Western Front
British obliged to evacuate salient of Brulon wood at Cambrai (night December 4-5 til 7) by threat of renewed German attacks, and loathsome conditions created by unburied corpses, clouds of poison gases and pools of stagnant water.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Viktor von Scheuchenstuel’s Eleventh Army (35 battalions) eliminates Mts Meletta-Badenecche salient northeast of Asiago in 4 hours, taking 16,000 PoWs, 90 guns and 200 MGs until December 5, helped by inadequate Italian gas masks and incompetent General Armani (later sacked); Italian 29th Division destroyed.
Austrian artillery very active towards Brenta river.
Elsewhere, Italian forces repel German and Austro-Hungarian attacks on the Asiago plateau, despite heavy artillery bombardment by the Central Powers.
Austro-Hungarian Major General von Vidale at his headquarters overseeing the attack on Italian troops defending the Meletta:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...709380086181889
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Minor actions north of Jaffa and on Jerusalem road.
British seaplanes active.
Political, etc
France: Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon signs decree forming independent Czech Army. A group of Czechoslovak soldiers in French uniforms on the Western Front. They were recruited from captured or deserted Austro-Hungarian soldiers:
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United Kingdom: Operations at Aden described in House of Lords.
United States: Wilson message to Congress says peace will come when German people agree to a settlement of ‘justice and reparation’:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wood...Union_Addres s
US War Trade Board blacklists 1600 German firms in Latin America.
Finland: Declaration of Independence of Finland from Russia is read in the Finnish Senate. It will be voted on the 6th:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...739600155602944