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Old 01-19-2018, 10:23 AM
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Western Front
Raids and counter raids in Cambrai sector.
British soldiers stacking captured German helmets for disposal at Metz: © IWM (Q 8444):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...956424547266560
Royal Field Artillery horses sheltered near a destroyed church in Ytres, France: © IWM (Q 8446): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...062126049619968
Squadron of British F.E.2b night bombers at Aire Aerodrome in France: © IWM (Q 11958): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...357806030782464

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British troops in Palestine advanced one mile on a four-mile front north of Jerusalem, taking Ottoman prisoners.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Hungary: 86th Infantry Regiment mutinies at Szabadka, 2 other regiments likewise (February 11 and 14).
Hungarian War Loan appeal: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...leihe.jpg?ssl=1
Germany: All passenger railroad traffic in Germany is reduced by 60 percent in order to free up capacity for the transport of soldiers and war-related materials.
Russia: Constituent Assembly forcibly dissolved by Bolsheviks.
United Kingdom: In Britain, it is announced that compulsory rationing will go into effect on February 25th.
Turkey: Mustaufi ul Mamalek succeeds Ain ed Douleh as Persian Prime Minister (see November 24th, 1917 and May 3rd, 1918).
Mushaver ul Mamalek succeeds Ala es Sultaneh as Persian Foreign Minister (see June 6th, 1917, and August 10th, 1918).
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