Diary April 28, 1916

04-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Italian monitor 'Faa di Bruno' — One of the 1916-17 constructed Italian monitors (Batteria semovente = Mobile Batteries) is ‘Faa di Bruno’.

Diary for Friday, April 28, 1916:

Sea War

Italy: Navy commissions its first of 10 wartime monitors (mainly converted captured Austrian barges or lighters).

Middle East

Mesopotamia, Kut: Townshend offers £2 millions (increase prompted by T.E. Lawrence), his 50 guns and promise not to fight Turks for duration of war for his men’s freedom. Khalil prepared to accept but Enver Pasha wants absolute surrender.

Neutrals

USA: Scheele and other Germans indicted for conspiracy to destroy munition ships.
British agreement with Chicago International Harvester Corp.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Sea War

Middle East

Neutrals

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