Diary December 8, 1918

12-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Henri-Philippe Petain (1856-1951) as Marshal of France.

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 8, 1918:

Western Front

British 1st Cavalry Division reaches Rhine on broad front and secures crossings. AEF enters Koblenz. Petain ceremonially created Marshal of France at Metz before Joffre, Allied C-in-Cs and representatives. Poincare presents baton. Petain French C-in-C till February 1920. King George V visits Ypres.

Middle East

Turkey: Allied Military Administration set up in Constantinople.
Aden: British reoccupy Lahej and over 2.500 Turks surrender until December 15; 4,100 more by March 1, 1919, but 800 take most arms and ammo to Imam of Yemen at Sana and enter his service (including Gouverneur-General Mahmoud Nadim Bey).

Africa

East Africa: Lettow and his officers arrive at Dares-Salaam by train, Lettow finds everyone ‘extraordinarily kind’. Deventer invites him, Schnee and Major Kraut to lunch.

Politics

Sweden and Switzerland sever relations with Russia.

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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.