Diary December 5, 1918

12-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 5, 1918:

Southern Fronts

Balkans: War Office informs General Milne that British forces remain under Franchet d’Esperey’s general control excluding troops sent to eastern end of Black Sea.
Adriatic: Italians complete occupation of Dalmatian coast.

Africa

East Africa: Lettow’s troops arrive at Kigoma to generous Belgian reception before boarding train (flu caught en route); Askaris held at Tabora Camp until repatriation.

Sea War

Baltic: Cruiser HMS Cassandra mined and sunk.
Home Waters: Admiral Bayly makes last Queenstown (Irish Command) report. Q-ships Suffolk Coast and Hyderabad open to the public in river Thames.

Politics

Britain: Lloyd George says Kaiser must be prosecuted by an international court.
France: King Albert visits Paris. British representatives at Versailles call for Europe to abolish conscription.
Germany: Government hands back 300 million gold francs extracted under Brest-Litovsk Treaty.

Home Fronts

France: Alsace-Lorraine Diet convened as National Assembly to announce formal return of French rule.
USA: Congress asked for Allied credit extension for one year.
Britain: Potato crop (4,209,000t) 25% upon 1917.

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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.