Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Germans attack on a mile front south-west of Morlancourt; German troops take a hill from the French near Mount Kemmel but fail to advance against a British and (especially) Australian counter-attack near Morlancourt.
A British soldier helping another get out of a dugout at Lievin, France: © IWM (Q 6625):
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Eastern Front
Siberia: Czech 1st Division first clashes with Bolsheviks at Chelyabinsk (east of Urals) and seizes town.
The Czech Legion itook over the control of the Trans-Siberian Railway:
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Southern Front
Great massing of Austro-German troops and artillery along Alpine lines and Friuli Plains for new offensive.
Naval and Overseas Operations
First million tons of ships ordered by U.S.A. on the seas.
Britain: Compulsory anti-submarine warfare training for Merchant Navy officers.
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS
Phoenix, sunk yesterday by Austro-Hungarian submarine SM
U-27. It is the only British warship sunk by the Austro-Hungarian Navy:
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Political, etc
Russia: Lenin’s Report on Foreign Policy to Central Executive Committee of Bolshevik Party and Moscow Soviet.
Lithuania: Kaiser proclamation declares Lithuania free and allied to Germany.
Canada: Prime Minister refuses farmers’ sons conscription exemption plea (10,226 drafted until November 22).