Western Front
Flanders: German “attacks” north of Menin road and north-east of Passchendaele repulsed.
Canadian stretcher-bearers carrying a wounded man near Passchendaele: © IWM (CO 2202):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...402467229196288
US Army Engineer Corps testing a dazzle camouflage suit:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...509421930786822
In the past 16 months, Britain claims to have captured 131,731 prisoners of war, (on all fronts), along with 705 artillery guns.
Eastern Front
Southern Russia: Mikhail Alexeiev arrives at Don Cossack capital Novocherkask, but Alexei Kaledin says Cossacks unwilling to fight so he moves to Kuban Cossack capital Ekaterinodar.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): German 117th Division gets 4 battalions across near Ponte di Piave (night November 15-16) but wiped out by 3 Italian brigades who take 600 PoWs (until November 16); first Italian success since Caporetto. Italians give ground both sides of the Brenta; von Below and Boroevic cease crossing attempts, although 41st Hungarian Division crosses river delta and captures Cava Zuccherina, 16 miles of lagoon from Venice.
On Lower Piave resistance maintained. Allied reinforcements arrive daily.
Town of Castello Tesino, Italy after its capture by the Austro-Hungarian offensive:
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Italian troops carrying supplies up the Alps in the battle to hold against the Austro-Hungarian and German offensive:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Japanese Government unable to comply with request of British Government that two Japanese battlecruisers should join the Grand Fleet in the North Sea (see February 8th, 1916, and April 17th, 1917).
East Africa: Further actions on Makonde Plateau. Germans and allies driven from Chivata; make for Portuguese territory.
George Giffard’s 1/2nd KAR takes Chiwata with 606 PoWs and liberate 67 British PoWs after Paul von Lettow’s evacuation.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: General Edmund Allenby advances to within three miles of Jaffa. Anzac Mounted Division occupies Ramleh and Ludd. Yeomanry charge against Turkish rearguard at entry to Judean Hills. Since 31 October over 9,000 prisoners taken.
Turkish cavalrymen retreat through Palestine pursued by British troops:
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Political, etc
Germany: German Socialists urge Germany to seek peace with the Bolshevik government in Petrograd.
Russia: Georgian Nobility declares its property national.
Bolsheviks in power in Petrograd. Bitter fighting in Moscow, by counter-revolutionaries kills over 4,000.
After several days of street fighting, Moscow falls to the Bolsheviks:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...766107857903617
Bolsheviks issue the “Declaration of the Rights of Peoples of Russia,” promising equal rights, self-determination of minorities, and abolishment of state and religious privileges and restrictions:
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France: M. Georges Clemenceau accepts office and forms a new Minsstry. Himself Prime Minister and Minister of War, M. Stephen Pichon Foreign Minister.
Georges Clemenceau agrees to become the new Prime Minister of France:
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United Kingdom: British Premier Lloyd George makes public the plans for a Supreme War Council of the Allies to coordinate the militaries of Britain, France, and Italy. British Government give further pledge in house of Commons that restitution of Alsace-Lorraine is a War Aim (see February 15th).
United States: 33 of the arrested “Silent Sentinels,” women suffragists who had been protesting at the White House, are brutally beaten and tortured by prison guards in a “Night of Terror”:
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