Diary November 16, 1917

11-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

A patrol of German lancers in Palestine.

World War One Diary for Friday, November 16, 1917:

Middle East

Palestine: NZ Mounted Brigade occupies Jaffa and Australian Mounted Division Latrun. Turk Eighth Army behind river Auja to north.

Sea War

North Sea: Royal Navy K1 steam submarine has to be sunk after colliding with K4 in Grand Fleet sweep.
France: Clemenceau appoints Georges Leygues Marine Minister for duration of war.
Adriatic: 2 old Austrian battleships and 14 torpedo-boats shell Italian Cortellazzo coast guns near Piave mouth. Italian 15-inch gun monitor Alfredo Cappellini wrecked off Ancona.

Secret War

Russia: Bolshevik Vorovski in Stockholm telegrams Berlin ‘Please fulfill your promise immediately’ (ie more funds for peace talks).

Home Fronts

France: Clemenceau new French Prime Minster and War Minister, Pichon Foreign Minister.
Brazil: War law especially against domestic German interests. State of siege in capital and six states, c.700 aliens (mainly German reservists) arrested.
Britain: Chairmen of Air Board Lord Cowdray resigns, Lord Rothermere succeeds on November 26.
USA: Enemy alien registration required, 600,000 affected, expelled from Washington and barred from military places (over 200,000 investigated).

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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.