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17 October 1917

Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres
: Continued lack of activity today, due to continued heavy rains.
British soldiers pulling a 18-pounder gun through the mud near Langemarck during the 3rd Battle of Ypres: © IWM (Q 3007): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...922629741629440
Verdun: Germans enter French trenches at Hill 344.
Great artillery activity north-east of Soissons.
Germany: Eight DH4s of No 55 Squadron (41st Wing) RFC bomb Burbach works, near Saarbruecken (and on October 25), works and houses damaged (14 casualties).

Eastern Front
Operation Albion
: German attempt to land on Dago Island supported by naval guns is repulsed.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: Operation Albion
: Naval engagements Gulf of Riga.
The Russian battleship Grashdanin was launched 1901 with only 13.210 tons and four 12-inch guns as main armament, while the sunken
Slava was from 1903 with 15,000 tons with the same armament: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...danin.jpg?ssl=1
East Africa: Battle of Nyangao and Mahiwa: O’Grady’s Linforce a mile from Nigerian Brigade as both sides retreat after ferocious, confused, close-quarter fighting. British lose 2,348 casualties (528 Nigerians), 1 gun and 9 MGs plus over 352 carriers. Lettow loses 519 men and abandons Königsberg gun. British claim 918 PoWs alone from October 15-18.
German cruiser-minelayers Bremse and Brummer surprise and destroy British-escorted Bergen-Lerwick-Britain convoy in North Sea and sink British destroyers Strongbow and Mary Rose (see December 12th), and nine merchantmen; 135 lost. No radio warning got off, 30 Royal Navy cruisers and 54 destroyers at sea, but powerless.
U.S. transport Antilles torpedoed: 67 lost.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turkish air reconnaissance finds no Cyprus preparations for British landing in Gulf of Alexandretta.

Political, etc
Russia
: Government prepares to move to Moscow from Petrograd.
Australia: Australian trans-continental railway joined up.
Turkey: Kaiser Wilhelm is made an honorary Marshal of the Ottoman Army in Constantinople: © IWM (Q 23735): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...998628516601856
United States: U.S. government begins censoring foreign newspapers that do not get a special license. [Note: again, not the full story. German-language newspapers mostly folded, due to deliberate bureaucratic delays which prevented them from getting the “special” license.
Veterans of the Siege of Vicksburg from both the Union and Confederacy meet together in Vicksburg, Mississippi: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...968432455426051
Netherlands: Holland replies to British Note re: transport of gravel and sand.
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