Western Front
“Christmas with the Corpsmen,” by Carl Simon, depicting German corpsmen:
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Eastern Front
Ukraine: RNAS Armoured Car Squadron rear party disable remaining cars and guns after ugly confrontation with local Reds.
Ukrainian People’s Republic of Soviets is proclaimed in Bolshevik-occupied Kharkov. Most of Ukraine is controlled by the anti-Bolshevik Rada.
Southern Front
First Battle of the Piave (until December 30): Heavy fighting continues on Asiago plateau for passage of Brenta river. Toscana Brigade and 5th Bersaglieri regiment etc stiffen Italian line and repulse final Austrian attack.
Soldiers and Italian civilians gather around a crash site of an Austro-Hungarian aeroplane: © IWM (Q 26545):
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Irish Sea: Royal Navy sloop
Buttercup and
PC56 (convoy escorts) ram and sink
U-87 with all 44 crew. Twice-victorious Q-ship
Penshurst sunk by U-boat.
Mozambique: British pursue Germans 40 miles south of River Rovuma; latter broken up. KAR (King’s African Rifles) Native troops follow Lettow-Vorbeck’s troops into Portuguese East Africa:
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Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Count Ottokar Czernin replies to Russian peace proposals of 22 December.
France: French Premier Georges Clemenceau says age limits for commanders are too high, and instead urges that more younger soldiers with experience at the front be promoted.