Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Heavy rains yesterday in Ypres turn the battlefield into a field of mud and hamper Allied operations.
Haig letter to CIGS Robertson , reports ‘good progress’ at Ypres and assures Robertson that BEF can fight German Army with minimal Allied (ie French or Russian) assistance until arrival of US armies in 1918. Haig deplores ‘interference’ by Allies or Prime Minister Lloyd George.
Aisne: both German and French attacks round Craonne fail.
Reims: Germans brake up French attack south-west of Beaumont.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Russian encounter with German scouting-vessels between Oesel Island and north-west Courland.
Political, etc
Germany: Navy airship
L-57 destroyed during a storm.
Russia: Railway strike begins in Russia. (another source states: 1.2 million rail workers on strike since October 6.)
Ukraine inaugurates autonomous Government.
Trotsky now Petrograd Soviet chairman denounces new Kerensky cabinet as a government of civil war. The Petrograd Soviet in session:
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France: Inter-ally Parliamentary Committee commences three-days' conference.
Japan: Japan provides the Russian government with a loan of 66.667 million yen as a sign of support for the Provisional Government.
United States: 247 Puerto Ricans are selected to be trained as officers in the U.S. military, and 12,000 men will also be drafted.
U.S. apologizes to Italy after an American patrol boat fired on an Italian submarine by mistake and killed 2 sailors.
Dr. Charles A. Beard, head of Columbia University’s poli-sci department, resigns after the uni fired 2 other professors for anti-war views.
Spain: Martial law ends in Spain, as “revolutionary disturbances” are suppressed in Catalonia and other provinces.