Western Front
British troops announce they captured 6,982 German troops at the Somme in the last six days of battle.
Eastern Front
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: Falkenhayn‘s Group Kuehnereaches Filiasi road net 40 miles southeast of Tirgu Jiu; Captain Picht’s motorized battalion diverted west from Filiasi to open Iron Gates and railway from behind.
German and Austro-Hungarian troops force their way through the Jiul and Ait valley passes and enter the Wallachian plains of Romania.
Southern Front
Serbia: Monastir (Serbia) captured by Allied forces (see October 5th, 1916 and December 2nd, 1915). Serb and French cavalry ride in 4 years to the day since Serbs captured town from Turks in First Balkan War, 1912. Sarrail thanks all nations and claims first French victory since the Marne. Fighting to north of Monastir on November 22. Russian troops entering the city of Monastir (Bitola), Macedonia:
http://imgur.com/y5b5Eft* © IWM (Q 32857)
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Egypt: British raid and take Farafra Oasis (180 miles west of Assiut).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: Russian armored cruiser
Rurik mined badly in bows, but operational again early 1917.
Political, etc.
Germany: German war minister says that fathers of several children, when possible, would not be sent to the frontlines.
United Kingdom: Crowded canteen for workers at the National Shell filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire:
http://imgur.com/QIzRJCB
United States: Wilson peace note to combatants.
President Wilson promises delegates of the American Federation of Labor that he will “close rifts” between the classes.
Ruth Law breaks the cross-America flight record by flying 590 miles non-stop between Chicago & New York state:
http://imgur.com/HDopoat
Greece: Entente Governments demand dismissal of Ministers of Central Powers at Athens and surrender of Greek military material (see December 1st).