Western Front
Battle of Verdun: Germans capture trenches at Hill 304, French recapture it on December 7.
Eastern Front
Romania: Bukharest capitulates to the German forces (see November 30th, 1918). Mackensen rides in on a white charger, on his 67th birthday. Kaiser celebrates with champagne. 8,000 survivors of Rumanian 1st Division with 26 guns surrender on river Aluta after 125-mile retreat to east.
German, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian armies enter Bucharest, the capital of Romania:
http://imgur.com/MnWB9Dj* © IWM (Q 87134)
Field Marshal August von Mackensen in Bucharest:
http://imgur.com/zAWO26z* © IWM (Q 85937)
Austro-Hungarian cavalry entering Bucharest:
http://imgur.com/3AA9VEQ* © IWM (Q 69958)
German troops and civilian onlookers in Bucharest:
http://imgur.com/XThkCKj* © IWM (Q 87112)
Pripet: Fighting west of Lutsk, around Tarnopol and Stanislau (Galicia) and around Dorna Vatra (Bukovina).
Southern Front
Italy: Reciprocal air attacks on Trieste and Aquileia (Isonzo mouth).
Greece: Royalists at Athens in control. British legation prepares to leave. Massacre of Venizelists in Athens (see 1st, and November 23rd).
Bulgarian activity on the Carso checked.
Naval and Overseas Operations
East Atlantic: Destroyer
HMS Ariel sinks
SM UC-19 with modified explosive sweep (high-speed paravane).
East Africa: Action at Fort Kibata (until December 9): Lettow attacks 800 British troops with 3 (German) guns and seizes Picquet Hill, causing 127 casualties.
Political, etc.
Germany: Berlin Casualty Office ceases to publish regular casualty lists (Verlustliste), giving names, regiments or other particulars. Henceforward alphabetical lists of individuals appear with no indication of unit or even the front concerned.
German newspapers react to Prime Minister Asquith’s resignation, predicting that the war will end soon.
United Kingdom: King George signs an Order in Council giving the Board of Agriculture power to seize land to grow food.
United States: Special Note: 1865 –Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
Greece: Greek Provisional Government at Salonika denounces Royalist Government at Athens as unrepresentative.