Diary December 22, 1917

12-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

The town of Ypres, its houses ruined and deserted, pitted by huge water filled shell craters.

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 22, 1917:

Western Front

Britain: Lieutenant-General Sir R Maxwell BEF QMG since January 1915 resigns; succeeded by Lieutenant-General Sir T Clarke.
France: General Debeney in command of French First Army for duration of war.
Flanders: Germans storm some British advanced posts on Ypres-Staden rail line, trench raid near (December 29).

Eastern Front

Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations begin.
Rumanian troops occupy Bessarabia. Independent Moldavian Republic proclaimed there on December 23.

Southern Fronts

Salonika: New Allied C-in-C General Guillaumat (aged 54) arrives, reads Milne his instructions pn December 30 to protect Greece, then use her army in offensive.

Air War

Britain: Several Gothas thwarted in raid on southeast England by bad weather (1 Gotha emergency lands south of Margate, burnt by crew), 3 Giants (1 diverts to Boulogne) merely drop bombs in sea off Kent.

Politics

Russia: Bolsheviks peace proposals; Austrian Czernin rejects most on December 25.

Occupied Territories

Belgium: Flanders proclaimed independent.

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Kretaner

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.