Diary May 23, 1918

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

‘UB-52’ sunk on the way back to Cattaro.

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 23, 1918:

Sea War

Adriatic: Royal Navy submarine H4 sinks returning coastal submarine UB-52 40 miles south of Cattaro.
Channel: British AMC Moldavia escorting convoy HC1 carrying US troops (only 64 lost) sunk by U-boat.

Eastern Front

Britain: War Cabinet decides to send 560-man military mission to Archangel to train Whites and 600 troops to Murmansk; they decide large scale intervention inevitable on May 29.
USSR: Factory delegates in Moscow call for strike against Soviet Government.

Secret War

Russia: Lockhart sends Foreign Office Savinkov plan ‘to murder all Bolshevik leaders on night of Allied landing and form a Government … in reality a military dictatorship’.

Middle East

Armenia: Silikov retakes Sardarabad and drives Turk 11th Division 30 miles north until May 24 while other Armenian units drive Turk vanguard back to Amamli.

Politics

Costa Rica: Government declares war on Germany.

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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.