Western Front
A British sentry on duty on the front at night. Hesdin, Frnace:
http://imgur.com/ChwhZlG
German “official” casualties now number 4,010,160 men killed, wounded, and missing, not including naval and colonial casualties. {Ed note: I am not sure if this is “official” from the consistently over-estimated by Allied sources, or the far more accurate “official” from German sources.}
British carry German trench on front of 0.75 mile, north-east of Beaumont Hamel (Somme region, again.)
Eastern Front
Baltic Provinces: Battle of the Aa: German counter-attack near Kalutsem, south of Lake Babit, repulsed.
Romania: Successful Romanian attack in Casin valley.
Austro-German progress in Susitsa valley and between Braila and Galatz.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: King Hussein finally declines British troops.
Sinai: War Cabinet cables Murray to defer large-scale operations in Palestine till later in year.
Mesopotamia: Turk 45th Division breaks through British line (over 650 casualties) but gradually forced back to Tigris south bank until night January 18-19. British Cavalry Division occupies Hai town, but inhabitants attack, it is retiring on January 14.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Eastern Mediterranean: Seaplane carrier
HMS Ben-my-Chree sunk in Kastelorizo Island harbour by Turk guns off Southwest Asia Minor (more shelling of French island base on February 27).
http://imgur.com/1mAJw1x
This is the only aviation ship lost in the First World War.
British implement dispersal and coasting system in Eastern Mediterranean to try and cut shipping losses, causes friction with French.
Political, etc.
Austro-Hungarian and German Governments issue Note to neutrals and Vatican repudiating responsibility for continuance of war, and declaring that they will prosecute the war to successful end (see December 12th and 30th, 1916, and September 15th, 1918).
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/G...anuary_11,_1917
Allied nations reply to the U.S. that peace is impossible now and outlines terms it seeks from the Central Powers.
Germany: Settlement Treaty signed at Berlin between Germany and Turkey (see April 10th, 1918).
United Kingdom: Bonar Law, concerning a new British war loan: “Shall it ever be said of this country that it is willing to give its sons but not its money?”
PM Lloyd George: “The Allies are still convinced that even war is better than peace at the price of Prussian domination over Europe.”
British Central Liquor Control Board reports that its operations have reduced reports of drunkenness in cities by half.
Important food orders issued by Lord Devonport.
United States: (Listed for yesterday): The Silent Sentinels, a group of women suffragists, begin protesting at the White House:
http://imgur.com/fpxVaTj
Supreme Court Justice Wesley Howard states the U.S. could blockade all belligerent nations to force a peace in Europe.
William F. Cody, the performer famously known as “Buffalo Bill,” passed away:
http://imgur.com/gTy66ad
Montenegro: Second proposal for union with Serbia; General Martinovic succeeds Radovic as Prime Minister.