Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: British take 600 yards of German trenches at Villeret (N.N.W. of St. Quentin).
Verdun: End of Third French offensive at Verdun. Meuse, right bank: heavy fighting, German counter-attack repulsed.
France: c.2,000 British troops mutiny at Etaples Infantry Base Depot (until September 14) due to poor conditions and Third Ypres reinforcement system, 3 sentenced to death after GHQ detachments restore order. British military police fires into an angry crowd of soldiers, killing a Scottish soldier.
Etaples was one of the Allied training camps for troops on the Western Front, which also served as recreational centers for soldiers from the front line. Strengthened discipline and attacks of the military police in Etaples resulted in unrest: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...aples.jpg?ssl=1
A British sergeant in the trenches watching German lines with a mirror attached to his bayonet at Nieuport Bains: © IWM (Q 2876): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...174093929664515
Regimental dog of the 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, on top of a horse near Cassel, France: © IWM (Q 3060): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...204310291312642
A Belgian officer reading a paper, smoking, and fishing near Pervyse: © IWM (Q 2962): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...506259305820162
British and Belgian officers & reporters examining a German artillery shell dud at Houthem: © IWM (Q 2945): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...537718523539456

Southern Front
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo: Austrians claim 6,000 prisoners near Hermada.
Macedonia: French advance near Lake Ochrida.
Italian Front: General O Below takes command of new German Fourteenth Army for projected offensive, plans drafted by September 10; 7 German and 8 Austrian divisions with 1,000 guns (800 German) pass through Trentino onto Dravel and Sava valleys 60 miles east of Caporetto, all marches at night.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Cadiz: German submarine, UB-49, short of oil, enters, and is interned. (it escapes Spain on October 6th).

Political, etc
Russia: Kerensky sacks Kornilov and issues arms to Petrograd Soviet. Rail workers prevent Kornilov’s advance as Soviets mobilize 25,000 workers. 3,000 Kronstadt sailors reinforce capital on September 10. Revolutionaries then Cossacks seize C-in-C Western Front General Denikin.
With German forces approaching Petrograd, partial evacuations of the city begin. The official reason blames food shortages.
United Kingdom: King's special decoration for 1914 campaign announced.
United States: U.S.A. publishes disclosures re: Swedish Legation at Buenos Aires.

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: British take 400 yards more trench at Villeret.
French troops resting & posing for the camera on the roadside near Houthem on their way to the front: © IWM (Q 2986): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...840956309254145

Eastern Front
Russian Twelfth Army takes up position 30 miles north-east of Riga; German pursuit.
Russian “Battalions of Death” counterattack German forces 32 miles northeast of Riga and manage to halt their advance in some areas.

Southern Front
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo: ”Stormtroopers” throwing grenades on the Isonzo Front facing Italy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...901349375373312
Albania: French troops enter Pogradec, on southwest side of Lake Ochrid (also spelled Ochrida).

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: US Atlantic Fleet C-in-C Admiral Mayo visits Grand Fleet (since September 9).
British ships of the Orion class in Moray Firth, Scotland, while American ships are in the background: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...round.jpg?ssl=1
Mediterranean: German U-boats ordered not to attack unescorted Allied hospital ships (Spanish naval officer commissioners now placed aboard to ensure neutrality).
Baltic: 2 destroyers sent from Reval to protect Petrograd against Kornilov; most officers sign loyalty oath to Provisional Government but 4 shot for refusing. Revolutionary Execution created.

Political, etc
Germany: Hindenburg and Ludendorff note to Chancellor and War Minister; many exempted workers to be called up by spring without cutting munitions production.
Russia: General Kornilov approaches Petrograd.
M. Aleksandr Kerenski assumes Dictatorship of Russia (see August 6th and November 8th) and issues proclamation declaring General Kornilov a traitor (see 8th and 13th). Provisional Government resigns.
United States: State of Maine votes down women’s suffrage by a ratio of 2 to 1.

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Legendary French ace Georges Guynemer (54 victories) missing over Poelcapelle aged 22, first revealed in London (September 27) on a day Germans claim 6 Allied single-seaters.
French fighter ace Georges Guynemer (second from right) in front of his Morane-Saulnier Type L fighter: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-MS-L.jpg?ssl=1
British bomb south of Lille and Roulers region heavily.
British seaplanes bomb Zeebrugge mole and air sheds.

Eastern Front
Romania: Battle of Ciresoaia: (until September 12): Russo-Rumanian attack fails, last major fighting in sector.

Southern Front
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo: After shelling of record intensity Italian 11th Division captures Mt San Gabriele with 2,000 PoWs but Austrian fire forces it 100 feet below summit; Lieutenant-Colonel Sauer of Austrian 14th Regiment ‘Who could fully describe this San Gabriele, this sort of Moloch which swallows up a regiment every three or four days …’.
Austro-Hungarian counter-attacks on Bainsizza Plateau and north-east of Gorizia heavily repulsed.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Eastern Atlantic: U-49 (Hartmann) rammed and sunk by SS British Transport west of Biscay, having claimed 38 ships worth 86,433t.

Political, etc
Russia: Despite being labeled a traitor by the Russian government, General Kornilov & his troops are 33 miles from Petrograd & closing.
Kornilov issues final Order No 900 and appeal to the people.
United Kingdom: First party of repatriated British prisoners reaches England from Switzerland (see May 13th, 1916).
Italy: British War Minister Lord Derby visits Cadorna at Udine, promises 160 British heavy guns (200 Anglo-French guns sent on September 18).

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Western Front
French headquarters estimate German losses to end of July at four millions.
Two British Mark IV tanks moving through the woods near Elverdinge, Belgium: © IWM (Q 3547): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...265080793976837

Southern Front
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo: Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (see August 17th). Italians hold on stubbornly north-east of Gorizia.
Italian losses since August 10 a record of 166,000 men (18,000 PoWs) so far. Austrians c.85,000 (29,000 PoWs).
French and Russian troops cross River Devoli (Albanian frontier), driving back Austro-Hungarian/Bulgarian forces twenty miles.
Another source gives more detail: French advance ends after 414 Austro-Bulgar PoWs and guns taken for 175 casualties in 20-mile advance; only real Allied 1917 Balkans success. Essad’s Albanians return from Skumbi valley raid with 156 Austrian PoWs on September 20.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Gulf of Riga still controlled by Russian warships; bombard German batteries on Courland shores. Germans prepare to capture Gulf of Riga Islands by amphibious operation (OHL approve on September 18); High Seas Fleet detaches 2 battle squadrons (10 ships), battlecruiser Moltke, 2nd Scouting Group (light cruisers) and 5 destroyer flotillas (47 ships). 19 German trawlers hunt Royal Navy submarine E.9 off Pomerania after latter misses 2 merchant ships (another miss on September 13).
Mediterranean: Fiction now ended that U-35, U-38 and U-39 Austrian flag warships at Austrian request.
North Atlantic: HM Submarine D.7 sinks U-45 north of Ireland.

Political, etc
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm returns from the Riga battlefields to Potsdam with a severe cold.
Russia: Russia on point of civil war.
France: M. Paul Painlevé succeeds M. Alexandre Ribot as French Premier (see 9th and November 14th).
M. Alexandre Ribot reappointed French Foreign Minister (see 9th, and October 23rd).
Bulgaria: Tsaritsa Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, the wife of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...536852252598272
Poland: Central Powers proclaim grant of temporary Constitution to Poland, (see April 5th and October 15th, 1917 and January 10th, 1918). Polish Regency Council created. (courts already transferred on September 1).
Argentina: Argentina hands passports to Count Luxburg. Argentine Parliament votes to sever relations (September 19 and 25) despite German apology (September 17) but President disagrees.

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: German “attack” near Langemarck repulsed.
German raids west of Craonne.
Germans penetrate French advanced line north of Caurieres Wood (Meuse).
British officers buying food from children at a marketplace in Cassel, France: © IWM (Q 2880): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...29807363British machine gunners hauling a large barrel of beer for their commanding officer’s birthday in Winnezeele, France: © IWM (Q 2881): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...658838966501376
Horatio Bottomley and his secretary wearing gas masks in a trench during his visit to the front: © IWM (Q 2809): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...924353127469057

Eastern Front
Odessa and Black Sea tranquil; population sympathise with Provisional Government.
Galicia: Germans evacuate Gusiatyn on border.
In Russia, the war blinds demonstrate for the continuation of the war: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...tzung.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Germany: Hoffmann diary ‘A German advance on Petersburg now would bring about the complete collapse of Russia’.
Russia: General Lavr Kornilov's revolt collapses (see 8th, 10th and 14th). General Alexeiev treats with General Kornilov. When the latter's revolt fails; his commander, General Krimov, kills himself. Kornilov surrenders to Alexeiev at Mogilev and is moved to Bykhov monastery. General Kaledin and Cossacks revolt. Russian Premier Kerensky also becomes Commander in Chief & mobilizes forces, including the Bolsheviks, in Petrograd to cement his rule. Soviets ban Cadets.
France: New French Cabinet announced.
United States: US Secret Service raid the home of Professor Scott Nearing, a pacifist and socialist activist, to find evidence of sedition. {nevertheless, he was later prosecuted, and after the war the organization he founded was found guilty of sedition. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott...First_World_War)
The “Gulf Between,” the first film to be shot in technicolor in the US, is released (the film is mostly lost today): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...954566205001734

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Western Front
Verdun: French drive Germans out of Caurieres Wood.

Eastern Front
Central Powers approach trenches near Focsani; repulsed everywhere by Romanians.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Austrians close Swiss frontier, but Italians warned from Berne of imminent attack, possibly on Middle Isonzo.
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm and the Crown Prince meet in Berlin to discuss the Pope’s proposal for peace.
Russia: General Kornilov surrenders to the Provisional Government (see 13th).
Kerensky proclaims Republic and Council of Five, but power really passing to Petrograd Soviet.
General Aleksandr Krymov, who commited suicide due to his part in the coup: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...014975096147968
Canada: War-Times Election Act enfranchises close women relatives of servicemen for duration of war and demobilization.
New Zealand: Sir J. Allen on New Zealand spirit.
Italy: British conference aims to supply Italy with 700,000t coal pm (including 60,000-70,000t US) on Gibraltar-Genoa route if Italy spares 11 destroyers for escort (conditionally accepted after long wrangle and Caporetto disaster on November 23).
United States: $2 billion naval spending in last year.
Elihu Root, former US Secretary of War and Secretary of State, says anyone who opposes the war are traitors.

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: London troops capture strong point north of Inverness Copse.
Germans repulsed by Portuguese at Neuve Chapelle.
Seaplanes successfully attack shipping between Blankenberghe and Ostend.
Aisne: Petain adopts plan for limited attack.
A German messenger dog in ‘flight’ as it races to the rear to deliver a message: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...r-dog.jpg?ssl=1
Two French veterans learning braille after being blinded at the front: © IWM (Q 53979): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...378626453852160

Southern Front
Four successive Austro-Hungarian counter-attacks on Bainsizza Plateau fail; Italians gain ground to south-east. Sassari Brigade captures Hills 895 and 862 on its eastern edge. General Below and his CoS Krafft visit Archduke Eugene to concert offensive plans.
destroyed Austro-Hungarian graveyard on the Isonzo front facing Italy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...288029374197760

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Hottest season on record at Baghdad.
Troops' health and spirits “excellent”.

Political, etc
Germany: Last battlecruiser Graf Spee launched at Danzig by Schichau but never completed despite 1,500 workers’ efforts.
Russia: Provisional Council of 5 declares Russia a Republic under M. Kerenski; new War Cabinet formed.
United States: A “tobacco parade” organized in New York City to raise money for tobacco for soldiers overseas: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...318235342372864
[ed note: Now, *THERE'S* a sign that times have changed.]

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: The cathedral at Ypres in ruins: © IWM (Q 2829: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...741029389570048
A barbed wire “gate” inside a British trench to close off access during raids: © IWM (Q 6021): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...992626040475648
German attack on Apremont Forest (St. Mihiel) fails.
Stuttgart, Colmar, Thionville and Saarburg bombed by French
Britain: Haig approves Byng’s Cambrai tank attack scheme.
Meuse: French repulse attack on Apremont Forest (St Mihiel).
France: The La Courtine Massacre: Loyal Russian troops (3rd Brigade) with 75mm mle 1897 battery storm La Courtine internment camp to suppress mutinous Bolshevik 1st Brigade (Globa), 200 miles south of Paris.
Two British officers enjoying beer at an officer’s club in Abbeville in the Somme: © IWM (Q 5960): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...710828651810816

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: German position at Kalimoto (north of Mahenge) captured.
Belgian troops (Colonel Huyghe) pursue.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Lawrence leads 100 Arabs against Mudauwara Station on Hejaz Railway, blows up and captures Turkish train (over 180 casualties including Austrian gunners) to south on September 19 and returns to Aqaba on September 21. ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ in British uniform: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...abien.jpg?ssl=1
Palestine: Major-General Bols succeeds Lynden-Bell (appointed October 27, 1915) as Allenby’s EEF CoS.

Political, etc
Russia: General Kaledin, Hetman of Don Cossacks, declares loyalty to Government.
United States: Entire sugar industry in the United States is put under federal control to stabilize supply and prices.

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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.

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Western Front
Heavy artillery and aerial activity continues around Ypres, as Britain prepares for another offensive in the area.

Southern Front
Luigi Cadorna cancels 12th Isonzo offensive and starts defensive preparations, tells Allies this on September 20 who halt guns for the Italians on September 25.
Trentino: Italian battalions take 200 PoWs in Val Sugana but fail in dash for Trento inspired by Czech officer deserters (night September 18-19) at Carzano.
Italian soldiers in the trench. The defense facilities in the Isonzo area are not strengthened, as the local authorities consider the site to be too difficult for the expected German-Austrian-Hungarian offensive: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...raben.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: U-boat sinks destroyer HMS Contest (50 survivors).
Mediterranean: British patrol instructions advise limit of 12 ships per convoy with 4 escorts.

Political, etc
France: Painleve redefines French war aims as Alsace-Lorraine and reparations.
United Kingdom: King George awards 21-year-old factory worker Lizze Robinson the Order of the British Empire; the 1st woman to receive it: © IWM (Q 54481): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...743852914962432
Turkey: Count Johann von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the U.S., arrives in Constantinople as the new ambassador to the Ottoman Empire: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...462016561119233
United States: More than 25,000 workmen in San Francisco shipyards go on strike in one of the biggest strikes in West Coast history.

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Western Front
Ypres: Sopwith Camel fighter first used as light bombers with four 20lb or 25lb bombs.

Eastern Front
German infantry attack Lemburg (east of Riga) repulsed with loss by Letts.

Southern Front
Fighting dying down on Italian front.
An Austro-Hungarian officer taking a field bath near the Isonzo front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...835718310158336

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Kilwa Force action at Mihambia (until September 20) costs 145 casualties and fails to cut off over 1,100 German troops retreat behind burning grass. British advance resumes on September 24 after thirst quenched.
British infantrymen in East Africa: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1917.jpg?ssl=1
Baltic: 20 Russian warships at Helsinki raise Red Flag.

Political, etc
Russia: M. Kerenski tries to limit powers of Extremists.
France: Vote of Confidence in French Government.
United States: 343,500 U.S.A. conscripts joined to date.
National Equal Rights League meets in New York City to urge equal rights for African American workers and soldiers.

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Battle of the Menin Road Ridge begins (see 25th): British advance east of Ypres and take Inverness Copse, Glencorse Wood, Veldhoek and part of Polygon Wood and 2,000 prisoners.
Australian soldiers run across the field while being targeted by artillery during the Battle of Menin Road: © IWM (E(AUS) 737): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...454775271043072
Third Allied attack of ‘Third Ypres’, directed by Plumer begun in mist. Main weight of attack with 11 divisions and 52 tanks thrusts against Passchendaele-Gheluvelt line in attempt to win high ground between Ypres and Roulers-Menin railway. Under unprecedented fire-layered 8-hour creeping barrage with gun to every 5.2 yards, British capture Inverness Copse, Glencorse Wood, Veld hoek, Hollebeke and part of Polygon Wood in average 1,500 yard advance despite 11 counter-attacks. Sergant W Burman of 16th Rifle Brigade uses his sword to kill 11 Germans in an MG post, wins Victoria Cross. GOC 19th Division T Bridges severely wounded, loses a leg. Letter from Captain Patton, US Cavalry, to wife: ‘The Germans shoot a gas which makes people vomit [note: this is ‘mustard gas’, known to the Germans as ‘Yperite’] and when they take off the masks to spit they shoot the deadly gas at them. It is a smart idea is it not ?’.
Royal Flying Corps RE8s plus balloons report or direct fire at 208 German batteries. 112 air combats, 11 British and 7 German aircraft lost.
British soldiers attempt to identify dead during the Third Battle of Ypres: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...lacht.jpg?ssl=1
A damaged German memorial at a war cemetery captured by the French: © IWM (Q 78160): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...213193372504070
Australian troops trying to rescue an officer whose parachute became entangled in a tree after he jumped from a balloon: © IWM (Q 5983): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...484989556477958

Eastern Front
The Central Powers attack thrice in Susitza Valley (Moldavia); repulsed by Romanians.

Southern Front
French and Albanian troops raid Austrians in Skumbi valley (Albania); 400 prisoners.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
General Cassini's column defeat Nuri Pasha at Zanzur (west of Tripoli City); Libyan rebel losses 1,600 etc.
Trans-Caucasia declares itself a Republic.
Russians defeat Turks near Ortobo (Bitlis, September 25).

Political, etc
Germany: Germany opens its 7th war loan to raise 50 million Marks for the war effort, urging the public to buy bonds.
Russia: General Mikhail Alexeiev resigns, Nikolai Dukhonin becomes effective C-in-C.
Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet resigns due to continued divisions within the fledgling Russian government.
United Kingdom: Sir A. Yapp, Food Controller.
Chambers of Commerce meets for better understanding of British war aims; addressed by Lord Northcliffe.
United States: Nation War Convention of U.S.A.
300,000 more conscripted Americans head to U.S. Army Camps to train for the war.
Argentina: Argentine Senate votes 23 to 1 to break off diplomatic relations with Germany.

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: German attacks on Tower Hamlets' ridge repulsed. Prisoners now exceed 3,000. (Another source specifies 3,243 ).
Royal Flying Corps Nos 100 and 101 Squadrons continue night bombing of Menin and Roulers against arriving German troops, using parachute flares (repeated September 25-26 and 26-27).
German PoWs in a British collection center. https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ngene.jpg?ssl=1
Men of the 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, prepare to advance during the Battle of Menin Road: © IWM (Q 5970): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...545407629021184
"The Menin Road,” by Paul Nash in 1919, depicting the battlefield near Gheluvelt at Ypres: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...575588305498112

Eastern Front
After holding enemy here for 18 months, Russians retire north from Jakobstadt (River Dvina).
Courland proclaims independence and requests German protection.

Southern Front
Second phase of Isonzo battle closed; neither side can hold Mte. S. Gabriele.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: German groups broken up west of Kilwa and Lindi; flee south to River Mbemkuru.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British bomb and cause surrender of Diwaniya (Euphrates).

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Publication of Count Bernstorff's correspondence with Berlin re: bribing Congress.
Canada: Canada passes the Wartime Elections Act, which gives the vote to women in the military and to wives, mothers, & sisters of serving soldiers.
Italy: Central Powers' reply to Papal Note.
Minor Allies: Costa Rica severs diplomatic relations with Germany (see May 23rd, 1918).

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From all the activity going on ... it seems almost hard to imagine that in barely more than a year, the Great War will end ... to be followed by long and drawn out peace negotiations (although the negotiations seemed to be more between the allies than with Germany.

Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: German forces again attempt to retake British gains at Ypres, but only gain south of the Menin Road with heavy losses.
“South African Scottish” troops carry a captured wounded German soldier during the Battle of Menin Road: © IWM (Q 2870): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...909007266709504
Stuttgart, Treves, Coblenz and Frankfurt bombed by French.
Ralph Curtis (pictured), British aerial ace with 15 victories, is killed in action in a dogfight with German pilot Hermann Göring: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...939226392457216

Eastern Front
Jakobstadt (Baltic) stormed by German forces (21st/22nd).
German forces capture the city of Jakobstadt (Jēkabpils, Latvia) from the Russians: © IWM (Q 29937): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...848619460333568

Southern Front
Slight Italian push in Marmolada region (Carnic).

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Only British air kill of a U-boat: Royal Navy Air Service H12 America flying boat (Flt Sub-lt N Magor) bombs coastal submarine UB-32.
The large Curtiss H12 America flying boat: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...gboat.jpg?ssl=1
Channel: Ostend attacked by British coast patrol. Dover Patrol monitor Terror shells Ostend (35 shells), sinks floating dock.
3 Royal Navy Air Service Sopwith Camel fighters over Dover Patrol destroy, force down or capture 4 German seaplanes from Ostend and Zeebrugge.
Atlantic: Convoys from Dakar start
East Africa: Battle of Bweho Chini: over 1,100 German troops and over 20 MGs (estimate over 340 casualties) just fail to storm surrounded Nigerian Brigade camp (134 casualties). Kilwa Force reunited on September 24. Belgians fight at Hyka on river M’kaha.

Political, etc
Italy: Germany and Austria-Hungary accept Pope Benedict’s proposal for an immediate armistice in the war. The Allies had already rejected it.
Argentina: Relations much strained between Germany and Argentina.

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