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Old 01-13-2018, 09:11 AM
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13 January 1918

Western Front
Raid by Canadians north of Lens.
British soldier using a mirror attached to his bayonet as a makeshift periscope: © IWM (Q 8434): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...900370913124354
British soldiers having a meal in a shell hole near Ypres: © IWM (Q 8441): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...144459998941184
U.S. soldiers in France are ordered not to swear at mules, as mules respond better to kindness than to “cusses.”

Southern Front
Italy
: Italian Army has received 300,000 British gas masks.

Political, etc
Russia
: Reds continue imprisonment of Romanian Ambassador Diamandi (released January 15 after diplomatic corps protest) and seize Rumanian gold in retaliation for Bessarabia takeover, also order King of Romania’s arrest on January 15.
Lenin and Stalin’s Decree No 13 in Pravda backs Armenian self-determination.
Estonia: Estonian Government issue declaration of independence (see November 28th, 1917 and February 25th and November 11th, 1918).
United States: Worst cold wave in 19 years hits the U.S., as well as multiple snowstorms, exacerbating the coal shortage plaguing the nation.
Norway: Sugar, coffee, corn and meal rationing.
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Old 01-14-2018, 11:58 AM
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Western Front
British bomb successfully, by day, Karlsruhe, Thionville and Metz area.
French repulse attacks on Chaume Wood and make successful raid in Lorraine.
Canadian raid north of Lens, successfully destroying German positions and taking prisoners without casualties.

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk
: Von Kuhlmann warns Russians that German terms have now reached extreme limit.

Southern Front
Italians advance east of Brenta Valley in Asolone District and to lesser extent in Piave Delta. Italian 22nd Infantry Division reaches Mt Asolone summit, taking 400 PoWs, but forced off until January 16.

Naval and Overseas Operations
German destroyers bombard Yarmouth (Norfolk); six killed, six injured.
Harwich Force (Reginald Tyrwhitt promoted Rear-Admiral today above 48 captains) sails within 90 minutes of shelling starting but unable to intercept until January 15.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters

Tafile, south-east of Dead Sea, captured by Hejaz troops.

Political, etc
Russia
: Attempted assassination of Lenin at Petrograd, after he receives diplomatic corps, and speaks at departure of ‘first volunteers of the Socialist army’. Lenin is unhurt, but Fritz Platten, a Swiss Communist who forced Lenin to take cover from the fire, is slightly injured.
Soldiers of the socialist revolution. A relatively small party of 350,000 men should succeed in bringing a country with 150 million inhabitants under control: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ution.jpg?ssl=1
France: M. Joseph Caillaux arrested on treason charge of ‘peace intrigue’ with Germans during 1915 Argentina visit. Convicted on lesser grounds February 1920 and soon released.
United Kingdom: House of Commons reassembles. Sir A. Geddes introduces Man-power Bill. 420,000-450,000 men needed immediately.
Argentina: Allies sign wheat convention with Argentina.
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Old 01-15-2018, 11:11 AM
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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: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1917.jpg?ssl=1
A British corporal manning a machine gun at night at Cambrai: © IWM (Q 6969): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...628907169189893

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: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...598709187039232
A church damaged by shelling at Tezze sul Brenta, Italy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...930906624405504

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.
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Old 01-16-2018, 05:31 AM
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16 January 1918

Western Front
Verdun
: Successful French raid.
British again bomb Metz.
Men of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with their goat mascot near Sommes: © IWM (Q 10654): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...961112626036736

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk
: Settlement in principle arrived at between Central Powers and Ukraine.

Southern Front
Austro-Hungarian attack on Italian positions at Cape Sile (lower Piave) repulsed with “heavy” loss.
A church damaged by shelling at Tezze sul Brenta, Italy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...930906624405504

Naval and Overseas Operations
Spanish Commissioner guarantees all conditions were observed aboard Hospital ship Rewa.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: General strikes until January 21 over daily bread ration cut (7 1/2 oz to under 6oz) and Brest-Litovsk impasse involve nearly 100,000 workers in Lower Austria alone and Government taken by surprise. Spreads to Hungary on January 18.
Germany: Prussian Finance Minister Hergt declares sufficient American troops cannot reach Europe. Hindenburg letter removes Kaiser’s radical Civil Cabinet chief (for past 10 years) Graf von Valentini (who protests to Crown Prince).
Russia: CEC (Central Executive Committee of Bolshevik) adopts decree forming Red Army.
Soviet Russia sends an ultimatum to Romania demanding the release of detained Russians and punishment for Romanian officials who disarmed Russian troops.
United Kingdom: Committee of Enquiry into expenditure of Government Departments announced. Board of Trade and Munitions Ministry allowed to drill for oil.
United States: U.S. publishes documents referring to Caillaux case.
Fuel Administrator closes all non-war industry east of Mississippi for 5 days (January 18-22) plus nine Mondays to save moving coal.
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Old 01-17-2018, 11:52 AM
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17 January 1918

Western Front
(Listed for yesterday): French troops carry out a successful raid north of Badonviller in the Vosges, taking 40 German prisoners.
Canadian troops repairing a trench in Lens: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...320978381197317

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk
: At Brest-Litovsk, Central Powers reject Soviet Russia’s proposal that armies of the Central Powers leave occupied areas before official peace is concluded.
Ukraine: Red Guard drive on Kiev begins, takes Poltava on January 18.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Light cruiser Köln II completed at Hamburg, first of projected 10-ship class, only 5 launched and one other, Rostock II completed on March 28.
Mozambique: British War Office announces progress in East Africa.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Strikes and riots break out in Vienna due to reduced flour rations and the perceived lack of progress in the peace negotiations with Russia.
Emperor Charles cables Ottokar Czernin ‘If peace is not made at Brest-Litovks it will be revolution here, no matter how much there is to eat’.
Emperor Karl I and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary with Crown Prince Franz Josef Otto: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-Zita.jpg?ssl=1
United Kingdom: House of Commons defeat a bill that would have extended conscription to Ireland by a vote of 136 to 48.
Romania: Romania ignores Soviet Russia's ultimatum from yesterday, heightening tensions between Romania and Russia soldiers still stationed in the country.
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Old 01-18-2018, 05:31 AM
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Western Front
Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard is appointed as the first Chief of the Air Staff. He is succeeded as General Officer Commanding of the Royal Flying Corps in France, by Major General John Salmond.
German raids near Neuve Chapelle and Lens “repulsed”.

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk
: Germany refuses undertaking to withdraw troops from Russia. Trotsky breaks off talks, envoys leave to confer at home on January 20.
A professional revolutionary heads for peace talks with a Prussian general. The Germans knew that Russia could not stop their armies, but Trotzky hoped for a revolution in Germany: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...towsk.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
Italian patrols active on Asiago plateau.

Naval and Overseas Operations
HMS Cavendish (later HMS Vindictive), Royal Navy cruiser converted into an aircraft carrier, is launched. The ship later in the year after completion: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...714843428810752

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia
: Major-General Lionel Dunsterville arrives at Baghdad (left Karachi on January 6) to head British Mission to Caucasus.
Palestine: British advance at Dura, 12 miles north of Jerusalem.
British bomb Samaria.
Arabia: Arabs capture important Turkish convoy east of Medina.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Hungary
: Serious strikes in Budapest.
Russia: Bolsheviks send further two hours' ultimatum to Romania demanding passage of troops.
Constituent Assembly meets in Petrograd and denounces Bolsheviks.
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George again addresses Man-power Conference.
Australia: Mr. Hughes' Government defeats "No confidence" vote.
United States: U.S. Senate votes to oppose a planned shutdown of factories tomorrow, which would temporarily put millions of Americans out of work. The shutdown is planned to conserve coal supplies.
Finland: Mannerheim, Army C-in-C since President Svinhufvud’s promise of no Swedish intervention on January 16, takes night train from Helsinki to West coast port of Vaasa.
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Old 01-19-2018, 10:23 AM
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Western Front
Raids and counter raids in Cambrai sector.
British soldiers stacking captured German helmets for disposal at Metz: © IWM (Q 8444):
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Royal Field Artillery horses sheltered near a destroyed church in Ytres, France: © IWM (Q 8446): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...062126049619968
Squadron of British F.E.2b night bombers at Aire Aerodrome in France: © IWM (Q 11958): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...357806030782464

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British troops in Palestine advanced one mile on a four-mile front north of Jerusalem, taking Ottoman prisoners.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Hungary: 86th Infantry Regiment mutinies at Szabadka, 2 other regiments likewise (February 11 and 14).
Hungarian War Loan appeal: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...leihe.jpg?ssl=1
Germany: All passenger railroad traffic in Germany is reduced by 60 percent in order to free up capacity for the transport of soldiers and war-related materials.
Russia: Constituent Assembly forcibly dissolved by Bolsheviks.
United Kingdom: In Britain, it is announced that compulsory rationing will go into effect on February 25th.
Turkey: Mustaufi ul Mamalek succeeds Ain ed Douleh as Persian Prime Minister (see November 24th, 1917 and May 3rd, 1918).
Mushaver ul Mamalek succeeds Ala es Sultaneh as Persian Foreign Minister (see June 6th, 1917, and August 10th, 1918).
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Old 01-20-2018, 10:30 AM
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Western Front
Two British officers struggling to get through the mud near Arras: © IWM (Q 10626): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...418233888657408

Eastern Front
Ukraine
: French General Georges Tabouis vainly orders Czech Corps to cover Mogilev-Vinnitsa rail line against Germans.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Dardanelles
: Naval action outside the Dardanelles. Turkish cruiser Midilli (ex-German Breslau) and British monitors Raglan and M28 sunk. Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex-German Goeben) strikes mines and is beached (see 27th). After 65 Royal Navy Air Service raids drop 180 bombs (2 hits), she is refloated and towed into Constantinople end of March. Admiral Calthorpe arrives at Mudros to direct operations on january 25.
SMS Goeben, before she was transferred to Turkish control at the beginning of World War I: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...659795407130625
English Channel: Sloop H.M.S. Mechanician torpedoed and sunk by UB-35.
North Sea: German torpedo boats A.73 & A.77 mined and sunk; destroyer S.16 likewise.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: (Listed for yesterday): General strike in Austria-Hungary grows, with hundreds of thousands of people stopping work to protest the continuation of war and cuts in rations.
(Listed for today): General strike in Austria-Hungary wanes, as people return to work. However, demonstrations continue in Bohemia and Moravia, fueled by rising Czech nationalism.
Russia: Russian politicians Fyodor Kokoshkin and Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev are murdered in a Petrograd hospital by pro-Bolshevik sailors. The Ministry of Justice later revealed that the murders had taken place with the connivance of the Bolshevik Red Guard and the Commandant of the Hospital, Stefan Basov, who justified the murder on the grounds that there would be 'two less bourgeois mouths to feed'. Basov was brought to trial and convicted, but none of the murderers was ever caught.
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Old 01-21-2018, 11:56 AM
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Western Front
French trench raid in Argonne.
British bomb Thionville and Metz district. Royal Flying Corps bomb German Flanders airfields (and on January 23), Roulers (and on January 28), Menin, and Coutrai bombed (January 22).
Germany: Erich Ludendorff makes final decision to launch great spring offensive. D-Day to be March 14.
Lorraine: US 1st Division takes over 8 miles of trenches northwest of Nancy (first casualties January 30).
Flanders: Jan Smuts and Maurice Hankey visit GHQ (until Jnauary 26), find no alternative to Douglas Haig.
Paul von Hindenburg, Emperor Wilhelm II and Erich Ludendorff on the ordnance map: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...dorff.jpg?ssl=1
German prisoners stacking trees in Eawy Forest, France, while members of the French Native Labor Corps watch over: © IWM (Q 10238): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...110264701177862

Southern Front
Salonika
: 3 Royal Flying Corps aircraft fly to Mudros to share in bombing of battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (aka Goeben); 7 more aircraft sent on January 22 and 28, return on January 29.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Transport H.M.S. Louvain torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean by UC-22, resulting in 224 deaths and 16 survivors.
Mozambique: War Office reports ‘further progress’ in East Africa.
British occupy Mwembe.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia
: 12 Royal Flying Corps DH4s (1 lost to anti-aircraft guns) bomb German Kifri airfield. 2 German aircraft retaliate against Baghdad on January 24, Royal Flying Corps respond against Humr and Kifri airfields (night January 25-26).

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Strikes reported at an end, but 7 divisons permanently recalled from fronts and news leaks to Germany. Factory workers to get extra bread rations, at Army’s expense.
Germany: Germany announces agreement with Ukraine.
Emil Jellinek, an entrepreneur at the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (later Mercedes-Benz) who introduced the Mercedes 35hp car (named after his daughter), passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...095162086215680
Russia: Lenin discusses German peace terms with 63 Red leaders, 32 vote for ‘revolutionary war’
France: Ex-Interior Minister Louis-Jean Malvy’s Senate trial (until August 6).
United Kingdom: Sir E. Carson resigns.
Daily Mail attacks General Staff for squandering Britain’s manpower.
Man-power Bill passes Committee stage.
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Old 01-22-2018, 11:42 AM
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22 January 1918

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: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...sgabe.jpg?ssl=1
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.
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Western Front
Germans occupy trenches east of Nieuport (Belgian Coast) after heavy bombardment. French restore position later.
British bomb aerodromes at Courtrai and Ghent.
Champagne: French trench raid east of Auberive.

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk
: Negotiations between Russian Bolshevik Government and Central Powers once more suspended (see 8th, 22nd and 30th). M. Leon Trotsky declares policy of Central Powers to be "a monstrous annexation".

Southern Front
Otto von Below’s German Fourteenth Army headquarter closes.
General Otto von Below of the German 14th Arnym who led the attack against the Italians during the successful Battle of Caporetto. He is now needed on the Western Front: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Below.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Action between a British submarine and three German submarines reported from Canary Islands.
Britain: Royal Navy convoy sloops and 20 PC patrol boats (based at Pembroke) no longer to be used as Q-ships (had sailed regularly with convoys but as Q-ships since October 1917).

Political, etc
Russia
: Rioting with much bloodshed in Moscow.
Congress of Soviets meets in Petrograd.
British form Allied Petrograd Trade Barter Co to stop supplies falling to Germans. Kerensky reaches Helsinki from Petrograd.
Ukraine: Ukrainian Central Rada proclaims the complete independence of the Ukrainian People’s Republic from Russia: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...524242891837441
France:
United Kingdom: Public Meals Order issued.
Average daily expenditure: 7.5 millions.
Appointment of Sir H. Lawrence to be Chief of the General Staff, France, vice Sir L. Kiggell; other H.Q. appointments announced.
New Army officers to be employed more in staff and higher ranks.
Labour Party Conference meets in Nottingham.
Signor Vittorio Orlando, Italian Prime Minister, arrives in London.
United States: A 5-day shutdown of U.S. industries, caused by coal shortages, ends today, but the nation still faces fuel supply problems.
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24 January 1918

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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...871536384274432
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: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...b-inf.jpg?ssl=1

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.
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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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26 January 1918

Western Front
Germans report they stage air attacks on Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne.
Germany: OHL publishes The Attack in Position Warfare, bible of 1918 offensives, stresses attack in depth with air support.
Somme: British Fifth Army relieves French Third Army from St Quentin south to Barisis, south of river Oise until January 30.
Flanders: Haig dines with Asquith (visiting his surviving son).
Funeral for a Canadian officer killed in action on the Western Front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...552268131815424
Australian soldier in a flooded communications trench: © IWM (E(AUS) 1497): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...612681338904577

Southern Front
Austrian attempt at Capo Sile repulsed.
Austrians bomb Mestre and Treviso; Italians claim that they damage hospitals.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Submarines sunk Dublin steam packet S.S. Cork and Spanish steamer Giralda.
U-boats’ costliest day of the war.
Channel: Returning U-109 blown up in Dover Barrage (only 5 High Seas Fleet boats try it outward bound in January). Note: U-109 may actually have been lost two days later. Destroyer HMS Leven depth charges and sinks coastal submarine UB-35 north of Calais.
St George’s Channel: Royal Navy PC.62 rams and sinks U-84. The vessel responsible is sometimes listed as a United States patrol craft, but as far as I can tell, no US vessel was issued this hull number. There was, in fact, an HMS PC.62 . The US did use the PC-designation, but as a follow-on to the earlier SC, so any 62 hull numbers should have been under that category (there was in fact, an USS SC-62). HMS PC.62 however, was a modification of the British P-class patrol sloops, the PC-class sloops being those P-class that were modified as Q-ships.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia
: Battle of Tafila: Turkish attacks near Tafila and Maan repulsed by Hejaz troops.


Political, etc
Germany
: With the popular Hindenburg war bonds are advertised in Germany: ‘Times are hard, but the victory is certain’: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...leihe.jpg?ssl=1
Russia: Ukraine declares its complete independence.
Provisional Siberian Government elected by Regional Government at Tomsk.
Ensign Krylenko, acting Soviet Russian Commander in Chief, naval troops: “We are against the whole world. We shall fight for the revolution, and the revolution alone.”
Canada: 4,036 RFC airmen trained in past year (34 fatal accidents); 200 trained pilots per month sent to Britain in 1918.
United States: President Woodrow Wilson cancels all engagements today due to catching a cold.
Finland: Red Guards mobilize at midnight.
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