Diary August 14, 1917

08-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Civilians in the ruins of Termond in Belgium.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 14, 1917:

Eastern Front

Rumania: German Alpenkorps storms Height 334 as Russian VIII Corps flees.

Sea War

Germany: Scheer writes to Navy Minister Capelle urging a ‘political prosecution’ of the USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party) to expose ‘the roots of the evil’ in the Navy.
North Sea: HM Special Service smack Nelson (Crisp posthum Victoria Cross) and trawlers Ethel and Millie sunk in gun duel with U-boat on Jim Hove Bank.
Mediterranean: Allied naval conference at Malta extends Calthorpe’s command to Red Sea and Cape St Vincent. Commander Heneage replaces Kerr in command of Adriatic Force. Rear-Admiral Fremantle replaces Thursby in command of Aegean Sea.

Politics

China: GOVERNMENT DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.
Germany: At Berlin Conference Germans reject Czernin’s peace offer of Poland and Galicia for concessions in West.

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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.

Eastern Front

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