Western Front
Airplane raid on London, Essex and Kent; 14 of 16 German bombers (1 Giant) attack southeast England, 6 reach London. Total of 11,300lb bombs cause 97 casualties (another sources gives 14 killed, 85 injured.), and £238,861 property damage, worst since Zeppelin Raid vom September 8-9, 1915. No 44 Squadron commander Captain Murlis Green MC achieves first night fighter success against aircraft over Britain in Sopwith Camelwith 4 attacks over East London, forcing Gotha to ditch off Folkestone (armed trawler Highlander rescues 2 survivors); 2 other Gothas burnt after crash landing.
A claim that heavy air fighting ends in Allies' favor on northern front.
A British soldier shaking hands with a kitten at Neulette, France: © IWM (Q 6400): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...469523818590209

Eastern Front
Ukraine: Ukrainian Rada rejects Red transit demands (Lenin ultimatum from December 17) and mobilizes and cuts telegraph links on December 19.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italian Fourth Army heavily attacked near Mt. Asolone (Mt. Grappa), Austro-Hungarians claim 2,000 prisoners.
Erwin Rommel’s Wurttemberg Mountain Batallion withdrawn from final but local and costly success (after German failure to take Mt Solarolo); he and his commander receive Pour le Merite.
A mountain gun is positioned on the Italian front: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...front.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
A photograph of the US submarine USS F-1, sunk yesterday in a collision with the submarine F-3: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...439472674766852

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British clear ground south-east of Jerusalem, beyond Abu Dir.
Armistice of Erzincan is signed, ending the fighting between Russian forces and the Ottomans in the Caucasian and Persian fronts.

Political, etc
Germany: Kaiser in Kreuznach Crown Council approves Armistice terms.
Russia: Trotsky appeals to Europe’s ‘oppressed peoples’ after Brest-Litovsk armistice signing.
Canada: In the Canadian federal election held yesterday, Unionists win 153 seats, while the Liberals win 82. The main issue of the election was over conscription, with the Unionists supporting it and the Liberals opposed.
Switzerland: Jan Smuts meets Austrian Albert von Mensdorff (ex-Ambassador to London) on separate peace chances (until December 19). Also, a claim that at Geneva, Lloyd George’s Secretary Philip Kerr meets Dr Parodi (Turkey).

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Western Front
Air defences finally told of Giant bomber, codenamed Bertie, after its eighth raid.
Five-engined Zeppelin Staaken ‘Gigant’ bomber: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...XV-03.jpg?ssl=1

Eastern Front
Odessa supports the Ukraine against the Bolsheviks.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Brisk fighting in Piave delta; Italian counter-attacks against Mts Rertica and Asolone fail to gain ground until fog and thick snow end operations on December 21.
German and Austro-Hungarian forces claim another 1000 Italian prisoners captured. Italian soldiers riding on the front of a train while retreating from Austro-Hungarian and German attacks: © IWM (Q 114386): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...801778017554433
British guns heavily engaged at Montello.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: New Dover Straits minefield claims first victim, coastal submarine UB-56 after Vice-Admiral Bacon advised to start flare and searchlight surface patrol along it.
Adriatic: 2 old Austrian battleships, 1 cruiser, 6 destroyers shell Italian Cortellazzo batteries again, but big ships withdrawn to Pola on December 20, 3 old battleships mothballed after December 28 to obtain personnel.

Political, etc
Canada: Conscription Law becomes effective.
The first ever NHL game is played between the Toronto Hockey Club against the Montreal Wanderers, with the Wanderers winning 10-9.
United States: U.S. Congress proposes a Constitutional Amendment which institutes alcohol prohibition to be ratified by the states. House of Representatives voted 282 to 128, Senate voted 47 to 8.

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Western Front
West of Messines, Germans capture British advanced post in fog.
Petain Directive urges defence in depth (and on December 22) but not all generals comply.
British soldiers throwing snowballs near Hesdin, France: © IWM (Q 8343): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...206841974251522

Eastern Front
Don: Lavr Kornilov arrives at Novocherkask, is made “White” Russian C-in-C.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians recapture part of M. Asolone.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Battle of Jaffa (until December 22): XXI Corps’ 8,100 men and 88 guns surprise cross river Auja on December 21, take 259 PoWs and 5 MGs from 6,200 Turks with 60 guns. 6 Royal Navy ships and 36 Royal Flying Corps planes aid 52nd Division 5-mile coast advance to Arsuf on December 22, Jaffa put out of Turkish gun-range. 54th Division captures Bald Hill and two villages inland.
British field artillery prepares for combat in Palestine: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ina-2.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Lower House adopts peace resolution.
Russia: Bolshevik Cheka [Всеросси́йская чрезвычайная коми́ссия по борьбе́ с контрреволюцией и саботажем, tr. Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya po bor'bye s kontrrevolyutsiyei i sabotazhem: "The All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage"] Secret Police founded under Felix Dzerzhinski to ‘fight counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs’.
Australia: Second referendum again defeats conscription 1,181,747 vs 1,015,159 votes; 1918 recruiting falls to c.2,500 per month.
Australia holds a referendum on whether to institute conscription. The “no” vote wins 53.79%. A “no” campaign poster: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...448418403475457
United States: (listed for yesterday): U.S Federal Food Administration set Wednesday as a “Wheat-less Day,” but it is largely a failure as it is not enforced, with bakeries and restaurants freely serving bread, pastries, and other wheat products.
Tentative German peace terms in Washington.
M.J. Cambon, adviser for U.S. affairs in Paris.

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Western Front
Alsace: Stiff fighting at Harmannsweilerkopf.
British troops struggling to push up a horse-drawn cart up a snow-covered road in Hesdin, France: © IWM (Q 8351): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...508815839760384
British soldier kissing a French woman while holding up a sprig of mistletoe: © IWM (Q 8354): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...569225150615552

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians recapture whole of M. Asolone.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Battle of Jaffa (until December 22): 54th (East Anglian) Division crosses the Yarkon River in darkness. The attack completely surprised the Ottoman defenders, and all Ottoman resistance was overcome by British troops using their bayonets and no shots were fired. and their front line were forced back 5 miles (8.0 km). By dawn the British held a line from Hadrah to Tel el Rekkeit, around 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the river.

Political, etc
Germany: Special offer in Germany to send gifts for Christmas 1917 to the front: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-feld.jpg?ssl=1
Russia: Vladimir Antonov, People’s Commissar for War, made C-in-C ‘for the struggle with counter-revolution’.
France: Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist who won the Tour de France twice, is killed when the French army truck he was driving crashes into a cart: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...539030905573376
United Kingdom: British Government issue Order in Council instituting the Air Council (see November 29th, 1917, and January 3rd, 1918).
Mr. Lloyd George appeals for increase of agricultural cultivation. Local rationing schemes authorized. Munitions Ministry empowered to restrict lighting.
Italy: Italian war industry establishments number 3,500 as against 125 in 1915.
United States: A train wreck occurs in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, resulting in 49 deaths: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...624609517178880

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Western Front
Several Gothas thwarted in raid on southeast England by bad weather (1 Gotha emergency lands south of Margate, burnt by crew), 3 Giants (1 diverts to Boulogne) merely drop bombs in sea off Kent.
Germans drive in British advanced posts on Ypres-Staden railway.
The town of Ypres, its houses ruined and deserted, pitted by huge water filled shell craters: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ypres.jpg?ssl=1
Lieut.-General Sir R. C. Maxwell, Quartermaster-General, B.E.F., France, resigns (see 23rd, and January 27th, 1915); succeeded by Lieutenant-General Sir T Clarke.
General Marie-Eugène Debeney in command of French First Army for duration of war.
British soldiers guarding German prisoners as they clear a road of snow: © IWM (Q 11553): British soldiers guarding German prisoners as they clear a road of snow: © IWM (Q 11553)

Eastern Front
Peace negotiations between Russian Bolshevik Government and Bulgaria, Central Powers and Turkey opened at Brest-Litovsk (see 15th, and January 5th, 1918).
Romanian troops occupy Bessarabia. Independent Moldavian Republic proclaimed there on December 23.
Bolshevik Red Guard forces in the Ukraine occupy the city of Kharkov.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Austro-Hungarian massed attack carries hills near Valstagna.
General Adolphe Guillaumat appointed Allied Commander-in-Chief at Salonika (see 14th, and June 6th, 1918). He reads Milne his instructions on December 30 to protect Greece, then use her army in offensive.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Battle of Jaffa (until December 22): Battle of Jaffa ends. British advance north and east of Jaffa.
Arabs under Sheikh Feisul capture Turkish troop train on Hejaz railway.

Political, etc
Russia: Bolshevik peace proposals; Austrian Ottokar Czernin rejects most on December 25.
Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, says Russia will reject “offensive” German peace terms, declaring that, “We did not overthrow Czarism to kneel before the Kaiser.”
United Kingdom: Lord Rhondda's scheme for rationing by localities comes into force; main cause of queues removed.
Belgium: Flanders proclaimed independent.
United States: U.S. Army during the past two months has court-martialed over 100 American soldiers at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, for pro-German views and activities.
China: Chinese government at Harbin orders Russian Bolshevik headquarters in the city to disarm within 48 hours.

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Western Front
Cambrai: Skirmishing at Poelcapelle, near Epehy: German troops at Ypres launch a raid against half-mile line of British trenches and succeeds in capturing 30 prisoners.
Verdun: Skirmishing at Caurieres Wood.
British soldier with his pet dog on the Western Front: © IWM (Q 10597): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...268841110171648

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Franz Conrad’s final attempt to break through before winter snows, promises soldiers winter at Bassano in plains below and Christmas Mass in Venice. After hurricane shelling including gas (by 550 guns) Austrian Eleventh Army captures Col del Rosso (4183ft), Mt Melago and 3 other features in the Monte Buso Valley; after a 2-mile advance, they claim 9,000 PoWs until December 24.
Austrian 10.4cm Langrohrkanone on the Italian Front firing gas shells. The crew wears gas masks: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...anone.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Irish Channel: Armed boarding steamer H.M.S. Stephen Furness sunk by submarine; six officers and 95 men lost.
North Sea: 3 Harwich Force destroyers on Dutch convoy duty (Torrent, Surprise and Tornado) blunder into German minefield and sink north of Maas Light Buoy, 252 lives lost. Flotilla leader Valkyri gets home with broken back. Surviving destroyer Radiant rescues survivors.

Political, etc
Germany: The Kaiser, visiting Second Army on Western Front, says the events of 1917 are proof the Almighty is a German ally.
France: Former French Prime Minister Joseph Caillaux loses immunity after the Chamber of Deputies votes 417 to 2 to revoke it. Caillaux will now be tried for treason.
Anglo-French Paris Convention on spheres of influence in Southern Russia (British War Cabinet approve on December 26).
Belgium: Text of the declaration by the Council of Flanders, nominally supported by the German occupation of Belgium: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...253750692270086

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I'll call a halt to the war for just a minute while I wish you gekkogecko, a very Merry Christmas.

Ah, but we're up to 1917; the Christmas truce of 1914 was a great idea, but it didn't last.

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Western Front
Mannheim (on the Rhine river) heavily bombed by British airmen.
British seaplanes bomb Bruges Docks and other aerodromes.

Eastern Front
German forces not sent west or to Italy being massed on southern and Romanian fronts.
Ukraine: Battles at Tamarovka Station and Oboyan (West of Kharkov), Sievers’ Reds capture Lyubotin on December 25. Telegraph between Petrograd and south-west interrupted by Ukrainian authorities.
Austrians row with Bulgars at Brest-Litovsk.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians regain “much” of lost ground near the Brenta, specifically, Mt Melago and Col del Rosso save summit.
Snow severe on Italian front.
French raids in Albania.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British forces claim that since this year in Palestine, they have captured 91 artillery guns, 120 machine guns, 7000 rifles, and over 10 million rounds of ammo from the Ottomans.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Ottokar Czernin to Emperor Charles ‘Your Majesty must therefore get Poland in order to maintain parity’ (with Germany).
Germany: German government announces it has raised 12.6 billion marks ($2.9 billion) in its 7th war loan.
Russia: Ivan Goremykin, former Prime Minister of Russia, is killed, along with his family members, in a robbery at his dacha in Sochi: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...964668321402883
United Kingdom: Sir John Jellicoe resigns as First Sea Lord at Eric Geddes’ “request” (made public on December 26). Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss succeeds, Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle replaces Henry Oliver as DCNS; Reginald Bacon recalled from Dover Patrol on December 28.
Meeting of British Naval Officers. Left foreground standing on the left Beatty of the Grand Fleet, and far right Jellicoe, who was C-in-C at Jutland: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ers-1.jpg?ssl=1
Canada: Starting today, Canada prohibits the importation of alcohol of more than 2.5%. Prohibition of liquor will follow in 1918.
Belgium: King Albert replies to Papal peace note.
Switzerland: Swiss cavalrymen patrolling the frontier, with the country surrounded by nations at war (except Lichtenstein): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...904275502747648
Korea: Kim Jong-suk (future wife of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and mother to Kim Jong-il) is born in the Japanese colony of Korea.

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Western Front
“Christmas with the Corpsmen,” by Carl Simon, depicting German corpsmen: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...025065682337794

Eastern Front
Ukraine: RNAS Armoured Car Squadron rear party disable remaining cars and guns after ugly confrontation with local Reds.
Ukrainian People’s Republic of Soviets is proclaimed in Bolshevik-occupied Kharkov. Most of Ukraine is controlled by the anti-Bolshevik Rada.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Heavy fighting continues on Asiago plateau for passage of Brenta river. Toscana Brigade and 5th Bersaglieri regiment etc stiffen Italian line and repulse final Austrian attack.
Soldiers and Italian civilians gather around a crash site of an Austro-Hungarian aeroplane: © IWM (Q 26545): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...979782525177857

Naval and Overseas Operations
Irish Sea: Royal Navy sloop Buttercup and PC56 (convoy escorts) ram and sink U-87 with all 44 crew. Twice-victorious Q-ship Penshurst sunk by U-boat.
Mozambique: British pursue Germans 40 miles south of River Rovuma; latter broken up. KAR (King’s African Rifles) Native troops follow Lettow-Vorbeck’s troops into Portuguese East Africa: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...frika.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Count Ottokar Czernin replies to Russian peace proposals of 22 December.
France: French Premier Georges Clemenceau says age limits for commanders are too high, and instead urges that more younger soldiers with experience at the front be promoted.

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Western Front
German artillery activity near Vimy and east of Ypres.
Verdun: Germans “repulsed” in Caurieres Wood
Outskirts of Lens, France on Christmas Day: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...382412103639040

Eastern Front
Bolsheviks break off Brest-Litovsk talks when Germans say Poland and Baltic States will become independent.
Prince Leopold (on the right), Commander-in-Chief of the German Army on the Eastern Front, at a Christmas celebration: © IWM (Q 52229): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...335854112833536

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave: A report that this battle ends, in the form of: Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, aka the Battle of Caporetto ends.
Big aerial fight 18 miles north of Venice; an English pilot, William Barker and two others made an unauthorized flight, raided a German airfield at Motta on the 25th, ignoring an unspoken truce. They also dropped a sign reading: “To the Austrian Flying Corps from the English RFC – wishing you a merry Xmas.” This provoked a retaliatory raid by Austro-German bombers and fighters on Istrana airfield, as recorded in the diary of the Italian ace, Silvio Scaroni. Also a brief mention here: https://books.google.com/books?id=T...Istrana&f=false
Raids repeated nights December 29-30 and 30-31.
An Austro-Hungarian Brandenburg D-I before take-off, built by the Phoenix Works in Vienna: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...rg-DI.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: During a revolt against the British-established “protectorate”, 502 King’s African Rifles and levies disperse Aulyehan at Hagagabli, capture 1,233 camels. By February 20, 1918 fines, 402 rifles and chiefs collected excluding the leader.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British defense of Jerusalem begins. Sharp fighting during night; British picketts attacked.

Political, etc
Russia: Ukraine tells Berlin she wants separate status at Brest-Litovsk peace talks.
United Kingdom: Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s resignation as First Sea Lord is announced.
Mr. McAdoo appointed Director of Railways.
United States: U.S. Shipping Board promises five million tons in 1918.
Mexican raiders cross the U.S. border and attack a ranch in Presidio County, Texas, killing three people. They are pursued by U.S. Army cavalry back across the border. It is uncertain if the raiders were the Constitutionalist Venustiano Carranza's, or if they belonged under Pancho Villa’s command.
Guatemala: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits Guatemala, killing hundreds. Damage done to Guatemala City Cathedral: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...524596048097280

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Looks like the war took a holiday.

Western Front
The snow-covered ruins of Ypres: © IWM (Q 9806): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...068184079138816
Verdun: More German “attacks” around the Verdun are repulsed by French defenders, although 100 French prisoners are taken.

Eastern Front
Bolsheviks’ inducements to the Ukraine for them to join in the fight against Cossacks.

Southern Front
(listed for yesterday): British soldiers inspecting a shot down German biplane near Istrana aerodrome in Italy. © IWM (Q 26549): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...715988452044800

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turko-Germans attempt to recapture Jerusalem. Deciphered radio message warns Allenby and Chetwode before December 24; British 60th Division repels eight Turkish attacks; 10th and 74th Divisions capture Zeitun Ridge and village in 4,000 yards advance. Turkish counterattack towards Jerusalem fails 3 miles north astride Nablus road despite fresh 1st Division. 33,000 British troops and 180 guns subsequently advance up to 6 miles against strong but flagging resistance by 20,000 Turks and c.100 guns (December 28-30).
Turkish troops at Jerusalem: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...salem.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Germany: Second conference between Erich Ludendorff and army group staff chiefs on 1918 offensive in the West. General Oskar von Hutier, from Eastern Front, takes over new Eighteenth Army at St Quentin.
Russia: Riga Council declares Latvian independence from Russia and requests Kaiser’s protection.
Bolsheviks issues a decree ordering a nationalization of Russian banks, including foreign-owned banks in the country.
United Kingdom: Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss’ appointment as First Sea Lord, Great Britain, is announced.
Romania: George Diamandy, Romanian writer and politician known for pioneering revolutionary socialism in France and Romania, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...037995265777664
United States: Sir F.E. Smith emphasizes British solidarity in New York.
The nationalization of most U.S. railroads, law passed 6 December, 1917, now takes effect. The ostensible reason is in order to facilitate the transport of troops and materials needed for the war effort.
Mexico: (listed for yesterday): In response to the Mexican bandit raid yesterday, U.S. Army cavalry cross into Mexican territory and kill 10 of the raiders.

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Western Front
Much activity on both sides north of St. Quentin.
Royal Flying Corps ace McCudden, who had scored 4 kills on December 23, shoots down 3 LVGs in 20 minutes.
Major James Thomas Byford McCudden received his commission on January 1, 1917 flying S.E.5s. As a fighter he was instinctively a loner, preferring to stalk his prey so as to attack unseen from close range: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...udden.jpg?ssl=1
A British soldier and a carrier pigeon named “Dreadnaught.” © IWM (Q 11954): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...099643791708161

Southern Front
Austro-Hungarian bridges at Zenson bend (lower Piave) destroyed.
Austro-Hungarians bomb Padua, 13 killed, 60 injured; also bomb Treviso, Bassano, Vicenza and Castelfranco (December 31).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turkish forces driven back north of Jerusalem; Ramah and Bertunia captured.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Arthur Arz, Chief of the General Staff replies to Ludendorff (from December 23), agrees his Western Front 1918 spring offensive will be decisive and Austrian troops will be sent, once no longer needed in Russia.
Russia: Lenin attends Demobilization Congress which votes for Army’s dissolution; he requests ‘revolutionary units’ to hold front line.
France: French Foreign Minister in speech outlines French War Aims (see January 5th, 1918).
United Kingdom: Labour memo on War Aims accepted in special Conference.
Portugal: Dr. da Silva Paes appointed Acting President of Portugal (see December 11th, 1917, and May 9th, 1918).

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Western Front
Local German attacks south of St. Quentin and near Ypres-Staden railway.
Heavy snows continue to hamper any major infantry operations on the Western front.
British anti-aircraft gun in action on the Western Front: © IWM (Q 8363): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...341230870515712
British Captain with his pet dog: © IWM (Q 8345): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...446932595134464

Eastern Front
Ukraine: Red Guards capture Lozoyova and Pavlograd on Kharkov-Crimea railway, occupy Kharkov on December 31.

Southern Front
Local German attacks south of St. Quentin and near Ypres-Staden railway.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British troops advance another 13 miles near Jerusalem, adding on to their gains from yesterday.

Political, etc
Russia: German Naval Mission under Admiral Graf von Kaiserling arrives at Petrograd.
Old Russian Army ranks abolished; decision in principle to organize new Red Army.
France: French Chamber of Deputies adopts a resolution prohibiting the manufacture of gin.
United Kingdom: National Labour Convention demands general rationing. Churchill letter ‘I am strongly pressing that the cavalry should be put by regiments into the Tanks’.
Charles Masterman of War Propaganda Bureau ‘As a result of the double propaganda, 19 countries have declared war against Germany and 10 have broken off relationships with her’.
United States: Efforts of U.S. Shipping Board bent on steel ships.
Disgraced women and slain children behind them, medals for murder and destruction on the breat and the chunky boots set on a US flag – that’s how the propaganda sees the ‘bestial Germans’: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...scher.jpg?ssl=1
US Generals slam the War Department for the shortage of arms, as soldiers are training without guns.
Cold weather and a coal shortages cause two riots in break out in New York City.
Finland: Finnish Republic asks for recognition.
Netherlands: First batch of British prisoners arrives in Holland for internment.

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