Western Front
German trench raids near St. Quentin and La Bassee.
Much British bombing at Roulers, Menin and Courtrai.
Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Russian Bolshevik Government accuse Central Powers of falsification of reports of proceedings (see 8th and 23rd).
Battle of Galati: Romanian troops defeat Russian troops in the country, forcing them to surrender and disarm. The battle was the first time in this war where formerly allied countries purposefully fought each other.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Adriatic: German and arsenal workers at Pola strike (until January 27) worsening U-boat repair situation (up to 17 per day), although leaders sacked.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Samaria again bombed.
Hejaz Railway: Arabs repulsed from Mudauwara Station despite 3 Royal Flying Corps attacks by 3 planes.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: A claim that the resignation of von Seidler (Austrian Prime Minister) took place; but this makes no sense, as numerous other sources list Ernst von Seidler as serving until July, 1918, and giving his actual title of Minister-President of Cisleithanien.
Ottokar Czernin back in Vienna asks permission to make separate peace if necessary, Austria has only two months grain.
Germany: Food distribution to the German civilian population in the last year of the war:
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France: French government announces it will cut bread rations, starting on the 29th, due to the need to feed arriving U.S. soldiers.
United Kingdom: First meeting of Allied Naval Council in London, including Admirals Ferdinand de Bon and Paolo Revel; agenda including neutral waters and potential fear of Germans seizing Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Basil Thomson (Special Branch) reports ‘a decided increase in letters for an immediate peace’.
Japan: Prime Minister Count Terauchi warns Russia that Japan will intervene in Eastern Asia “if necessary.”
United States: U.S War Department announces it will introduce limited usage of the metric system on maps and on ranges for machine guns and artillery.