Diary August 20, 1916

08-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

U35 receives visitors from a small UB coastal sub. The figure in British uniform on U35 (right) is Captain Wilson, King’s Messenger, taken prisoner by Arnauld during this patrol.

Diary for Sunday, August 20, 1916:

Sea War

Mediterranean: U35 (Arnauld) returns to Cattaro after record-breaking 25-day cruise (since July 26) sinkings with 900 shells and 4 torpedoes: 54 ships (32 Italian carrying 50,000t coal), totalling 91.0001 mainly in Western Mediterranean (French patrol areas).

Southern Fronts

Secret War: Austrians crack new Italian cipher system in 38 hours.
Salonika: Sarrail and his five Allied commanders agree to postpone offensive but launch counter-offensive as Bulgar 7th Division causes 380 casualties to retreating French. Serbian General Jurisic-Stuerm replaced in command of Third Army by General Vassic.

Middle East

Armenia: IV Caucasus Corps retakes Mus bridge and 500 PoWs.
Persia: Baratov halts on Sultanbulak Pass 50 miles north of Hamadan, has 7,000 fit troops and 22 guns against 17,000 exhausted Turks.

Politics

Austro-Montenegrin peace talks broken off.

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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.