Diary May 2, 1918

05-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

German troops arrest suspected Bolsheviks.

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 2, 1918:

Eastern Front

Don: Cossacks cable Kaiser for help against Bolsheviks.
Finland: Red Western Army collapses, 20,000 PoWs; 50 guns and 200 MGs.

Southern Fronts

Italy: Foch’s authority extended to Italian Front.

Sea War

Atlantic: U-boat sinks transport Tuscania (211 of 2,400 US troops lost) 7 miles north of Rathlin island.
Channel: Dover Barrage sinks coastal submarine UB-31 and on May 8 also UC-78.

Home Fronts

Germany: Prussian Landtag votes 235-183 against equal suffrage; pro-equal suffrage meetings banned on May 25.
USA: Montana bans German language teaching and textbooks, half states curtail German by summer, much book burning.

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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.