Diary October 20, 1915

10-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Alpini in the Dolomites — Italian Alpini mountain troops trek through the Dolomites.

Diary for Wednesday, October 20, 1915:

Southern Fronts

Dolomites: Italian 17th Division captures Cima Layazuoi and secures Cima Falzarego.

Western Front

Champagne: German gas attack east of Reims.

Eastern Front

Hindenburg’s HQ moves from Lötzen to Kovno.
Galicia: Russian general Ivanov takes 7,500 PoWs near Tarnopol and about the same on October 30.

Middle East

Gallipoli: Churchill memo urges gas helmets be sent as large German gas stocks reported (falsely) to have reached Constantinople; also urges use of gas against Muslims.

Politics

Britain: Government abolishes London Declarations’s Article 57 (ship’s nationality denoted by flag).

Home Fronts

Italy: New taxes and increases for duration of war.
Britain: Women bus and tram conductors permitted. (First two in Glasgow following April).
Lord Cecil abolishes press censorship of foreign affairs, subject to DORA (British ‘Defence of the Real Act’)
South Africa: Botha wins the general election.

About The Author

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.