Diary January 29, 1916

01-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Mother's trials — ‘Mother’ shows her paces in Poppleton’s Field, Lincoln.

Diary for Saturday, January 29, 1916:

Secret War

Britain: Mother prototype tank begins successful trials.

Western Front

Somme: German Second Army success northeast of Dampierre.

Eastern Front

Alexeiev (Russian Chief of Staff) to Admiral Eberhardt (Black Sea Fleet): ‘… we have no right … to disperse our troops … to … tasks … secondary even if appreciable in themselves, in remote theatres of war’.
Pripet and Bukovina: Renewed fighting, Austrians claim success.

Southern Fronts

Corfu: 5,400 Serbs die from retreat hardships until April 30.

Air War

France: Second and last Zeppelin raid on Paris causes 54 casualties, last air raid until January 1918.

Politics

France: Anglo-French Munitions Conference.

Home Fronts

Russia: Premiere of Prokofiev’s ‘Scythian Suite‘, Petrograd.

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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.