Diary December 13, 1917

12-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Italian propaganda after Caporetto — After the defeat of Caporetto, the Italian propaganda tries with ‘Soldiers Forward’ to highlight the national defense.

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 13, 1917:

Southern Fronts

Italy: After Austrian Czernin status quo peace hint from December 5, Prime Minister Orlando tells deputies in secret session Italy will fight on even if armies have to fall back to Sicily.

Eastern Front

Brest-Litovsk armistice negotiations resume.

Sea War

North Sea: U-75 sunk in mine nets off Terschelling (she had mined HMS Hampshire and drowned Lord Kitchener).
Adriatic: 3 Austrian destroyers sortie against Valona-Otranto route but sight 4 Allied ones and retire (night December 13-14).
Eastern Mediterranean: French ship Paris II sunk at Adalia (Anatolia).

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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.

Southern Fronts

Eastern Front

Sea War

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