Western Front
Great aerial activity in Flanders: Courtrai, Ledeghem and Douai bombed.
Air raids into Germany on Mannheim, Treves and Thionville.
French repulse trench raids north of Aisne river and at Caurieres Wood.
American Marines training to dig a trench in France:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...856437628063744
Men of the Indian Labour Corps carrying large saws at a forestry camp in Lyon, France: © IWM (Q 8497):
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Men of the Gordon Highlanders next the ruins of Arras Cathedral: © IWM (Q 7263):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...174800623472641
Eastern Front
Crimea: Red Guards take Feodosia and Yalta, suppress Tartar counter-revolt.
Southern Front
Italy reports that German and Austro-Hungarian troops have withdrawn from trenches around Monte Tomba. Italians occupy Austrian advanced post at Capo Sile.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Naval aircraft continue to bomb
Yavuz Sultan Selim (aka
Goeben).
Mozambique: German post at Pamuni Hill taken.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Turkish air raids on Baghdad cause slight damage (until January 25).
Arabia: Fakhri Bey’s 1,000 troops from Amman and Kerak surprise Arabs east of Tafila.
South Persia: Burma Mounted Rifles squadron cause c.105 casualties to robbers at Gumun northeast of Shiraz (and on January 27)
Arab infantry of the Turkish army on the march:
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Political, etc
General: Count Georg Hertling and Count Ottokar Czernin (German Imperial Chancellor and Austrian Foreign Minister) make public replies to statements of President Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George on War Aims (see 5th and 8th).
Russia: Lenin’s immediate peace policy rejected 9 vs 7 for Trotsky’s ‘no war no peace’.
United Kingdom: Lieut.-General The Hon. Sir H.A. Lawrence appointed Chief of the General Staff, British Expeditionary Force, France [Did not take up appointment till the 27th.]
Mr. Lloyd George and Signor Vittorio Orlando confer.
Lord Rhondda outlines comprehensive scheme of national food distribution; rationing of meat, butter, and margarine will begin February 25.