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:
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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:
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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):
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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.