Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: British advance to Cambrai resumed and with 12 tanks captures Cantaing (300 PoWs) and Tadpole Copse; 2 tanks and 6th Division recapture Noyelles. At Fontaine-Notre Dame they are only 2 1/2 miles from Cambrai, but tiredness, fuel and ammo shortages telling. German 20th Division recaptures Moeuvres on north flank.
British reserves are waiting in the trenches:
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German aircraft strafe BEF 62nd Division as it advances on Bourlon Wood (and on November 22).
A Lewis gun hanging from a wire as a makeshift anti-aircraft gun: © IWM (Q 6335):
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British advance at Cambrai slows as German reinforcements strengthens defenses at Bourlon Ridge.
Aisne: French storm salient on Craonne Plateau south of Juvincourt, beat off counter-attack on November 22.
Eastern Front
Armistice pourparlers begun by Russian Bolshevik Government with Central Powers (see 8th, 27th and 30th).
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Strong Austro-German attacks in mountains between the Brenta and Piave are everywhere repulsed by Italians, except at Mt. Fontana Secca.
Salonika: Local Top German fighter pilot Lieutenant Eschwege (20 victories), ‘Eagle of the Aegean’ killed by explosive-packed balloon (3 British balloons attacked since October 28).
German zeppelin
L-59 leaves Yambol, Bulgaria in an attempt to resupply German forces under von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa (Tanzania):
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: Dover Straits deep minefield (Varne-Cap Gris Nez) partially laid with night illumination and 80-100 patrol vessels, but 21 U-boats get through until December 8.
Mediterranean: Allied naval conference in Rome (Weymss, Bon, Calthorpe, Revel): British offer 1,200 mines and minelayers; French offer to send submarines to Upper Adriatic; Otranto Barrage to be reinforced.
East Africa: Considerable captures of Germans in East Africa by British columns, at Simba and Nevala.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Battle of Nebi Samwil (until November 24): General Allenby's troops storm the Nebi Samwil ridge, five miles north of Jerusalem; fruitless counter-attacks by Turks.
Political, etc
Germany: German Reichstag considers a bill for a 15 billion mark ($3.75 billion) loan to fund the war effort.
Russia: Bolsheviks radio C-in-C General Nikolai Dukhonin to negotiate armistice. Trotsky tells Petrograd Soviet ‘We make a formal offer to commence peace negotiations and to conclude an armistice’. Bolsheviks dismiss General Dukhonin (Commander-in-Chief) for refusing to negotiate an armistice with enemy.
Ukrainian Republic proclaimed and declared member of Russian Federal Republic.
Allied embassies in Petrograd refuse to meet with Bolshevik Foreign Minister Leon Trotsky, diplomatically isolating the revolutionary government.
United Kingdom: Disenfranchisement of Conscientious Objectors passed in Commons, 209 to 171.
Canada: American armored cars at a Victory Loan parade in Toronto, Canada:
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