Western Front
Battle of Courtrai: Flanders army advances, taking part of Courtrai, etc. Corporal Adolf Hitler (16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment) wounded by BEF gas shell (evacuated half-blinded to Pasewalk hospital, Pomerania).
Last shelling of Dunkirk by long-range gun.
Artois: OHL orders Sixth and Seventeenth Armies to retreat into Hermann line.Germans retreats from Douai-Lille front, pursued by British.
Meuse: AEF breaks through kriemhilde lines in fierce attacks (October 16, 17 and 18). German coy commander writes home ‘… a quick end is to be hoped for, there is nothing more to be saved’. Americans enter Grand Pre after hard fight.
Strong German counter-attack on River Selle.
Aisne: French troops (Gouraud) cross river storming Vouziers heights and capturing Grandpre.
American Mk V Tanks attacking German trenches:
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Southern Front
Salonika: Greece cleared of Bulgarians; Proclamation issued.
Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Armenia: Armenian General Andranik harassing Turkish communications about Erivan.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Syria: British cavalry completes the capture of the city of Homs from the Ottomans as the advance towards Aleppo progresses. The city of Homs:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...105631602286592
Siberia: Bolsheviks try to stop Middlesex battalion at Zema.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy submarine
L.12 sinks
U-90 in Skagerrak,
G.2 likewise dispatches
U-78 on October 28.
Germany: Fast light cruiser Frauenlob II launched at Kiel.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl issues manifesto proclaiming a Federal State six self-governing nationalities, but Transylvania to remain Hungary’s, on the principle of Nationality (see 5th and 29th).
Row in Hungarian Parliament.
Germany: Peace demonstrations in Berlin; public opinion much disturbed.
Russia: M. Vladimir Lenin again wounded. Lenin posing with his books in his Kremlin office in Moscow:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...122099630919680