Diary January 25, 1915

01-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

The car of one of the older Parseval airships, which made their first flights in May 1906.

War Diary World War One for Monday, January 25, 1915:

Air War

Baltic: German Navy Parseval airship PL 19 shot down by Russian anti-aircraft fire during bombing raid on Libau.

Western Front

Flanders – First Action of Givenchy: British 1st Division repulse an attack. French stand firm near Ypres.
Aisne: German advance on Craonne plateau.
Champagne: Germans attack at 4 points around Hill 200 near Perthes. Joffre agrees next day to postpone the French attack until drier weather.
Alsace: Fog impedes operations.

Eastern Front

East Prussia: By now Russian Twelfth Army forming to invade East Prussia from south. The advances from northeast are at Pillkallen area and on Tilsit on January 29.

Sea War

Baltic: Russian submarine torpedoes German cruiser Gazelle off Rügen, but towed to harbor. Russian submarine sinks German torpedo boat off Cap Moen, Denmark on January 29.

Neutrals

Romania: Government refuses to join Greece supporting Serbia.
USA: Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call.

Occupied countries

Belgium: Germans seize metal stocks

Home Fronts

Germany: Government decree seizes all grain and flour stocks from February 1.

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.