Western Front
Lorraine: US I Corps formed (General Hunter Liggett) at Neuf Chateau – 1st, 2nd, 26th and 42nd US Divisions.
US troops with Springfield rifles in front, probably from the ‘Rainbow’ division:
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A British corporal manning a machine gun at night at Cambrai: © IWM (Q 6969):
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Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Czernin receives Vienna’s appeals to make early ‘bread peace’.
British War Cabinet cables General Poole to destroy Allied military stores.
Southern Front
Austrian counter-attacks on new Italian positions are repulsed.
A small destroyed chapel on the Italian front near Romanziol:
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A church damaged by shelling at Tezze sul Brenta, Italy:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Construction begins on the HMS
Hermes, the first ship designed as an aircraft carrier, at Walker, England.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Considerable air and patrol activity in Palestine.
Amman (Hejaz railway) bombed.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Strikes in Austria.
Russia: Bolsheviks issue 24 hours' ultimatum to Romania. Corps Diplomatique secure release of Ambassador. Arrest of King of Romania ordered by Bolsheviks
United Kingdom: Results of Cambrai enquiry published. British War Cabinet satisfied German counterstroke did not surprise BEF commanders, but admits ‘breakdown’.
Draft of compulsory rationing scheme issued to Control Committees.
Italy: Public schools in Venice, Italy reopen today. They were closed when the Austro-Hungarian and German offensive threatened the city last year.
United States: War labor administrator appointed.
Mexico: After January 15, US agent captures German spy Lothar Witzke (alias Russian Pablo Waberski) in Nogales. Sentenced to death in Texas, but commuted and freed 1923.
Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser (future President of Egypt) is born in Alexandria.