Diary January 9, 1916

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

Two subaltern officers of Austro-German troops on the Balkans.

Diary for Sunday, January 9, 1916:

Southern Fronts

Montenegro: Austrians storm 4850ft Mt Lovcen (‘the Gibraltar of the Adriatic’); Montenegrins retreat 12 miles to capital Cetinje and begin talks for soon-agreed local truce.

Western Front

Champagne: German attacks east and west of Butte de Massiges. French line penetrated at number of points (including Butte du Mesnil and Mt Tetu), ground partially regained on January 10-11.

Middle East

Mesopotamia: Turks retreat to Wadi, British occupy Sheikh Saad. Goltz replaces Nureddin with Khalil Pasha.
Egypt: Sir A Murray succeeds Monro (leaves January 11) as C-in-C MEF.

African Fronts

Cameroons: Main German force (2,500 men) retreating on Ebolowa, aiming for Spanish Muni. Captain Stein returns 214 Allied PoWs to British on river Nyong.
East Africa, Coast: Wavell’s 80 Arab soldiers defeated at Mkongani but British drive 3 German coys from Ngurungani following day.

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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.