Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Private Thomas Alfred Jones is awarded the Victoria Cross today for capturing 102 Germans during the Battle of Morval.
Battle of Verdun: At Verdun, the Germans have made 9 counterattacks over the past two days to reverse French advances, but are driven off.

Eastern Front
Romania: Tirgu Jiu: Rumanian First Army routs lone 11th Bavarian Division (2,000 PoWs and 4 guns captured), pursues until November 2).
German and Austro-Hungarian troops begin their invasion of the Oltenia region in Romania.
British and French aircraft reach Bucharest.

Naval and Overseas Operations
First German destroyer raid in Dover Straits (night 26th/27th) (see April 20th, 1917). 11 German destroyers (Captain Michelsen) from Zeebrugge raid in Dover Straits (night October 26-27). 24 German ships transferred from High Seas Fleet (October 23) to aid U-boat passage of the Straits. 7 net barrage drifters and 2 destroyers sunk for no loss despite Dover Patrol‘s 18 alerted destroyers (6 ‘Tribals’ from Dover briefly engage). British destroyer Zulu mined, sister ship Nubian torpedoed (Nubian undamaged bow section and Zulu stern section salvaged and mated to create unique HMS Zubian; she sinks UC-50 (February 4, 1918). Von Bethmann-Hollweg informs German High command question of unrestricted U-boat warfare exclusively Kaiser’s concern as C-in-C.

Political, etc.
Germany: Von Bethmann-Hollweg visits Pless and opposes military age extension to 60; Groener promoted Lieutenant General to head new War Munitions Office (created November 1).
United Kingdom: £60m New York loan announced. Rumania Flag Day.
United States: Wilson tells Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce ‘I believe that the business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched’. Further, “This present war is the last war of this or any kind involving the world that the United States can keep out of.”
New York City police raid the first birth control in the U.S., jailing its founder Margaret Sanger and her assistant.
Norway: Relations between Norway and Germany sour, after more than 20 Norwegian ships were sunk by U-boats in the past few days.
Greece: Under pressure from the Allies, the Greek government agrees to reduce its mobilized army from 60,000 to 35,000 men.

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