Western Front
Major James McCudden, VC is killed in a flying accident at Auxi-le-Chateau in France, when his airplane crashes soon after takeoff:
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American soldier using a Lewis machine gun mounted on a tree trunk to target German aeroplanes: © IWM (Q 102015):
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Eastern Front
Volga: Red Eastern Front C-in-C Colonel Muraviev (militant Left Socialist Revolutionary) rebels at Kazan, sails down Volga to Simbirsk with 1,000 men.
Bolsheviks take Sizran and Bulgulma, and reach Stavropol (north-west of Samara).
Martial law at Moscow.
Southern Front
Successful Italian progress in Albania.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: General Horvath declares himself Provisional Ruler at Grodekovo northwest of Vladivostok.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Announced that ships lost homeward bound to U.K. since 1 January 1918 rather more than 1 per cent.
USA: Henry Ford launches first ‘Eagle Boat’ patrol vessel. 60 of 100 ordered built,
PE-1 commissions October 28, 1918.
‘Eagle Boat’ with 615 tons displacemenz and armament of 2x4in guns, 2x3in AA guns, 2 MGs, 1 Y-gun depth charge projector and depth charges. The crew was 72 men and maximum speed 18 knots with endurance of 3,500 miles:
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Northern Adriatic: Austrian
U-19 mined off Caorle, beaches and later plundered by Austrian troops.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Salzburg Conference opens re: economic relations of Central Powers.
Germany: Admiral Paul von Hintze succeeds Herr Richard von Kühlmann as German Foreign Minister (see August 5th, 1917 and October 4th, 1918).
United Kingdom: Appointments of Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P. as (British) Food Controller.