Western Front
Battle of Cambrai: Further advance on German positions west of Cambrai; British attack Bourlon Wood. British 40th Division attack, with 62 tanks (16 lost, 5 to German anti-aircraft guns) and 432 guns vs 200 German guns, reaches crest but fails to reach village.
German truck (lorry) -mounted flak guns stiffen defence of Fontaine. 50 Royal Flying Corps aircraft (15 wrecked) support BEF ground attack, but Richthofen now in command of sector and shoots down DH5 in Bourion Wood. 3 RFC day bomber squadrons attack six targets.
British Mark IV tank passing by captured German artillery guns at the Battle of Cambrai: © IWM (Q 6336):
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Ypres: British attack in the night and advance on line south-east of Ypres.
Julian Byng promoted to General.
British troops cheering King Albert I of Belgium goodbye after his visit to the frontlines:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: German airship
L-59 reaches East Africa, but turns back west of Khartoum during 95-hour-non-stop flight due to British message in German cipher from Newala radio station. Returns to base after record 4,200-mile flight.
L-59 was in August 1917 the first one of a new class of Zeppelins which represented the latest design techniques and established a pattern that was to persist for almost a year:
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Political, etc
Russia: Lenin Government issues decree for demobilization of Russian army, starting with those who reached the age of conscription in 1899.
Trotsky begins publishing Allied secret treaties in Izvestia.
All class distinctions and civil ranks abolished.
France: M. Albert Lebrun succeeds M. Charles Jonnart as French Minister for Blockade (see 16th).
United Kingdom: Lord Robert Cecil on Bolsheviks.
Ship-building Council appointed. Church bells ring for ‘Cambrai victory’.
United States: German residents in the U.S. are barred from entering tall buildings in New York that gives them view of the New York Harbor or the rivers.