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Old 01-25-2018, 05:33 AM
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25 January 1918

Western Front
East of Loos, Germans make trench raid after heavy bombardment.
Great Allied air activity: Courtrai, Tournai, Ghent and Douai districts heavily bombed by British and Thionville, Freiburg and Ludwigshafen by French.

Eastern Front
Fight between Romanians and Bolsheviks at Galatz.

Southern Front
Piave
: British 5th Division relieves Italian VIII Corps (until January 27).
The new Italian commander-in-chief General Armando Diaz with a British divisional commander on the Piave: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...it-co.jpg?ssl=1
German Südarmee disbanded.
American Red Cross ambulance drivers in Milan, Italy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...205003282186247

Naval and Overseas Operations
Unsuccessful bombing of Yavuz Sultan Selim continues.
Mozambique: War Office report progress in East Africa.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: British bomb troops south of Shechem.
General Edmund Allenby's despatch issued.
Arabia: Battle of Tafila: Lawrence’s 600 Arabs (c.100 casualties) destroy Fakhri Bey’s force (over 200 PoWs, 2 guns, 27 MGs). Turks evacuate Kerak and retreat to Amman, Lawrence later awarded DSO. Turkish Fourth Army (Djemal Kuchuk) put under Falkenhayn with German CoS Major Papen.

Political, etc
Central Powers
: Germany and Austria-Hungary rejects Allied peace conditions, particularly on the point that Alsace-Lorraine be returned to France.
Russia: Red Commissar of Military Affairs orders sailors to stiffen all detachments sent to the interior.
United Kingdom: 36th Meeting of Irish Convention considers letter from Prime Minister.
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