Diary February 18, 1916

02-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Friday, February 18, 1916:

Air War

Austria – First long-distance Italian bombing raid: Caproni bombers drop almost 4,000 lb bombs on Laibach in retaliation for Austrian raid on Milan (February 14).

Southern Fronts

Italian Front: Italian advance in Collo zone.

Middle East

Arabia: Sherif letter to Cairo says time needed to prepare rebellion, requests £50,000 for food and rifles (British approve on March 10).

African Fronts

North Cameroons – END OF CAMPAIGN: Mora surrenders (Captain Raben’s 156 men with 4 MGs).
Uganda: 30 police repulse 80 Germans (59 casualties) at Kachumbe and take an MG without loss; 170 British surprise and burn German Dwakitiku post on February 22.

Sea War

China: Royal Navy cruiser removes 38 Central Powers’ nationals from US SS China at Yangtze entrance; released on May 13.

Home Fronts

France: Government wins confidence vote.

About The Author

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.