Diary for Friday, September 3, 1915: Sea War Germany: Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Bachmann resigned and replaced by Admiral Holtzendorff for advocating unÂrestricted U-boat warfare but both refuse to […]
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Diary for Thursday, September 2, 1915: Home Fronts Russia: Council of Ministers vainly begs Tsar not to replace Grand Duke Nicholas or suspend Duma indefinitely. Britain: King and Kitchener inspect
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Diary for Wednesday, September 1, 1915: Air War Heavy losses to FokÂker E‘s compel French to abanÂdon long-range daylight bombing from NancyÂ-Malzeville; shorter-range operations (Lens and Cambrai areas) continue from
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Diary for Tuesday, August 31, 1915: Southern Fronts Italy: Mussolini called up aged 32, joins 11th Bersaglieri training at Brescia, arrives at front on September 16. Albania: Serb troops at
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Diary for Monday, August 30, 1915: Sea War U-boats ordered not to sink liners without warning and to allow crews and passengers time to abandon ship. No neutral ships to
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Diary for Sunday, August 29, 1915: Western Front Argonne: Fierce artillery duel. Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: NiemeÂnarmee storms Friedrichstadt bridgehead south of river Dvina. Western Russia: Germans storm Lipsk, 20
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Diary for Saturday, August 28, 1915: Eastern Front Ludendorff orders Tenth Army advance on Vilna. Air War France: German air raid on Compiegne. Politics Russia: Foreign and War Ministers say
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Diary for Friday, August 27, 1915: Eastern Front Falkenhayn orders divisions from Mackensen to Danube despite Hindenburg and Ludendorff’s opposition; another 10 divisions follow later. GaliciaÂ: Austrian ‘Black Yellow Offensive’
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Diary for Thursday, August 26, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Gallwitz occupies Bialystok (110 miles (ca. 177 km) northeast of Warsaw), Eichhorn occupies Fort Olita on Niemen. Bugarmee crosses Brest-Kovel road.
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Diary for Wednesday, August 25, 1915: Air War Germany: 62 French bombers (2 lost by anti-aircraft fire) attack Dillingen steelworks near Trier using converted 155Â mm artillery shells. Eastern Front Poland:
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Diary for Tuesday, August 24, 1915: Southern Front Italian Front: Austrian counter-offensive. Sea War East Africa: Royal Navy C-in-C reports 2 planes and 2 guns landed at Mombasa, 150 men
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Diary for Monday, August 23, 1915: Sea War Channel: Dover Patrol monitors shell Zeebrugge and Knocke. Adriatic: German U-boats U34 and U35 reach Cattaro after leaving Heligoland (August 4), sail
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Diary for Sunday, August 22, 1915: Sea War North Sea: 2 French destroyers sink German A15 coastal torpedo boat near Ostend (night August 22-23). Western Front Vosges: French gains include
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Diary for Saturday, August 21, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli, Suvla bridgehead – Battle of Scimitar Hill and Western Hills: 4 British divisions fail to break through, lose 5,300 casualties, but
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Diary for Friday, August 20, 1915: Home Fronts Germany: In Reichstag Liebknecht demands immediate peace talks and votes alone against a new war credit. Britain: Munitions Inventions Department of 20
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Diary for Thursday, August 19, 1915: Sea War Baltic: Submarine E1 torpedoes battlecruiser Moltke in Gulf of Riga, she returns to Kiel at 15 kts. Russian gunboat Sivach sunk. German
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Diary for Wednesday, August 18, 1915: Western Front Vosges: French storm trenches on Ablain-Angres road, but Germans retake it next day. French storm trenches on Schratzmännele crest and take the
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Diary for Tuesday, August 17, 1915: Home Fronts Germany claims 2 million PoWs (330,000 Anglo-FrenchÂ-Belgian). Actually 726,694 Russians (August 10); Austria has 699,254 (September 1). Russia: Special Councils of Defense
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Diary for Monday, August 16, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: All-Party manifesto on National Service. Lloyd George tells War Policy Cabinet Committee ‘The longer you delay, the nearer … disaster’. But
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Diary for Sunday, August 15, 1915: Sea War East Africa: Cruiser HMS Hyacinth shells Tanga. Baltic: Russian cruiser-minelayer Ladoga (ex-Minin) lost on mine of UC4 off Oro Island. North Sea:
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