavr Kornilov and 5 fellow generals (including Anton Denikin) escape from prison in Bykhov, head for Don by train.
Turkey: General Hans von Seeckt appointed CoS and adviser to Enver at Constantinople.
United States: So far 1,348 U.S. soldiers have died, with 937 from “natural causes,” 352 to accidents, 18 lost at sea, 11 killed in action, and 30 due to other reasons.

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from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite...t_Corpor ation

A notable, possibly notorious, project was the wooden, ocean-going steamer. William Denman had been an early proponent of these ships, as the nation had abundant lumber supplies, and there was doubt whether domestic steel production could cope with the demands of shipbuilding in conjunction with other wartime pressures. Both British and U.S. officials considered the ships worthwhile if the ships could make a single, successful one-way voyage to the war. Still, the wooden ship program was so controversial that Edward N. Hurley, Chairman United States Shipping Board, had to defend them from "criticism and ridicule" with "I am convinced that we were amply justified in building the wood ships, although no one wished to assume the responsibility for them because of the criticism and ridicule which they had received."

Some of the several designs are commonly named Ferris Designs after Theodore E. Ferris, the official naval architect for the USSB. Ferris designed both steel and wood ships for mass production. One design, 1001, was for wooden 3,500 ton steam freighters with dimensions of approximately 281 X 46 X 23.5 feet (7.2 m) built largely of precut, numbered components of pine or Douglas fir.

There were other wooden ship designs, many unique to regional yards, and a large wooden fleet was built, one that has been called by some the "white elephant" fleet. Some were burned in accidents; however others were burned after the war to recover valuable metals. For example, in 1922 Western Marine and Salvage Company (WM&SC) of Alexandria, Virginia bought 233 such ships for $750,000 so that the ships could have machinery removed in Alexandria and then towed back to the anchorage on the Potomac and burned to regain remaining scrap. That activity brought protests from watermen and the operation was moved to in 1924 to 566 acres (2.29 km2) of company owned farmland surrounding Mallows Bay in Maryland.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Battle of Cambrai, ends (see November 20th, 1917 and October 8th, 1918).
British withdraw at La Vacquerie and east of Marcoing, and bridgehead over canal.
German forces at Cambrai claim the capture of another 2000 British soldiers and 40 artillery guns in their attacks against the British salient.
Ypres: British gain ground south-west of Polygon Wood.
Haig warns his army commanders: ‘… situation on the Russian and Italian fronts … the paucity of reinforcements which we are likely to receive will in all probability necessitate adopting a defensive attitude for the next few months. We must be prepared to meet a strong and sustained hostile offensive’.

Eastern Front
First session of armistice [Also known as "Truce Delegates" and "Peace Delegates."] delegates at Brest-Litovsk-Bolshevik Russia, and Bulgaria, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey (see 6th, and November 30th).
General Nikolai Dukhonin murdered by mob of soldiers and sailors at Mohilev station. General Lavr Kornilov escapes.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): 213 Austrian guns and mortars heavily bombard (mainly gas shell) Mt.Sisemol to Mt.Badenecche until December 4.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British 74th Division battalion (286 casualties) takes but loses Beit-Ur-el Foka.
Mesopotamia: Third Action of Jebel Hamrin: Egerton’s 20,000 men with 116 guns and Colonel Bicharakov’s 1,000 Cossacks advance against 4,400 Turks with 34 guns, occupy Sakaltutan Pass on December 4, take Kara Tepe on December 5, inflict 542 Turk casualties for 219.
British drive Turks out of Kara Tepe; Turks flood country between Nahrin and Diala rivers.
Armenia: War Cabinet decide to meet ‘any reasonable demands for money from Russian Caucasus Army.’ Russians attempt to co-operate from Persia.

Political, etc
Germany: German Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General von Ludendorff both express confidence in victory due to Russia’s Revolution, the German submarine campaign, and ineffectiveness of the U.S.
France: Allied Conference in Paris resolve to establish an Allied Maritime Transport Council (see January 6th and November 3rd, 1917 and February 15th, 1918).
7,000 strikers close Saint*-Etienne munitions factory until December 5.
United Kingdom: CIGS cables General Ballard (Liaison Officer with Rumanian Army) to finance Kaledin ‘up to any figure necessary’.
Voluntary food ration scale issued for all under 18. 4 German PoWs briefly escape from Farnborough.
Italy: First day of compulsory food rationing in Rome.
Bulgaria: Bulgaria declares readiness to negotiate war settlement.
Romania: Russian C-in-C General Dmitry Shcherbachev informs King Ferdinand of Mackensen’s ceasefire approaches.
United States: War Savings and Thrift stamps go on sale.
Shell casing from the first U.S. shot against Germany on the Western Front is presented to President Wilson at the White House.

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Thanks. That was very interesting. Almost sounds like the reluctance of the British government to accept the Mosquito aircraft in WWII. I think the idea as a good one.

Western Front
British obliged to evacuate salient of Brulon wood at Cambrai (night December 4-5 til 7) by threat of renewed German attacks, and loathsome conditions created by unburied corpses, clouds of poison gases and pools of stagnant water.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Viktor von Scheuchenstuel’s Eleventh Army (35 battalions) eliminates Mts Meletta-Badenecche salient northeast of Asiago in 4 hours, taking 16,000 PoWs, 90 guns and 200 MGs until December 5, helped by inadequate Italian gas masks and incompetent General Armani (later sacked); Italian 29th Division destroyed.
Austrian artillery very active towards Brenta river.
Elsewhere, Italian forces repel German and Austro-Hungarian attacks on the Asiago plateau, despite heavy artillery bombardment by the Central Powers.
Austro-Hungarian Major General von Vidale at his headquarters overseeing the attack on Italian troops defending the Meletta: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...709380086181889

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Minor actions north of Jaffa and on Jerusalem road.
British seaplanes active.

Political, etc
France: Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon signs decree forming independent Czech Army. A group of Czechoslovak soldiers in French uniforms on the Western Front. They were recruited from captured or deserted Austro-Hungarian soldiers: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...front.jpg?ssl=1
United Kingdom: Operations at Aden described in House of Lords.
United States: Wilson message to Congress says peace will come when German people agree to a settlement of ‘justice and reparation’: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wood...Union_Addres s
US War Trade Board blacklists 1600 German firms in Latin America.
Finland: Declaration of Independence of Finland from Russia is read in the Finnish Senate. It will be voted on the 6th: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...739600155602944

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