These are sure interesting. I've enjoyed following "the course of the war" on this day-to-day basis. Fascinating looking back into history. Thanks, GG for your work putting his together.

Western Front
106 French, 56 British, 6 Belgian and 1 Russian division oppose 127 German divisions (44 new divisions formed in 1916).
French military announces (that is, claims) it took 78,500 German prisoners during the Battle of Verdun.

Eastern Front
Romania: Further Austro-German progress in Moldavian mountains and west and south of Focsani.

Southern Front
Italy: Avalanches in the Italian Alps have killed around 10,000 Austro-Hungarian and Italian soldiers this month.
Salonika: Bulgars fail in attack on Braila bridgehead, but carry positions east of Macin.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Sinai: Magharah Wells, Hassana and Nakhl (Sinai) cleared of Turkish forces.

Naval and Overseas Operations
In last quarter of 1916 only 958,000t neutral shipping (723,000t Norwegian) enters British ports compared with 3,442,000 in January to March. Grand Fleet now mostly equipped with Poulsen-arc jam-resistant radios.
North Sea: Dover Patrols has 5 cruisers and 35 destroyers and many smaller craft with 10 French destroyers (Admiral Ronarc’h).
East Africa: Campaign of the Sudan forces in Darfur comes to an end (see March 1st).
Convoy of Indian sappers traveling in trucks on the road to Rufiji, German East Africa: http://imgur.com/Ow2tfRT* © IWM (Q 15609)

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Nearly 5 million men mobilized (800,000 killed, 1 million wounded and sick) but 20 new divisions formed.
Russia: Raspútin murdered in Petrograd. (also reported for 17 December (Old Style) and 30 December (New Style).
By now 14,648,000 Russian men mobilized including 47.4% of the male peasants.
Russian Duma adopts a resolution stating “dark forces” inside the nation are hampering its war efforts.
Germany: German Army has now 16,000 MGs, each division has 48 mortars. In 1916 it has raised 1,050 batteries (4,200 guns).
Kaiser Wilhelm to troops: “All their [Allied] assaults, East and West, have collapsed owning to your bravery and devotion.”
Bankruptcies in Germany fell this year with 2,277 cases, compared to 4,580 in 1915 and 7,738 in 1914.
France: French Army has now 40,000 motor vehicles.
Paris Municipal Council adopts “decisive victory” as the New Year’s resolution for France.
United Kingdom: Douglas Haig promoted to Field Marshal.
United States: Alice Ball, African American chemist who discovered an effective treatment for leprosy, passed away at age 24: http://imgur.com/B1aYptk
Greece: Entente Note to Greece calling for reparation for events of 1 and 2 December, with other demands.

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Western Front
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) School of Photography is formed at Farnborough.
After his Albatros D III’s lower wing cracks in combat in January, Richthofen switches temporarily to a more conventional Halberstadt fighter. Despite modifications wing failures continue to plague the ‘Vee-strutter’ Albatros D III and D V/Va.
No 53 Squadron with B E 2 arrives in France. No 43 Squadron with Sopwith two-seater on January 17; No 35 Squadron with Armstrong-Whitworths on January 24.
Normal activity proceeding.

Eastern Front
Romania: Stubborn fighting in Carpathians. Austro-Hungarian troops advance against Romanian troops in Bekas Pass, crossing the Moldavian frontier.
Dobruja: Austro-Germans in touch with Bulgarians along the Sereth lines at Focsani and Fundeni.

Southern Front
Salonika: Captain G Murlis Green (17 Squadron) forces down 2 Albatros two-seaters behind British lines.
Lieutenant W S Scott of RFC 17 Squadron lands second agent behind Bulgarian lines (first on December 17, 1916).

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: During January battlecruisers Courageous and Glorious (Nicknamed ‘Outrageous’ and ‘Laborious’, respectively) join Grand Fleet.
In January. HMS Muskerry, world’s first fleet minesweeper enters service, 19 sister ships follow by August 1917. Beatty proposes 157-mile minefield with 80,000 mines (only 1,100 in stock) to encircle Heligoland Bight, officially announced on January 23. 
Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt-bound British troop transport Ivernia sunk by coastal submarine UB-47 off Cape Matapan (120 lives lost).
Caribbean: During January US Atlantic Fleet maneuvers until April.
East Africa: British carry German lines near Lissaki in the Mgeta valley (German East Africa), and pursue Germans towards the Rufiji valley at Kibambawe.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: RFP (Retail Food Price) 87% (up 3%).
During January Wheeldon family arrested for farcical plot to murder Prime Minister on golf course with air rifle poison dart (charged at Derby on January 31, jailed March).
Official film Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks released.
Rail fares up 50%.
J.R.R. Tolkien, while on medical leave, is currently writing the early versions of The Book of Lost Tales.
Turkey: Bank of National Credit formed.
Publication of denunciation by Turkey of Treaty of Paris (1856) and Treaty of Berlin (1878).
United States: Sketch by Theodore Roosevelt on his “unsuccessful effort to draw bats from the belfry of WA White.” http://imgur.com/Efc7h0d
Thomas Van Lear becomes the first (and only) Socialist mayor of Minneapolis: http://imgur.com/uOkr2sL
Tuskegee Institute reports that 50 African Americans were lynched in the United States last year.
Egypt: General Sir R. Wingate becomes High Commissioner of Egypt.

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Western Front
Reports claim Allied nations captured a combined total of at least 582,723 prisoners on all fronts last year.
Haig issues orders for Arras offensive on April 8.
Lorraine: Mudra (from Eastern Front) takes over German Army Detachment A (until June 18, 1918) from General d’Elsa (in command since April 15, 1916).
The ruins of the Chateau at Contalmaison, France. The cellar was used as a dressing station: http://imgur.com/TpyoNTn* © IWM (Q 6194)

Eastern Front
Galicia: Südarmee attack near Zloczow repulsed.
Dobruja: Germano-Buolgarian advance between frontier and Focsani; Russian successful counter-attacks south-east of that town.
Mackensen’s Bulgars take Macin and Jijila.
Baltic Provinces: General Scholtz takes over Eighth Army (until April 22) from Mudra (in command since October 22, 1916). General Hutier replaces Scholtz in command of Army Detachment D.
Moldavia: Continued heavy fighting in Moldavian mountains. Austro-Hungarian troops penetrate 8 miles into Moldavian territory and capture 3 villages from the Romanians.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Lawrence and 35 camel men ambush Turk camp southeast of Yanbo. Feisal’s 10,400 men, 4 guns and 10 MGs march on January 3 to Owais wells, 15 miles north of Yanbo for 185-mile advance on Wejh.

Political, etc.
Italy: Italian government orders its cities to increase food production by cultivating available public land, including city parks.
Japan: Japan notifies the U.S. that its merchant ships passing through the Panama Canal will be armed to protect against German U-boats.
Romania: M. Bratianu, Premier of Romania, reconstitutes Cabinet.

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Western Front
First units of Portuguese Expeditionary Force land in France (see August 8th, 1916, and June 17th, 1917).

Eastern Front
Galicia: Lechitski attack succeeds near Mt Botosul, 2,218 German PoWs taken between Kimpolung and Jakobeny (January 27 and 30); 3 German night attacks fail on January 31.
Dobruja: Focsani (Rumania) taken by German forces.
Baltic Provinces: Germans take Dvina Island near Glandau northwest of Dvinsk but Russians recover on January 8.
Romania: Cossack Division leaves Rumanian III Corps for Russian one causing gap that Falkenhayn exploits on January 6.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Emir Faisal and his army on the attack. Picture taken by T.E. Lawrence: http://imgur.com/l0SvLqP* © IWM (Q 58863)

Naval and Overseas Operations:
East Africa: Action of Beho-Beho (until January 4) continues German retreat, but big game hunter Captain Selous DSO, is killed, aged 65 on January 4. Beves’ South African advance guard crosses river Rufiji in four Berthon boats.

Political, etc.
Russia: Imperial family buries Rasputin at Tsarskos Salo by night. His murderers exiled in January 6.
United Kingdom: Admiralty reasserts "immemorial" right of merchant-ships to defend themselves against attack or search by an enemy.

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And the war goes on. Amazing info, GG! Thanks. What a great history lesson.

In a lot of ways, 1917 was the decisive year; after the utterly futile battles of the Somme, Verdun, and the Brusilov offensive, the Allies started to (and only really then started to) get their shit together.
1917 saw the entry of the US into the war, the first use of tracked, armored fighting vehicles (tanks), the two Russian revolutions.
Lots of stuff to come.

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Western Front
France: Nivelle visits and impresses King Albert from Belgium, tells him ‘We must gain our objectives in the first two days of the offensive’. Nivelle also forms a General Staff 4e bureau to handle all logistics at army level.

Eastern Front
Dobruja: Russians defeated at Vacareni, and begin evacuating out of the Dubruja region of Romania as Central Power’s gains threaten to cut off supply lines.
Baltic Provinces: Germans fail to cross to right bank of Dvina near Glandau.
Romania: Mackensen takes Gurgueti and Romanul, piercing Braila bridgehead which Russians evacuate. Falkenhayn begins Battle of the Putna until January 8.

Southern Front
Salonika: British airmen bomb Maritza bridge at Kuleli Burgas (south of Adrianople).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Due to nearly 6 feet of snow, military operations by the Russians and Ottomans in the Caucasus come to a halt.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Eastern Mediterranean: Russian pre-Dreadnought battleship Peresviet sinks on U-boat (probably U-73) mine off Port Said; ship was a Russo-Japanese War prize bought back from Japan. http://imgur.com/89MfteL
East Africa: Action of Beho-Beho ends (see 3rd).

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Emperor and Empress of Austria-Hungary sends an envoy to the Vatican to urge the Pope to intervene for peace.
Germany: London and Berlin agree to swap all internees over 45 years of age.
Kaiser Wilhelm visits Vienna to meet with Austro-Hungarian officials to discuss the war.
France: New French tax on tobacco causes the closure of more than half of the retail shops, leading to shortages.
Belgium: German Governor General of Belgium issues decree ordering the collection of household goods made of brass, copper, tin, nickel, or bronze.
United States: (Listed for yesterday): Former President Theodore Roosevelt says Wilson’s attempts to mediate a peace is “immoral,” as it helps Germany.
Wilson speech ‘There will be no war … it would be a crime against civilisation for us to go in’.
U.S. Federal Reserve Board estimates the belligerent nations have accrued $49.455 billion in new debt since the start of the war.

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Interesting Theodore Roosevelt's comment on President Wilson's attempt to mediate a peace.

Western Front
British capture two minor posts near Beaumont Hamel.

Eastern Front
Dobruja: Dobruja entirely cleared of Russians and Romanians.
Baltic Provinces: Battle of the Aa (until February 3): Surprise Russian Twelfth Army (Radko) offensive with 2 Latvian brigades (3 other regiments refuse to attack, 94 soldiers executed), without prelim shelling, between Lake Babit and Tirul Marsh, west of Riga. It gains 4 miles plus 8,000 PoWs and 36 guns by January 11 despite German counter attacks from January 11-13.
Romania: Braila (Rumania) taken by German forces. (also listed for yesterday); 1,400 soldiers and six machine guns are also captured.
Central Powers advance at various points on Romanian front, especially between the rivers Rimnic and Buzeu.

Southern Front
Salonika: Sarrail and Milne attend Rome Conference, (see Political developments, below), but Italians decline to reinforce them although former impresses Lloyd George. General Sir H Wilson temporarily in command of Salonika Army (January 3-10). British 65th Brigade raid on Akinjali village only takes 4 PoWs.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Battle of Kut-el-Amara begins.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Biscay: French steamer Alphonse Conseil escapes twice only to be caught after 15-hour chase (until January 6) during SM U-48’s patrol claiming 11 ships worth 27,000t.
Black Sea: 4 Russian pre-Dreadnought battleships, 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers sink 39 Turk sailing coasters off Anatolia (until January 9).
East Africa: British occupy Kibambawe in Rufiji valley.

Political, etc.
Germany: (Special 1919): The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
Italy: Inter-Allied Conference assembles in Rome to discuss co-operation, and the questions of Macedonia, Greece, the command of the Salonika expedition and to convene a shipping conference. (Discussions continued on the 6th and 7th.) Fifth Meeting of Allied military and political leaders. Cadorna asks for 8 divisions and 300 heavy guns (later 10 divisions and 400 guns) to capture Laibach and Trieste and so eliminate Austria. Anglo-French only willing to lend guns till April (Western Front offensive), first month when Italian large-scale operations possible. Conference also acts to improve communications to Salonika via Southern Italy.
Belgium: Lieutenant-General Félix Wielemans, Belgian Army Chief of Staff, died due to pneumonia contracted in the trenches: http://imgur.com/LVYytO4
Netherlands: After negotiations, the Netherlands agrees to export 220 pounds of fresh pork to Germany for 176 pounds sent to England.

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There was a lot, I mean a *LOT* of dispute and controversy about whether or not the US should get into the war on the side of the Allies at the time. Wilson himself seems to have had a mostly neutralist stance, with a favoritism among his cabinet for joining the Allies.

From the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameri...nto_World_War_I

Historians divide the views of American political and social leaders into four distinct groupings—the camps were mostly informal:

The first of these were the Non-Interventionists, a loosely affiliated and politically diverse anti-war movement which sought to keep the United States out of the war altogether. Members of this group tended to view the war as a clash between British imperialism and German militarism, both of which they regarded as equally corrupt. Others were pacifists, who objected on moral grounds. Prominent leaders included Democrats like former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, industrialist Henry Ford and publisher William Randolph Hearst; Republicans Robert M. La Follette, Senator from Wisconsin and George W. Norris, Senator from Nebraska; and Progressive Party activist Jane Addams.

At the far-left end of the political spectrum the Socialists, led by their perennial candidate for President Eugene V. Debs and movement veterans like Victor L. Berger and Morris Hillquit, were staunch anti-militarists and opposed to any US intervention, branding the conflict as a "capitalist war" that American workers should avoid. However, after the US did join the war in April, 1917 a schism developed between the anti-war Party majority and a pro-war faction of Socialist writers, journalists and intellectuals led by John Spargo, William English Walling and E. Haldeman-Julius. This group founded the rival Social Democratic League of America to promote the war effort among their fellow Socialists.[13]

Next were the more moderate Liberal-Internationalists. This bipartisan group reluctantly supported a declaration of war against Germany with the postwar goal of establishing collective international security institutions designed to peacefully resolve future conflicts between nations and to promote liberal democratic values more broadly. This groups's views were advocated by interest groups such as the League to Enforce Peace. Adherents included US President Woodrow Wilson, his influential advisor Edward M. House, former President William Howard Taft, famed inventor Alexander Graham Bell, Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch and Harvard University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.[14]

Finally, there were the so-called Atlanticists. Ardently pro-Entente, they had strongly championed American intervention in the war since 1915. Their primary political motivation was to both prepare the US for war with Germany and to forge an enduring military alliance with Great Britain. This group actively supported the Preparedness Movement and was strong among the Anglophile political establishment of the northeast, boasting such luminaries as former President Theodore Roosevelt, Major General Leonard Wood, prominent attorney and diplomat Joseph Hodges Choate, former Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. of Massachusetts and Elihu Root of New York.[15]

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Lot of interesting political insight. Don't think I've ever heard as complete a discussion of the political environment in the U.S. leading up to WWI. Thanks.

Western Front
French GQG moves from Chantilly to Beauvais. General Louis Rucquoi becomes Belgian CoS (after death of Félix Wielemans).

Eastern Front
Baltic Provinces: Battle of the Aa: Russian troops attack German trenches in the swamps southwest if Riga, capturing two lines of trenches and several hundred prisoners.
Dobruja: Last Russian and Rumanian forces evacuate the Dobrudja (see August 25th, 1916, and December 3rd, 1918). (Also reported for yesterday).
Romania: Central Power armies begin moving toward the Romanian city of Galați after the fall of Brăila. 5 villages are captured.

Naval and Overseas Operations
"lnter-Allied Chartering Committee" established for chartering shipping (see December 3rd, 1916 and November 3rd, 1917).
British Royal Navy orders 6 Anchusa-type ‘Flower’-class convoy sloops for June and September completion (2 more on January 13 and remaining on February 20 and 21), enter service from June 1917 to June 1918. https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...lower-class.jpg

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: British news film “Topical Budget,” showing bob sleighing in Canada, among other news: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/5413
Labour Congress opposes Military Service Bill.
Italy: There will be no fetes or banquets during the Allied war conference in Rome, and all meals will conform to ration requirements.
Japan: Japan starts arming its merchant ships with 10-inch guns in order to protect them against German submarines.
United States: U.S. Senate votes 48 to 17 to approve President Wilson’s attempts to mediate a peace in Europe.
Deans of 95 medical schools in the U.S. endorse universal military training for young men.
Netherlands: The Dutch government states it has taken no steps to promote peace in Europe, believing it would be worthless in the present circumstances.

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Western Front
British military band playing at La Neuville-les-Bray, France: http://imgur.com/yDc8sPh
The Victoria Cross is awarded to Sergeant Thomas Mottershead of No.20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps.
This is the only Victoria Cross to be won by a non-commissioned officer of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, for recovering his burning aircraft, a Royal Aircraft Factory F. E. 2d, from a fighting patrol in Ploegsteert Wood in France and for saving the life of his observer, Lieutenant W.E. Gower.

Eastern Front
Baltic Provinces: Battle of the Aa: In the snow, Russian troops, using white clothing to cover their uniforms, surprise German troops near Riga & capture 1000 yards of trenches.
Romania: Russian troops in Romania counterattack Central Power lines southwest of the Siret River on a 15-mile front and advance on a few points.
However, Russo-Romanian front broken north-west of Focsani.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: British Arab Bureau reports Baron Max von Oppenheim’s mission at Medina.
Mesopotamia: Maude’s feints begin with shelling of the Hai and Sannaiyat (7th Division trench raids).

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Action at Fort Kibala (until January 9): KAR (King’s African Rifles) capture 6 hills as Lettow raises siege.

Political, etc.
Germany: Pless Crown Council backs unlimited U-boat war. Kaiser’s civilian cabinet chief diary entry: ‘Finis Germaniae’.
France: French and Belgian officials meet in Paris to protest the forced deportations of French and Belgian civilians in German-occupied territory.
Canada: Gold worth $25 million is transported under armed guards from Halifax, Canada to New York City.
Italy: Allied conference in Rome ends today, with a declaration that the Allied nations are united in their war aims.
Romania: Michael the Brave War Order created (3 classes).
Greece: Former Greek Minister of Finance M. Diomede claims that Germany is controlling the Greek army.

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Eastern Front
Baltic Provinces: Battle of the Aa: Russians recover island in Dvina near Glandau. Heavy fighting south of Lake Babit; no material change of positions.
Romania: Falkenhayn captures Focsani with 5,500 PoWs (another source says 4,000) and crosses river Putna north and southeast of it on January 9, only to be repelled on January 10.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Khalil Pasha moves Sixth Army HQ from Baghdad to 20 miles west of Kut, but refuses to evacuate south bank.

Political, etc.
Russia: M. Aleksandr Trepov, Russian Premier, resigns and is succeeded by Prince Nikolai Golitsin (see November 24th, 1916 and March 13th, 1917).
Canada: Canadian official casualties now number 68,290 men killed, wounded, and missing.
Italy: Italy arrests more than 40 people as saboteurs for sinking the battleships Benedetto Brin and Leonardo da Vinci. (Note: at least the da Vinci was not in fact, sabotaged, but rather destroyed by accidental internal explosion. The Brin more likely was actually sabotaged).
United States: President Wilson criticizes newspapers for speculating on U.S. diplomatic moves, as it could lead to war.
Mary McElroy, sister of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur who served as First Lady (Chester had been widowed in 1880), passed away: http://imgur.com/36y5hJv
Margaret Sanger at a courthouse in Brooklyn while on trial for opening the first birth control clinic in the US: http://imgur.com/LWfbCQI
Greece: Allied ultimatum to government demands acceptance of December 31, 1916 terms. Greece accepts on January 10.

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