Diary February 14, 1918

02-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Thursday, February 14, 1918:

Eastern Front

USSR – RED ARMY FORMED (Decree published on February 23): Volunteer force, commanders to get 4 months basic training at four cities.

Middle East

Palestine: British XX Corps prelim 2-mile advance on 6-mile front occupies two villages northeast of Jerusalem.

Secret War

Western Mediterranean: U-35 lands 2 agents and 12 cases of anthrax germs (immediately seized) off Cartagena, Spain.

Politics

Canada: Death of British Ambassador to Washington Sir Cecil Spring-Rice at Ottawa. Lord Reading (arrived February 11) succeeds.

About The Author

Kretaner

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.