Diary July 18, 1917

07-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Russian PoWs move with their machine guns towards collecting points.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, July 18, 1917:

Eastern Front

Western Russia – Battle of Dvinsk (until July 25): German Armeeabteilung D (Kirchbach) repels Denikin’s West Front.

Sea War

Mediterranean: French tell Greek Minister of Marine, Fleet to be returned in batches, first cruiser Helle, 4 destroyers and torpedo boat by August 13.
Italy: Vice-Admiral Del Bono Minister of Marine for duration of war.
Baltic: 2 destroyers sail from Helsinki with 100-strong delegations supporting ‘July Days Rising’; both arrested. Kerensky condemns Fleet’s disloyalty (July 20) and appoints Destroyer Division Commander, Captain Alexander V Razvozov, Rear-Admiral and C-in-C, aged 38 (July 20) after cashiering the hapless Verderevski. Centrobalt dissolved on July 23 temporarily.

Home Fronts

Russia: Officer Cadets smash Pravda offices, Lenin goes into hiding and fears assassination.
Austria: Arz memo says only Rumanian food imports sustaining Monarchy till new harvest.

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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.

Eastern Front

Sea War

Home Fronts

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