Western Front
Cambrai: South of Marcoing British regain portions of Welsh Ridge. However, a German attack at Cambrai retakes British lines on a two-mile front and captures several hundred prisoners, further reversing the gains the British had made there last month.
Canadian soldiers walking in the snow:
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Southern Front
Piave: Heavy snows in the Alps halt infantry actions at the front in Italy, slowing down the German and Austro-Hungarian offensive.
French 47th Division (259 casualties) recaptures Mt Tomba in 25 minutes with nearly 1,564 PoWs. Austrians forced to evacuate Zenso bend bridgehead, Lower Piave. And also storm Austrian trenches east of M. Grappa.
Salonika: Sir R Ross urges the minimum of 15,000 British malaria cases be sent home; 9,000 repatriated by April 30, 1918.
Padua again bombed.
Austro-Hungarian dressing station on the Italian Front:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Troopship H.M.S.
Aragon torpedoed in Mediterranean, by SM
UC-34 with the loss of 610 lives. British destroyer
Attack mined and sunk off Alexandria by
UC-34 while rescuing survivors of torpedoed troopship
Aragon (610 lost). Fleet auxiliary
Osmanieh sinks on another mine on December 31 (198 lives lost).
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British defence of Jerusalem ends (see 26th). British continue advance north; take Bethel, etc.
Turkish casualties since December 27: over 1,558 (558 PoWs) and 9 MGs vs British EEF of 1,360 soldiers, 1 armored car and 2 MGs. Total Turkish losses since October 31, 1917: 28,443.
Political, etc
United States: Tuskegee Institute releases report that 38 African Americans were lynched in the United States this year.
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