Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 17, 1919: France – Peace Process: Austrian counter-proposal. Wilson leaves Paris for Brussels. German Versailles delegates stoned by Berliners. North Russia: 7 RAF […]

World War One Diary for Monday, June 16, 1919: France – Peace Process: Final Allied reply to German objections requires acceptance in 5 days; early League of Nations membership, Upper

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 15, 1919: Northwest Russia: Around this date Red deserters swell White Northern Corps to 25,000 men, becomes Northwest Army.

World War One Diary for Saturday, June 14, 1919: Britain: FIRST NON-STOP ATLANTIC FLIGHT (Alcock and Brown, until June 15) with a modified Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John’s (Newfoundland)

World War One Diary for Friday, June 13, 1919: South Russia: ­Wrangel’s Caucasus Volunteer Army (mainly cavalry and element of Denikins forces) attacks Tsaritsyn (until June 15) but Red defences

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 12, 1919: South Russia: ­Denikin recognizes Kolchak as White Supreme Ruler, in speech at farewell dinner for British Military Mission chief Lieutenant-General Briggs.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 11, 1919: Czechoslovakia: Hungarian Red Army advancing victori­ously in Slovakia. USA: Irish Sinn Fein leader de Valera arrives in New York on visit.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 10, 1919: France – Peace Process: Austria protests at Allied terms. Baltic States: Estonians take Jakobstadt and Kreutzburg on river Dvina. North Russia:

World War One Diary for Monday, June 9, 1919: Siberia: Red 25th Rifle Division captures Ufa with many supplies and much grain after surprise river Belaia crossing (June 7). By

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 8, 1919: France – Peace Process: Count Brockdorff-Rantzau returns to Versailles. Allies request Hungarian Communist leader Bela Kun to stop attacking Czechoslovakia and

World War One Diary for Saturday, June 7, 1919: Nothing much to report.

World War One Diary for Friday, June 6, 1919: Finland: Government declares war on Soviet Russia, but of little practical effect.

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 5, 1919: France – Peace Process: Paderewski heard on Polish frontiers. Austro-Yugoslav armistice. North Russia: First Lake Onega flotilla action. Siberia: General Gadja’s

World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 4, 1919: South Russia: Trotsky assures Kharkov, in no more danger than any other city including Moscow. Siberia: Red Fifth Army drives Kolchack’s

World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 3, 1919: France – Peace Process: Germany protests vs French support for newly-independent Rhineland Republic. Britain: Asquith answers Lord French on 1915 shell

World War One Diary for Monday, June 2, 1919: Baltic States: Royal Navy occupy Bjorko Sound on Finnish coast (with permission), 30 miles northwest of Kronstadt. Red destroyer Gavriil sinks

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 1, 1919: Russia: Red Army High Command estimates 657,000 foes including Poles and Finns (latter 100,000 men of which 25,000 north of Petrograd)

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 31, 1919: USA – Aviation: First Transatlantic air crossing completed at Plymouth by USN Curtiss NC4 flying-boat from Rockaway, New York (left May

World War One Diary for Friday, May 30, 1919: France – Peace Process: – Yugoslavia rejects ‘Tardieu Compromise’ Fiume buffer state proposals (League of Nations mandate). Britain agrees to transfer

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 29, 1919: Hungary­: Anti-Soviet rising in southwest suppressed (until June 2). General Szombathelyi joins anti-Soviet government (C-in-C Admiral Horthy) at Arad. France –