Diary December 14, 1917

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

Italian PoWs in an Austro-Hungarian transit camp.

World War One Diary for Friday, December 14, 1917:

Southern Fronts

Piave: Austrian 4th Divison takes Col Captile on Brenta valley side but shell shortage postpones exploitation.

Sea War

Naval Allied Council to be formed (ministers and CNSs).
Ionian Sea: UC-38 (Wendlandt) sinks French cruiser Chateaurenault (10 lives lost, 1162 saved including 985 troops for Salonika) in Gulf of Patras off Cephalonia. UC-38 (also sinker of 36 merchant ships worth 52,525t) then depth charged and sunk by convoy escort destroyers Mameluk and Lansquenet.

Home Fronts

Turkey: Single members of ‘Society for Finding Employment for Women’ (c.15,000 members) must marry or lose job (those eligible listed in press see February 9, 1918).
Britain: Home Office and MI5 decide not to prosecute in 41 subversion cases. Local butter and margarine rationing begins. In December local tea rationing begins (1 1/2 oz per head per week), affects 17.5 million people.

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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

Sea War

Home Fronts

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