One Year Remaining in the Great War: One Year Remaining
Western Front
Concentrated shelling of Ypres and Passchendaele salient by Germans, followed by infantry raid; repulsed by British.
Successful Belgian raid south-east of Nieuport.
German raids near Reims repulsed; they bomb Calais.
French ground crew loading a bomb on a Farman HF.20 aircraft: © IWM (Q 113742): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...439884993056769

Eastern Front
12,000 Bolsheviks (esp sailors) halt Kerensky’s 700 Cossacks and 1 armored train near Pulkovo Observatory; they retreat to Gatchina. Kerensky narrowly escapes.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Great efforts by Austrians to force the Piave lines guarding Venice; they cross main stream at Zenson and Grisolera; further north they occupy islands in the river. Overall, Italian forces hold off Austro-Hungarian and German forces on the Piave River, as heavy artillery fire is exchanged.
3 French divisions move from Brescia to Vicenza nearer front, 46th and 47th Divisons of Chasseurs d’Alpin arrive (since November 5).
Royal Flyinig Corps Nos 28 (Sopwith Camel) and 34 (RE8) Squadrons reach Milan (plus No 14, left France on November 7, No 66 Squadron follows on November 17), No 42 Squadron leaves November 26-27, No 45 on December 11-12). They become operational between November 28 and December 21.

Naval and Overseas Operations
The M.15, the monitor sunk yesterday by UC-38: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...409700675899392

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Falkenhayn drives back Australian Mounted Divusion 4 miles with 5,000 Turks (10,000 rallied at Ramleh on November 10). British troops drive Turks from Wadi Sugheir; take many prisoners and guns. Turks seek refuge behind Wadi Surar, eight miles south of Jaffa.
Dismounted Australian mounted infantrymen open fire on Turk troops during the fighting in Palestine: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...stina.jpg?ssl=1
Hejaz Railway: Lawrence mines troop train at Minifer, captures 60 rifles.
Australian Imperial Force light horse and horse artillery advancing on the Philistine Plain, Palestine: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...741870384799745

Political, etc
Russia: Fighting in Moscow and Petrograd between Bolsheviks and followers of Kerenski.
United Kingdom: M. Eleftherios Venizelos arrives in London.

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More really great photos from a long ago time.

And today, we get a really helpful map! (Check the Southern Front section)
Western Front
Germans bomb Calais (earlier raids on October 20, 21 and 24).

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): German and Austro-Hungarian forces cross the Piave River 23 miles from Venice. Austrian 1st Mountain Brigade enters Primolano, Brenta valley, takes Mt Tonderica on November 15. Italians forced off Gallio heights but hold Mt Sisemol.
Map showing the extent of Italy’s retreat in the ongoing Austro-Hungarian and German offensive: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...085395840237568
Italy: General Herbert Plumer arrives at Mantua to take over as British C-in-C (appointment November 10) 423 Italian battalions (33 divisions) with 3,500 guns vs 736 Austro-German battalions (55 divisions) and 4,500 guns.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Action of El Mughar. Allenby attacks towards Junction Station of Jerusalem railway with 25,000 men and 136 guns against 9000 Turks with c.60 guns. 800 Yeomanry (130 casualties) charge and storm EI Mughar Ridge and village, take over 1,000 PoWs, 2 guns and 14 Mgs.
British officers examine an abandoned Turkish field gun in Palestine: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...stina.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Russia: Kerenski's forces defeated by Bolsheviki near Petrograd (see 8th and 15th).
Lenin appeals to Party to seize whole country. Reds control Smolensk after defeating Cossacks and also capture Tashkent on November 14.
France: Paul Painlevé Ministry defeated 186-279 on vote of confidence in Chamber, resigns on November 14.
United Kingdom: Russians in London repudiate Leninists.
Trevelyan Thomson reassures War Cabinet no German link with pacifists, boredom main motivation.
Serbia: Entente legation to the US reports that up to a quarter of the Serbian population may have died due to combat, disease, and starvation during the war.
United States: President Wilson: “What I am opposed to is not the feeling of pacifists, but their stupidity.”

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Western Front
Flanders: British consolidate northwest of Passchendaele. German attacks north of Menin Road and northeast of Passchendaele on November 15. Relief of Canadian Corps begins until November 20; after 15,654 battle casualties since c. October 18.
Artillery active in French sector.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Franz Conrad and Alfred Krauss’ Austrians armies link up at Fonzaso.
Column of Italian soldiers who had been captured during the Battle of Caporetto: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ngene.jpg?ssl=1
Salonika: British begin 50-mile Stavros light railway, with 4,000 Turkish PoWs in batches from Cyprus, to replace uncertain shipping service from Salonika (completed May 1918).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: General Allenby continues advance in Palestine; Jerusalem railway reached.

Political, etc
Russia: Civil strife and much confusion in Petrograd, following the defeat of Kerenski. Kerensky’s troops change sides, but he escapes disguised as sailor, hides in forest cottage near Luga for 40 days.
France: M. Jean-Louis Barthou, French Foreign Minister, resigns (see 13th and October 23rd). French Premier Paul Painlevé: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...130680431902720
United Kingdom: In House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George explains Allied War Council.
United States: James W. Gerard, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, urges, “We should ‘hog-tie’ every disloyal German-American…hang every traitor to a lamppost…”

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Western Front
Flanders: German “attacks” north of Menin road and north-east of Passchendaele repulsed.
Canadian stretcher-bearers carrying a wounded man near Passchendaele: © IWM (CO 2202): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...402467229196288
US Army Engineer Corps testing a dazzle camouflage suit: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...509421930786822
In the past 16 months, Britain claims to have captured 131,731 prisoners of war, (on all fronts), along with 705 artillery guns.

Eastern Front
Southern Russia: Mikhail Alexeiev arrives at Don Cossack capital Novocherkask, but Alexei Kaledin says Cossacks unwilling to fight so he moves to Kuban Cossack capital Ekaterinodar.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): German 117th Division gets 4 battalions across near Ponte di Piave (night November 15-16) but wiped out by 3 Italian brigades who take 600 PoWs (until November 16); first Italian success since Caporetto. Italians give ground both sides of the Brenta; von Below and Boroevic cease crossing attempts, although 41st Hungarian Division crosses river delta and captures Cava Zuccherina, 16 miles of lagoon from Venice.
On Lower Piave resistance maintained. Allied reinforcements arrive daily.
Town of Castello Tesino, Italy after its capture by the Austro-Hungarian offensive: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...462860643356672
Italian troops carrying supplies up the Alps in the battle to hold against the Austro-Hungarian and German offensive: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...826520867885059

Naval and Overseas Operations
Japanese Government unable to comply with request of British Government that two Japanese battlecruisers should join the Grand Fleet in the North Sea (see February 8th, 1916, and April 17th, 1917).
East Africa: Further actions on Makonde Plateau. Germans and allies driven from Chivata; make for Portuguese territory.
George Giffard’s 1/2nd KAR takes Chiwata with 606 PoWs and liberate 67 British PoWs after Paul von Lettow’s evacuation.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: General Edmund Allenby advances to within three miles of Jaffa. Anzac Mounted Division occupies Ramleh and Ludd. Yeomanry charge against Turkish rearguard at entry to Judean Hills. Since 31 October over 9,000 prisoners taken.
Turkish cavalrymen retreat through Palestine pursued by British troops: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...stina.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Germany: German Socialists urge Germany to seek peace with the Bolshevik government in Petrograd.
Russia: Georgian Nobility declares its property national.
Bolsheviks in power in Petrograd. Bitter fighting in Moscow, by counter-revolutionaries kills over 4,000.
After several days of street fighting, Moscow falls to the Bolsheviks: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...766107857903617
Bolsheviks issue the “Declaration of the Rights of Peoples of Russia,” promising equal rights, self-determination of minorities, and abolishment of state and religious privileges and restrictions: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Decl...les_of_Russi a
France: M. Georges Clemenceau accepts office and forms a new Minsstry. Himself Prime Minister and Minister of War, M. Stephen Pichon Foreign Minister.
Georges Clemenceau agrees to become the new Prime Minister of France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...796322122280960
United Kingdom: British Premier Lloyd George makes public the plans for a Supreme War Council of the Allies to coordinate the militaries of Britain, France, and Italy. British Government give further pledge in house of Commons that restitution of Alsace-Lorraine is a War Aim (see February 15th).
United States: 33 of the arrested “Silent Sentinels,” women suffragists who had been protesting at the White House, are brutally beaten and tortured by prison guards in a “Night of Terror”: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...569807371620352

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Western Front
Flanders: Intense fighting round Passchendaele. Good air work by Allies behind battle front.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Strong Austro-German onslaughts on whole Italian front. Italians give ground between Brenta and Piave, are driven from Mt. Prassolan, and retreat to Mt. Grappa. They hold on Lower Piave.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy K1 steam submarine has to be sunk after colliding with K4 in Grand Fleet sweep.
Adriatic: 2 old Austrian battleships and 14 torpedo boats shell Italian Cortellazzo coast guns near Piave mouth. Italian 15-inch gun monitor Alfredo Cappellini wrecked off Ancona.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Jaffa taken by NZ Mounted Brigade; Australian Mounted Division takes Latrun. Turkish Eighth Army retires behind river Auja to north.
A patrol of German lancers in Palestine: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...stina.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
France: M. Charles-Célestin Jonnart succeeds M. Albert Métin as French Minister for Blockade [First Minister: formerly Blockade was under an Under-Secretary.] (see 23rd and August 17th).
Clemenceau appoints Georges Leygues Marine Minister for duration of war.
United Kingdom: Lord Weetman Cowdray resigns Chairmanship of Air Board. Harold Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere, succeeds on November 26.
M. Elftherios Venizelos welcomed at Mansion House.
United States: Enemy alien registration required, 600,000 affected, expelled from Washington and barred from military places (over 200,000 investigated).
Brazil: War law especially against domestic German interests. State of siege in capital and six states, c.700 aliens (mainly German reservists) arrested.
Sweden: Bolshevik Vorovski in Stockholm telegrams Berlin ‘Please fulfill your promise immediately’ (ie more funds for peace talks).

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Western Front
British salient widened on Passchendaele ridge.
Successful raid south of River Scarpe.
Surprise attacks by French south-east of St. Quentin and in Champagne.

Eastern Front
Wounded soldiers from various Central Powers nations at a Hungarian hospital: © IWM (Q 54221): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...529930629935104

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Fierce mountain fighting: Germans take Quero and Monte Cornella. The Italians flood parts of the Piave valley to hold off the offensive.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Second Battle of Heligoland Bight: Vice-Admiral T Napier’s battlecruisers Glorious, Courageous and Repulse, 8 cruisers and 10 destroyers chase 4 German light cruisers, which were covering and smokescreening minesweepers, for 2 hours and firing 147 15-inch shells until battleships Kaiser and Kaiserin appear and dense fog intervenes. Germans suffer 7 hits, Admiral Reuter’s flagship cruiser Königsberg (31 casualties) hit by Repulse; Pillau hit by Courageous. Royal Navy ships suffer 5 hits including cruisers Caledon and Calypso hit (Captain H L Edwards killed). A claim that one German mine-sweeper is sunk, but I can’t verify that. It might refer to the German torpedo boat A-50, which struck a mine and sank this day.
East Atlantic: First US Navy U-boat kill: convoy escort destroyers Fanning and Nicholson sink U-58 off Milford Haven.
East Africa: British troops pursue Germans and occupy Lutshemi. KAR and Nigerians troops (last 38 casualties) win fight at Lutshemi despite 2 disabled guns. Lettow at Newala picks his force to invade Portuguese East Africa.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: New Zealand Mounted Rifles capture the port of Jaffa and the nearby town of Tel Aviv, Palestine. The Jewish residents had by expelled by the Ottomans in April. This leads to:
Battle of Nebi Samwil begins (see 24th): The battle was the first attempt by the forces of the British Empire to capture Jerusalem. The village of Nebi Samwil (now spelled Nabi Samwil), also known as the "Tomb of Samuel", was part of the Ottoman defenses in front of Jerusalem and its capture was considered vital to the eventual capture of the city. The British attacking force consisted of three divisions, two infantry and one mounted. Despite these losses in earlier defeats, the majority of the Ottoman armies had managed to withdraw relativity intact, but they had been split with no way for the 7th and 8th Armies to support one another if or when they were attacked. Further the Ottoman Seventh Army on the British right was cut off from the Palestinian rail network and all their supplies would have to be brought in by road.
The British Imperial Camel Corps marching into the recently captured city of Beersheba, Palestine: © IWM (Q 13157): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...469557843316737

Political, etc
Russia: Pro-Soviet Captain Modest V Ivanov made assistant Navy Minister. Lenin saw him on November 14. Supreme Naval Board formed on November 20.
Five Pro-Socialist Cooperation Bolshevik leaders leave Central committee after Lenin speech. Trotsky takes over empty Foreign Ministry. Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad) goes Bolshevik.
United Kingdom: Children cheer as King George V visit the dockyards at Greenock: © IWM (Q 54484): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...127240682868736
United States: Film The Zeppelin’s Last Raid showing.
President Wilson and the Cabinet approves plan to force German males over the age of 14 residing in the US to register with the government.
China: Chinese Premier Duan Qirui (pictured) resigns due to disagreements within the Peking government on how to deal with Sun Yat-sen’s rebel government in the south: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...182622016929793

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Interesting the section on the Battle of Nebi Samwil. You know, each theatre of the war could almost be a lifetime study on it's own. Interesting ... very interesting. Thanks!

Today includes a note that might interest PF (see Political, etc, for France)
Western Front
Artillery very active on both sides; German raids north-west of St. Quentin.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians driven from fortified positions on Mt. Tomba, but offer strong resistance. 1100 Italians are taken prisoner. Alfred Krauss’ Austrian troops and German Jaeger Division attack Mt Grappa sector until November 22 between rivers Brenta and Piave, take 1,286 PoWs.
Austro-Hungarians attack in southern Albania and attempt to cross River Voyusa, 12 miles north of Valona, attack Italians on November 22 and force river Osum on night November 25-26.
An Italian 30.5 cm gun with a unique (and comparatively primitive) gun carriage captured by the Austro-Hungarians: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...560238918103045

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: British Q-ship sloop Candytuft sunk in Mediterranean by SM U-39, 9 killed.
Baltic: UC-57 strikes a mine in the Gulf of Finland and sinks.
North Sea: British P57 rams and sinks UC-47 with all hands (sank 52 ships worth 65,884t in 1917) off Flamborough Head.
East Africa: A force of 262 Germans and 700 Askaris surrdeners to British, 18 miles south-east of Chivata.
The German crew of U-58 surrendering, in yesterday’s action: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...620527281713152

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia, dies at Baghdad of cholera (see August 28th, 1916): succeeded by Lieut.-General Sir William Raine Marshall.
Burial of General Sir Frederick Maude at Baghdad: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Maude.jpg?ssl=1
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...908633666969600
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): Allenby resumes operations against Jerusalem with 14,500 men and 18 guns vs c.5,900 Turks with 50 guns. British enter Judean Hills as winter rains begin on November 19. Falkenhayn moves headquarter from Jerusalem to Nablus.

Political, etc
Russia: Petrograd completely held by Bolsheviks. Rumours current that Russia will shortly withdraw from war.
France: Auguste Rodin, French sculptor known for works such as “The Thinker,” passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...590380725907456
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...590380725907456
United Kingdom: John Jellicoe memo to War Cabinet ‘… our naval policy is necessarily governed by the adequacy of our destroyer forces’.

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Western Front
Hostile raids repulsed by British.
French success at Chaume Wood.
Cambrai: British Tank Corps, moved up by train, begins to move to start line (night November 19-20).
British tanks loaded on trains on their way to Cambrai: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...mbrai.jpg?ssl=1
Lorraine: Captain George Patton joins US Tank Corps.

Eastern Front
Western Russia: Bolshevik armored train retakes Minsk.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Italians make determined stand in the mountains and defeat Austrians' attacks. Lower Piave Austro-Germans make no progress. Some sources mark this as the end of the Battle of Caporetto.
Italy suffered 10,000 killed in action, 30,000 wounded, and 265,000 captured during the recently-concluded Battle of Caporetto.

Naval and Overseas Operations
The wreck of HMS Candytuft: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...969032537899015
A British merchantman accidentally rams the U.S. destroyer USS Chauncey and sinks it, resulting in 21 deaths. The USS Chauncey: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...203073786740736

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): British advance further in the hills of Judea; arrive within six miles of Jerusalem.

Political, etc
Russia: Georgian National Council meets.
Bolsheviks issue offer to the nations for immediate armistice on all fronts for the purpose of discussing a democratic peace.
HM Ambassador Buchanan’s diary ‘At the moment force alone counts’.
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George on Allied War Council in House of Commons.
Italy: Government successfully asks Britain and France for 300,000 rifles; 4,000 MGs, 640 guns and 40 tanks.
United States: U.S. War Department recommends that all government contractors should limit work hours to 8 hours a day.
India: Indira Nehru (Indira Gandhi, future Prime Minister of India) is born in Allahabad to Jawaharlal Nehru (1st Prime Minister of India) and Kamala Nehru.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai 1917 begins (until December 3rd), world’s first massed tank attack. Reinforced British Third Army (Byng) with 19 divisions and entire Tank Corps led by Brigade-General Elles in tank Hilda launch surprise attack without prelim shelling on Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line). 389 tanks (originally 486; the tanks of this era were notoriously subject to breakdowns) and and 1000 artillery guns in support. 179 tanks lost by the end of the first day, 65 by to gunfire; tanks debouch from assembly points at 0620 hours, flatten German wire, rout front line infantry and open breach nearly 6 miles wide and up to 4,000 yards deep. They capture 4,200 PoWs; 123 guns and 281 MGs for 4,000 casualties.
Tank Battle Drill with 4 of 5 infantry assault divisors works as trained, but 51st Highland Div halt before key central Flesquieres sector (39 tanks lost, Unteroffizier Krueger’s gun knocks out 7 of them) and cavalry fail to get up in time. German 107th Infantry Division (from Eastern Front) is detraining at Cambrai when British attack. Germans blow up St Quentin Canal crossings.
During the battle, Royal Flying Corps aircraft conduct low level attacks on anti-tank guns, troop concentrations and strongpoints, paving the way for advancing British tanks and infantry. The German Air Service also conducts low flying attacks against British troops. Royal Flying Corps concentrates 289 aircraft in 15 squadrons to support Third Army and first mass tank thrust against only 78 German planes. 4 Squadrons (13 aircraft lost or wrecked, 13 damaged by ground fire) fly ground attack 45 minutes after assault and 20 Sopwith Camels (4 lost) and Pups attack 4 of 6 targeted airfields. Air observers fail to report German batteries at Flesquieres, one pilot in error reports village captured before 1100 hours.
Britsih tanks advance during the beginning of the Battle of Cambrai. On the left is an overrun German field gun: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...mbrai.jpg?ssl=1
Men of the Royal Irish Rifles heading to the front near Cambrai: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...296188103143424
Lorraine: US 1st Division relieved from first trench stint (83 casualties total).
Germany: Kuhl memo to Ludendorff on an offensive in Flanders.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Failure of Central Powers’ attacks along whole front, however Austrians take Mt Fontanasecca at start of weeklong fighting. Along the coast the Italian navy and British monitors co-operate with land forces.
Italy: The last two French divisions (23rd and 24th) arrive (until November 22). Foch leaves for Paris on November 23.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Giffard’s 1/2nd KAR takes 127 PoWs at another camp. 900 Portuguese arrive at Ngomano. Lettow dismantles Newala radio station and begins march south to river Rovuma.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): Turks stubbornly defend road to Jerusalem. 75th Division storms 3 ridges aided by mist, gets 5 miles north of Jerusalem on November 21, but Yeomanry Division expelled from Zeitun Ridge.

Political, etc
Russia: Bolsheviks declare Ukrainian People’s Republic.
France: M. Georges Clemenceau makes statement of policy.
United Kingdom: Conference between U.S. Mission, War Cabinet and Heads of Departments re: America's co-operation in War.
United States: Starting today, all German males over age 14 living in the US must register with the government. They are also barred around sites of military importance.

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Oh No! No new entry for the day. Maybe the troops are wandering around the battlefield looking for a turkey to have for dinner tomorrow.

Nah, just forced updates taking all the time I had for the updates; then of course, prep for Chessiecon had me running around like a turkey with my head cut off.

I have time this mornign, though, before I head out for the convention.

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: British advance to Cambrai resumed and with 12 tanks captures Cantaing (300 PoWs) and Tadpole Copse; 2 tanks and 6th Division recapture Noyelles. At Fontaine-Notre Dame they are only 2 1/2 miles from Cambrai, but tiredness, fuel and ammo shortages telling. German 20th Division recaptures Moeuvres on north flank.
British reserves are waiting in the trenches: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...nders.jpg?ssl=1
German aircraft strafe BEF 62nd Division as it advances on Bourlon Wood (and on November 22).
A Lewis gun hanging from a wire as a makeshift anti-aircraft gun: © IWM (Q 6335): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...643551594401793
British advance at Cambrai slows as German reinforcements strengthens defenses at Bourlon Ridge.
Aisne: French storm salient on Craonne Plateau south of Juvincourt, beat off counter-attack on November 22.

Eastern Front
Armistice pourparlers begun by Russian Bolshevik Government with Central Powers (see 8th, 27th and 30th).

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Strong Austro-German attacks in mountains between the Brenta and Piave are everywhere repulsed by Italians, except at Mt. Fontana Secca.
Salonika: Local Top German fighter pilot Lieutenant Eschwege (20 victories), ‘Eagle of the Aegean’ killed by explosive-packed balloon (3 British balloons attacked since October 28).
German zeppelin L-59 leaves Yambol, Bulgaria in an attempt to resupply German forces under von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa (Tanzania): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...931621774413824

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: Dover Straits deep minefield (Varne-Cap Gris Nez) partially laid with night illumination and 80-100 patrol vessels, but 21 U-boats get through until December 8.
Mediterranean: Allied naval conference in Rome (Weymss, Bon, Calthorpe, Revel): British offer 1,200 mines and minelayers; French offer to send submarines to Upper Adriatic; Otranto Barrage to be reinforced.
East Africa: Considerable captures of Germans in East Africa by British columns, at Simba and Nevala.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): General Allenby's troops storm the Nebi Samwil ridge, five miles north of Jerusalem; fruitless counter-attacks by Turks.

Political, etc
Germany: German Reichstag considers a bill for a 15 billion mark ($3.75 billion) loan to fund the war effort.
Russia: Bolsheviks radio C-in-C General Nikolai Dukhonin to negotiate armistice. Trotsky tells Petrograd Soviet ‘We make a formal offer to commence peace negotiations and to conclude an armistice’. Bolsheviks dismiss General Dukhonin (Commander-in-Chief) for refusing to negotiate an armistice with enemy.
Ukrainian Republic proclaimed and declared member of Russian Federal Republic.
Allied embassies in Petrograd refuse to meet with Bolshevik Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky, diplomatically isolating the revolutionary government.
United Kingdom: Disenfranchisement of Conscientious Objectors passed in Commons, 209 to 171.
Canada: American armored cars at a Victory Loan parade in Toronto, Canada: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...022234716852224

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Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: All gains on British front consolidated, except at Fontaine Notre Dame, which Germans retake.
19 Royal Flying Corps pilots (8 aircraft lost or wrecked) attack German columns and positions; 3 German fighters shot down.
Unsuccessful German counter-attack south of Juvincourt.
French refugees from Cantaing leaving the front, while British cavalry go the other way towards it: © IWM (Q 6308): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...299047510585344

Eastern Front
Lenin authorizes troops at front to negotiate peace with the enemy.

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Crisis day in key Mt Grappa sector as Austro-Germans storm onto Mt.Tomba (3,176 ft), but Laderchi’s IX Corps’ final effort drives them off (one Italian regiment reduced to 400 soldiers) and reserves consolidate on November 23. Fighting in mountains continues.
Lower Piave Austro-Germans make no progress. Austrian mountain troops storm Mt Pertica from Monte Baldo Alpini battalion, but Alpenkorps and Austrian 50th Division fail to hold gains to east until November 23.
German troops move through a village in northern Italy to the front: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...alien.jpg?ssl=1
A damaged church in Ponte di Piave, Italy after its capture by the Austro-Hungarians and Germans: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...375857749647360
Albania: Austrian attacks in Albania on Italian line between rivers Osum and Voyusa.
Salonika: 150 Bulgars raid British line at the Mamelon (night November 23-24), Lake Doiran sector, causing 27 casualties.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): Turks fail three times to regain Nebi Samwil Hill (2,942 ft) from 75th Division but it and 52nd Division fail at El Jib Height on November 24.
Aden: British troops capture Turkish post of Jabir, 15 miles from Aden.

Political, etc
Germany: Germany announces extension of the "barred zone" for shipping; Dutch indignation.
Teoberto Maler, German archaeologist known for his work on the Mayans, passed away. His photograph of Chichen Itza in 1892: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...359471946076162
Russia: Nikolai Krylenko replaces Nikolai Dukhonin as Russian Commander-in-Chief.
United Kingdom: U.S. Mission under Colonel House leaves London for Paris.
Andrew Huxley, (future Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and biophysicist) half-brother to (future author) Aldous Huxley, is born in Hampstead, London.

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