Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive: First Battle of Kemmel Ridge begins (see 19th): Intense bombardment, followed by infantry attack, on whole line from Nieppe Forest to Wytschaete. Wytschaete and Meteren again lost. North-west of Dixmude, Belgians take 700 prisoners and 42 machine guns.
French repulse local attacks on Meuse and in Champagne.
Specially-prepared positions for Vickers machine-gun teams somewhere among the Flanders battlefields: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ndern.jpg?ssl=1
Heaνy German mustard gas attack οπ Villers-Bretonneux.
Germany: Erich Ludendorff orders Aisne attack preparations by German Crown Prince.
A horse wounded near the front being treated at a veterinary hospital at St. Omer, France: © IWM (Q 10909): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...913245272862724
A British soldier having a shave while another mans a Lewis gun near Robecq: © IWM (Q 8721): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...169918252109824

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: British monitors Erebus and Terror bombard Ostend.
North Atlantic: 4 Royal Navy drifters sink coastal submarine UΒ-82 in Northern Channel.
Adriatic: Italian submarine Η.5 sunk in error by ΗΜ Submarine Η.1.
Mozambique: War Office reports progress.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Turks approach Kars, and claim 250 guns at Batum.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Baron Burian succeeds Count Czernin as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
France: General Emile Belin succeeds General Maxime Weygand on Supreme War Council.
Bolo Pasha is executed.
Canada: Government makes proposals for increase of manpower.
United States: Americans testing mobile anti-aircraft searchlights in Washington, DC: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...154821311959040

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Hard to imagine that the war is within seven months of ending but the battlefield reports still suggest heavy fighting is the norm rather than the exception with Germany giving about as well as she's getting. I'm just thinking how different that seems from WWII when after Stalingrad, Germany was basically on the defensive through the end of the war.

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive: First Battle of Kemmel Ridge (see 19th): In the north, attacks south of Kemmel repulsed. Belgians repulse attack north-west of Passchendaele.
Battle of Béthune: Heavy attacks from Givenchy to Lys river. Fighting particularly severe at Givenchy, where Germans make advance of 10 miles gained since April 9.
British soldiers fighting in the ruins of Cuinchy: © IWM (Q 10942): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...245432392208384
French progress on Avre river and take 650 prisoners at Castel with tank support.
The new recruits for the British infantry in 1918 in Etaples: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1918.jpg?ssl=1
Two groups of African American soldiers having a tug-of-war contest: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...185025082228736
British Major General F. B. Maurice: “The British army is playing the role which it often has played before. It is fighting a Waterloo...”
French children riding a carousel in the streets of Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...578884488515584

Southern Front
Macedonia: Bulgarian detachments attack Italians in Cherna Bend and are repulsed. Four-day British artillery harassing in Lake Doiran sector plus 3 trench raids (April 20 and 22) cost 136 casualties for 100 Bulgarians.
Italy: Italian II Corps (3rd and 8th Divisions) begins tο entrain (until April 27) for Western Front; comprises 52,826 men as symbol of Αllied unity and affront tο Austria.

Naval and Overseas Operations
German destroyers bombard Adinkerke (Belgian coast).
A dazzle-camouflaged American transport ship arriving with American troops at Brest: © IWM (Q 58240): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...609085364785152

Political, etc
United Kingdom: The 3rd Military Service Bill (Manpower) receives Royal Assent. This law , lowers age to 17 1/2 and raises it to 50, eyesight criteria lessened. It also extended military conscription to Ireland.
Shakeups in the British government: Lt.-Gen. Sir D. Henderson resigns from Air Board. Mr. A. Chamberlain joins War Cabinet. Early of Deby appointed Ambassador to France, vice Lord Bertie. Viscount Milner to be Secretary of State for War.
Ireland: The conscription law faces widespread opposition in Ireland, and Sinn Fein and labour movements plan strikes. Dublin Mansion House Conference, after consultation with Bishops, denies right of Government to enforce conscription.
South Africa: Cape Town: In House of Assembly, Sir P. Fitzpatrick denounces Mr. Hertzog for sedition.
Italy: Prime Minister Orlando announces Italian troops sent tο Western Front.
Central Inter-Allied Propaganda Commission begins work at Padua (by October 70 million publications sent tο Austrian Army and beyond cause “much” desertion).

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive: First Battle of Kemmel Ridge (see 19th): First Battle of Kemmel Ridge ends. North of Merville heavy shelling, but no infantry attacks. Position restored at Givenchy.
Battle of Béthune: Scarpe river British capture a few prisoners and machine guns.
Sharp fighting at Robecq, but then there is a lull in fighting; minor actions (until April 24). General Antoine de Mitry assumes command of French Νorthern Army Detachment (until July 5) which relieves British ΙΧ Corps, 6 battered British divisions withdrawn for rest.
French artillerymen go into action with a train-mounted naval gun during the fighting to halt the German offensive along the Lys River: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...z-lys.jpg?ssl=1
Frenchwomen workers sorting and repairing underwear for American troops at Tours, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...639305438310400

Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: German troops under Colonel Brandenstein captures Lahti, cutting off 25,000 Red Guards and joins with Whites on April 20. Fighting till Reds surrender until May 2.
Ukraine: German forces enter the Crimea. Germans report occupation of two stations of main Sevastopol line.

Southern Front
Asiago Plateau: Successful minor action by British announced.
Macedonia: British withdraw from positions in Struma valley occupied on 15th.

Naval and Overseas Operations
English Channel: German submarine SM UB-78, which sunk 2 ships during its career, hits a mine off Dover with loss of all 35 crew.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Lieutenant-Colonel Α Dawnay and Lawrence plus 5 armored cars, 2 aircraft, Egyptian Camel Coy and Bedouin capture Tell-esh* Shakin Station (54 PoWs, 200 rifles), occupy Ramleh and wreck 80 miles of line; Medina cut off from north.
Armenia: Turkish Ι Caucasian Corps breaks Nazarbekov’s 9,000-strong Armenian line (350 casualties) southwest of Kars.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: British Government announces right of search re: Dutch convoy of 16 April.
Belgium: Lieutenant-General Cyriaque Gillain replaces Lieutenant-General Louis Rucquoy as CoS under King Albert.
United States: U.S. State Department says American landing in Vladivostok is merely police precaution.

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I love the picture of the French ladies sorting and repairing "underwear" for the American troops. Who would have thought? Love this series. Amazing what you learn. (Almost hate to see the war end this coming November ... well at least the 100th anniversary of the ending.) Thanks!

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive:
Flanders: German gas bombardment of Kemmne-Ypres with 9 million rounds (2,000t) mustard gas, phosgene and diphenylchlorarsine fired (until April 25) at BEF; 8,470 gassed (43 deaths). North-east of Ypres German minor attempt fails.
(Listed for yesterday): William Hope Hodgson, English author known for works like the “Sargasso Sea Stories, “The House on the Borderland” and “The Night Land,” is killed in action at Ypres: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...967769005613057
Somme: Skirmishes go in favor of British (until April 22).
Richthofen’s 80th (and last) victory, a Sopwith Camel northeast of Villers-Brelonneux.
Meuse: Germans gain ground at Seicheprey (Woevre) against Franco-Americans, who counter-attack successfully on April 21.
German troops capture Seicheprey, France from American soldiers, but they retake the town after hand-to-hand fighting: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...269777893871616
Artois: Pershing visits Canadian Corps.
German shells falling on the village of Rambucourt, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...300021828816896

Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: Details of intentions of Finnish "White Party" are published in Stockholm.
Carl Mannerheim attacks towards Viborg with 24,000 men and 40 guns (until April 29).
The Finnish Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustav Mannerheim: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...m-1WK.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
British and German destroyers in contact in Heligoland Bight. One German destroyer damaged.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Lord Derby, Secretary of State for War, Great Britain, resigns to become ambassador to France: Viscount Milner appointed Secretary of State for War, Great Britain (see 18th).
First National Emergency Proclamation, withdrawing exemptions up to 23.75 years, issued.
Canada: 20-22 year-old men called up.
United States: “Sabotage Act”, a codification of the Alien Enemies Act. It was used by the government to identify and imprison “dangerous” enemy aliens from Germany; more commonly used to suppress German-language publications in the US, and to prosecute those who spoke out against the US participation in the war. (Also, used later in World War II to persecute ethnic German, Japanese, and to a lesser extent, Italian descendant American citizens.
President Woodrow Wilson, while riding a British tank in front of the White House, accidentally burns himself when he grabbed on to a hot exhaust pipe: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...998102686162947
Karl Fredinand Braun, German physicist and Nobel laureate who invented the cathode-ray tube, passed away in Brooklyn, New York: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...330309199925248

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Western Front
Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht, Baron von Richthofen, the 'Red Baron', is shot down and killed. Manfred von Richthofen was the most successful fighter pilot of the First World War and at the time of his death, he had shot down 80 Allied aircraft in air combat. Although Captain Roy Brown of No.209 Squadron is credited with the destruction of von Richthofen's Fokker Triplane, it is virtually certain that the Red Baron actually fell victim to ground fire whilst being pursued by Captain Brown.
Von Richthofen: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...632128300126208
The funeral of Richthofen with military honors by the 13th squadron of the Australian Air Force: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ebnis.jpg?ssl=1
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/images...mbs/p021391.jpg
Footage of Australian soldiers breaking apart the Red Baron’s crashed triplane: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...e.ogv.240p.webm
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive: Position at Seicheprey restored. Local fighting round Albert, Villers Brettonneux and Robecq.
Great aerial activity and much bombing on whole front.
British Casualties on Somme and in Flanders since March 21 total nearly 250,000 soldiers.
Result of 29 days' bombardment of Paris: 118 killed, 236 injured.
British war dog wearing a gas mask at the kennels near Etaples, France: © IWM (Q 29559): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...360599804956672
British and French soldiers sitting on an artillery gun and smiling for the camera: © IWM (Q 10926): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...662398550106112

Naval and Overseas Operations
Western Mediterranean: Royal Navy ML.413 depth charges and sinks Cattaro-bound coastal-submarine UB-71 off Ceuta.

Political, etc
France: New constitution of Versailles Council announced.
United Kingdom: The King sends message to munition workers.
Sir M. de Bunsen sent on Mission to South America.
Australia: Australian Roman Catholic Bishops protest against Government action in Ireland.
Japan: Count Ichiro Motono, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, resigns (see 22nd, and November 21st, 1916).

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