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17 November 1917

Western Front
British salient widened on Passchendaele ridge.
Successful raid south of River Scarpe.
Surprise attacks by French south-east of St. Quentin and in Champagne.

Eastern Front
Wounded soldiers from various Central Powers nations at a Hungarian hospital: © IWM (Q 54221): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...529930629935104

Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave
(until December 30): Fierce mountain fighting: Germans take Quero and Monte Cornella. The Italians flood parts of the Piave valley to hold off the offensive.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
: Vice-Admiral T Napier’s battlecruisers Glorious, Courageous and Repulse, 8 cruisers and 10 destroyers chase 4 German light cruisers, which were covering and smokescreening minesweepers, for 2 hours and firing 147 15-inch shells until battleships Kaiser and Kaiserin appear and dense fog intervenes. Germans suffer 7 hits, Admiral Reuter’s flagship cruiser Königsberg (31 casualties) hit by Repulse; Pillau hit by Courageous. Royal Navy ships suffer 5 hits including cruisers Caledon and Calypso hit (Captain H L Edwards killed). A claim that one German mine-sweeper is sunk, but I can’t verify that. It might refer to the German torpedo boat A-50, which struck a mine and sank this day.
East Atlantic: First US Navy U-boat kill: convoy escort destroyers Fanning and Nicholson sink U-58 off Milford Haven.
East Africa: British troops pursue Germans and occupy Lutshemi. KAR and Nigerians troops (last 38 casualties) win fight at Lutshemi despite 2 disabled guns. Lettow at Newala picks his force to invade Portuguese East Africa.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: New Zealand Mounted Rifles capture the port of Jaffa and the nearby town of Tel Aviv, Palestine. The Jewish residents had by expelled by the Ottomans in April. This leads to:
Battle of Nebi Samwil begins (see 24th): The battle was the first attempt by the forces of the British Empire to capture Jerusalem. The village of Nebi Samwil (now spelled Nabi Samwil), also known as the "Tomb of Samuel", was part of the Ottoman defenses in front of Jerusalem and its capture was considered vital to the eventual capture of the city. The British attacking force consisted of three divisions, two infantry and one mounted. Despite these losses in earlier defeats, the majority of the Ottoman armies had managed to withdraw relativity intact, but they had been split with no way for the 7th and 8th Armies to support one another if or when they were attacked. Further the Ottoman Seventh Army on the British right was cut off from the Palestinian rail network and all their supplies would have to be brought in by road.
The British Imperial Camel Corps marching into the recently captured city of Beersheba, Palestine: © IWM (Q 13157): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...469557843316737

Political, etc
Russia
: Pro-Soviet Captain Modest V Ivanov made assistant Navy Minister. Lenin saw him on November 14. Supreme Naval Board formed on November 20.
Five Pro-Socialist Cooperation Bolshevik leaders leave Central committee after Lenin speech. Trotsky takes over empty Foreign Ministry. Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad) goes Bolshevik.
United Kingdom: Children cheer as King George V visit the dockyards at Greenock: © IWM (Q 54484): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...127240682868736
United States: Film The Zeppelin’s Last Raid showing.
President Wilson and the Cabinet approves plan to force German males over the age of 14 residing in the US to register with the government.
China: Chinese Premier Duan Qirui (pictured) resigns due to disagreements within the Peking government on how to deal with Sun Yat-sen’s rebel government in the south: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...182622016929793
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