Western Front
Flanders: British consolidate northwest of Passchendaele. German attacks north of Menin Road and northeast of Passchendaele on November 15. Relief of Canadian Corps begins until November 20; after 15,654 battle casualties since c. October 18.
Artillery active in French sector.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Franz Conrad and Alfred Krauss’ Austrians armies link up at Fonzaso.
Column of Italian soldiers who had been captured during the Battle of Caporetto:
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Salonika: British begin 50-mile Stavros light railway, with 4,000 Turkish PoWs in batches from Cyprus, to replace uncertain shipping service from Salonika (completed May 1918).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: General Allenby continues advance in Palestine; Jerusalem railway reached.
Political, etc
Russia: Civil strife and much confusion in Petrograd, following the defeat of Kerenski. Kerensky’s troops change sides, but he escapes disguised as sailor, hides in forest cottage near Luga for 40 days.
France: M. Jean-Louis Barthou, French Foreign Minister, resigns (see 13th and October 23rd). French Premier Paul Painlevé:
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United Kingdom: In House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George explains Allied War Council.
United States: James W. Gerard, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, urges, “We should ‘hog-tie’ every disloyal German-American…hang every traitor to a lamppost…”