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Old 04-14-2017, 07:39 AM
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14 April 1917

Western Front
Battle of Vimy Ridge
and First Battle of the Scarpe end (see 9th). 10 men of Royal Newfoundland Regiment (485 casualties) hold Monchy against 3rd Bavarian Division for 5 hours until reinforced. Canadian losses 10,602 for a 4,500 yards advance capturing 4,000+ PoWs, 54 guns, 104 mortars and 124 Mgs.
British capture Vimy Station, Lievin, and Cite St. Pierre (Lens).
German attack on British at Monchy-le-Preux repulsed.
British forces claim the capture of 13,000 German soldiers and 166 artillery guns since the start of the Arras offensive.
Canadian soldiers have overpowered a German trench detachment and are collecting military passports: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...raben.jpg?ssl=1
British Royal Engineers building a temporary bridge and pontoon-ferry over the Scarpe River: © IWM (Q 5821): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9779713/photo/1
Wounded British soldiers awaiting transport in the devastated town of Blangy: © IWM (Q 6195): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9758976/photo/1
21 French and British aircraft indiscriminately bomb Freiburg in reprisal for Allied hospital ship losses. Royal Navy Air Service 3rd Wing withdrawn mid-May from Luxeuil.
German authorities order the evacuation of civilians from Lens, France as the British offensive approaches the city.

Eastern Front
7,688 men desert from Russian North and West Fronts (until April 21); numbers considerably underestimated.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Emperor Charles draft letter to Czernin ‘A smashing German victory would be ruin’. Russia spurns Austrian peace-feeler.
Russia: Note of Allies (France, England, Italy) to Russia re: Poland.
United Kingdom: Appeals to farmers against hoarding by Mr. Lloyd George and Board of Trade.
United States: President Wilson signs an executive order creating the Committee on Public Information to influence American opinion on the war.
U.S. House of Representatives approve to raise a $7 billion (about $133 billion today) war loan without a single dissenting vote.
Poland: L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish doctor who invented the constructed language Esperanto, passed away.
Brazil: Brazil states it will start arming its merchant ships in order to protect them from German submarines.
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