Western Front
Britain carries out a daylight raid on German trenches near Loos, destroying dugouts, inflicting casualties, & capturing prisoners.
Verdun: French repulse attacks north of Bois de Caurieres. (Again, probably nothing more than minor raids).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Persia: Ali Ihsan ordered to move troops to Baghdad, 44th Regiment leaves Kermanshah.
Political, etc.
Germany: Germany releases this propaganda poster, replying to Allied propaganda calling the Germans “Barbarians”. Banner headline reads, “We Barbarians!” Middle section, the columns represent Germany, England, and France, in that order. Rows are labeled, “Illiteracy rates per 10,000 citizens”; “median wages(?)” (ed note: not too sure about this one, it might actually read closer to “standard of living”); “books engraved” (i. e. published); “spending on social welfare”. Bottom of the poster highlights the many Nobel Prize winners for the years 1901-1915, compare the nationality of such, and especially highlights many of the German notables.
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(reported for yesterday): An explosion at a munitions laboratory in Spandau, Germany results in 10 deaths and 20 injuries.
Russia: Tsar Nicholas II issues an imperial rescript calling on all Russians to back the army to the fullest extent.
Russian General Aleksei Brusilov predicts that “during the coming year the enemy will be completely routed.”
France: The Bishop of Verdun, who had to flee the German advance, returns to the city and expresses assurances of coming victory.
Turkey: Ottoman Empire accuses France of coveting Syria and Britain of wanting to take over Mesopotamia (Iraq).
United States: Funeral of Admiral George Dewey, commander during the Battle of Manila Bay, in Washington DC:
http://imgur.com/iPQV7jI
The U.S. cuts the number of guards on the US-Mexican border by 15,000, as demobilization of the Mexican expedition continues.
Herbert Hoover, head of the Belgian Relief Commission (and future US President), asks $200 million to aid civilians in occupied Belgium.
Switzerland: Some Swiss citizens living overseas are ordered to return home to serve in the Swiss Army, due to fears of a German invasion.