Western Front
Artois: Battles of Arras end BEF has regained 61 sq miles, taken 20,834 PoWs and 252 guns in 38 days. British repulse counter-attacks north of Gavrelle.
British hold on Siegfried line, north-east of Bullecourt, extended.
King Albert I of Belgium inspecting Australian troops in the ruined town of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 3125:
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French make appreciable advance east of Craonne.
French soldier reading a map of the area of Mont Sans Nom: © IWM (Q 78893):
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Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians claim 4,021 prisoners in last two days' advance in Carso and on Vodice. Austrians claim 2,000 prisoners in the Carso.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Adriatic: Austrian
U-5 mined and sunk off Pola but raised and reused.
General Van Deventer succeeds General Hoskins in East Africa.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: CoS Arz (to Czernin) believes Russian Army collapse will obviate need for armistice talks.
Germany: German Chancellor indicates lines of peace with Russia.
Russia: Cabinet reshuffle admits 6 Petrograd Soviet Menshevik members. M. Aleksandr Kerenski succeeds General Aleksandr Guchkov as Russian Minister for War (see March 15th and November 8th). M. Mikhail Tereshchenko succeeds M. Pavel Milyukov as Russian Foreign minister (see March 15th and November 8th). Kerensky, as War Minister is visited at Petrograd by all the C-in-Cs.
Trotsky arrives in Petrograd (from April 3 internment in Canada). Lev Davidovich Bronstein, called Trotsky:
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France: (Listed for yesterday): 2000 French women clothing workers go on strike in Paris, calling for increased pay and a 5-day workweek. Strike spreads to other industries.
United Kingdom: Suffrage bill is introduced in the House of Commons to give women over the age of 30 the right to vote.
Mr. Lloyd George proposes Home Rule (for Ireland) at once and suggests Convention.
United States: Aircraft Production Board set up.
A “portable hospital” designed by the Rockefeller Institute for use near the front is revealed:
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