Diary November 25, 1915

11-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Thursday, November 25, 1915:

Middle East

Mesopotamia – Townshend begins retreat after air reconnaissance reports Turks returning.
Gallipoli: Monro becomes C-in-C MEF, Birdwood GOC Dardanelles Army.

Western Front

Grenade fighting during night on some sectors in Artois and Lorraine.

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Putnik issues last order on home soil ‘Convince your troops that this retreat is a national necessity … our salvation will come when our allies carry all before them in the final victory’.

Sea War

Aegean: 6 Allied battleships, 2 cruisers, c.30 light craft anchor at Melos Island as act of gunboat diplomacy against Greece (the 3 British battleships sail for Dardanelles on December 12).

Secret War

Switzerland: Tentative German-Belgian talks in Zürich.

Home Fronts

France: First Victory Loan, yields Fr 13.3bn (£580m) since November 16.
Britain: Rent Restrictian Act pegs rents at prewar levels for duration of war plus 6 months. Munitions Ministry takes control of all military research.

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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.