Western Front
Lieutenant-General E W von Hoeppner appointed C-in-C Air Force;
Kommandierender General der Luftstreitkräfte (Kogenluft). Chief of Staff is Colonel Thomsen, previously
Feldflugchef.
French gunners dragging a 155 mm artillery up a steep slope in Seine-et-Oise:
http://imgur.com/p4V6Can* © IWM (Q 78089)
British seaplanes bombard Zeebrugge and Ostend.
Battle of the Somme: German counter-attack north of Chaulnes.
Eastern Front
Russia: Brusilov says
‘Rumania is a difficult ally’. His Southwest Front has only 412 heavy guns (over 122mm).
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: Romanian retreat continued; Falkenhayn brings heavy guns through Toerzburg Pass and captures Tirgu Jiu. He is now 20-25 miles inside Rumania.
Southern Front
Serbia: Advance on Monastir: French and Serbs capture monastery of Jaratok; French and Russians at River Viro (four miles south of Monastir).
Asiatic and Egyptian
Egypt: British advance into Sinai begins.
Persia: Tunnel through Taurus range on Baghdad railway pierced.
Third Affair of Hafiz Kor (North-West Frontier of India).
Political, etc.
Germany: 1918 conscript class, all under 19 year, begins to join for training; malnutrition a problem.
United Kingdom: Appointment of Food Controller and control of bread foreshadowed.
France: CHANTILLY CONFERENCE: (Joffre presiding) Allies discuss (a) 1917 offensives on Western, Eastern and Southern fronts to be timed from first fortnight of February 1917 to cause maximum dispersal of German forces; (b) the relations between Governments and Staffs; (c) Greece; (d) Poland. (Conference continued on 16th.)
Russia: Grand Duke Nicholas warns Tsar of Tsarina and Rasputin’s harmful influence.
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Poland: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, passed away:
http://imgur.com/GEH0kXX
United States: Standard Oil Company of California institutes an 8-hour workday for its workers for “humanitarian” reasons.