Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Franco-British advance on 2.5-mile front between Poelcapelle and Houthulst Forest, southern end of Forest captured, 200 prisoners, but attackers are hampered by mud and rain.
Two Sopwith Camel fighters of No 45 Squadron strafe & temporarily scatter 2 German battalions on Staden-Houthulst road.
Eastern Front
Operation Albion: On the night 21-22 October Germans retire on wide front between Riga Bay and River Dvina.
Southern Front
Dolom: Italians repulse strong Austro-German attack on Cadore front.
Isonzo: German Fourteenth Army now in start positions. Tapped telephone warns Italians of artillery barrage from 0200 hours on October 24.
Italian deserters crossing no-man’s land toward Austro-Hungarian and German lines near Tolmin (Slovenia): © IWM (Q 61007):
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Officers and NCOs of an Austrian ‘Sturmpatrouille’, witing to strike on the Italian Front:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Falkenhayn orders Turkish XVIII Corps (4000-6000 soldiers) south from Tikrit west of Tigris but soon retreats before General Cobbe on October 23, whom Maude orders on October 28 to attack Turkish position 12 miles south of Tikrit.
Political, etc
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm returns to Berlin for his wife Augusta Victoria’s birthday and to meet with the Chancellor.
Russia: Petrograd Soviet hold stormy meeting; Trotsky demands peace; accuses Kerenski of treason; defense of Petrograd arranged.
United States: U.S. begins appropriation of raw material for war purchased and stored by Germans in U.S. during first two years of war.
US War Department estimates 38 million men are armed in the war, 27.5 million of them on the Allies side.
“The Adventurer,” starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin, is released:
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