12-1918

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 31, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Vorwaerts publishes draft German constitution. Landsturm demobilized and dissolved. USA: War Industries and Railroad Board dissolved. Britain: 288,438 […]

World War One Diary for Monday, December 30, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: German Communist Party founded. Eastern Front North Russia: Allies take Kadish. Siberia: Kolchak takes Birsk. Politics Britain: Wilson

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 29, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Majority Socialist demo in Berlin vs Spartacists, but 3 Independ­ent Socialists leave Government. France: Liberated Districts Ministry formed.

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 28, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: 3 Commissars (USPD) resign but replaced by SPDs. BRITISH GENERAL ELEC­TION RESULTS: Government Coalition 478 seats (Tory 384;

World War One Diary for Friday, December 27, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Lenin writes to Chicherin urging Berlin or Holland conference to found Third Communist International by February 1, 1919

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 26, 1918: Eastern Front Baltic States: 2 Royal Navy cruisers and 3 destroyers capture Red destroyers Spartak and Avrotil (until December 27) after

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 25, 1918: Eastern Front Urals: General Pepelyayev’s White Siberian Corps of General Gadja’s Northern Army (Kolchak) captures and loots Perm (province capital and

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 24, 1918: Middle East North Syria: 28th Indian Brigade (7th Division) occupies Killis and Aintab, north of Aleppo, and Baghdad Railway. Home Fronts

World War One Diary for Monday, December 23, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Spartacists and Marines seize Berlin Chancery but Government troops eject with 29 killed until December 24. Western Front

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 22, 1918: Eastern Front Georgia: British brigade (from Salonika Army) lands at Batumi to link with Baku garrison as Armenian vs Georgian fighting

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 21, 1918: Home Fronts Czechoslovakia­: President Masaryk arrives in Prague (inaugurated December 22). Britain: Children’s sugar rations increased (manufactur­ers allowance doubled on December

World War One Diary for Friday, December 20, 1918: Eastern Front General Borius’ 1,800 French African troops (156th Colonial Division) land at Odessa. Petlura’s Ukrainians capture Kiev and end Skovopadski’s

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 19, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Haig and his 5 army commanders return to London. Sir E Geddes made Coordinator for Army demobili­zation. Military

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 18, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Berlin Conference decides on Ebert Provisional Government pending National Assembly elections (fixed for January 19, 1919). Britain: Information

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 17, 1918: Western Front British occupation of Cologne bridgehead and US occupation of Koblenz bridgehead completed, 40 Allied divisions deployed. Eastern Front Latvia

World War One Diary for Monday, December 16, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Conference of Workers and Soldiers Councils at Berlin (until December 20), 450 deputies. Britain: Demobilization scheme for Army

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 15, 1918: Home Fronts Germany­: People’s Party programme. Austria: Emperor Charles ill at with flu at Eckartsau (all his 5 children too). Eastern

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 14, 1918: Home Fronts Britain – GENERAL (THE ‘KHAKI’ OR ‘COUPON’) ELECTION, first since 1910 (results on December 28 to allow forces’ votes

World War One Diary for Friday, December 13, 1918: Politics France: President Wilson lands at Brest, arrives Paris on December 14 (receives freedom of city on December 16). Britain: Lloyd

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 12, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Republican Guard formed. Britain: Men over 41 called up in 1918 to be demobilized. Horseflesh prices fixed due