Diary January 14, 1917

01-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Q ships — Q-ships are posing as unarmed merchantmen and shelling unwary U-boats with their concealed guns.

World War One Diary for Sunday, January 14, 1917:

Sea War

Channel: Q-ship Penshurst makes her second kill, coastal submarine UB-37.
North Sea: Beatty concentrates Grand Fleet for wide sweep and exercises especially in night shooting.

Eastern Front

Russian Army now 6,900,000 men strong.
Rumania: Falkenhayn repulsed northeast of Focsani (January 13-14), but takes Nanesti on January 19 and Fundeni on January 20.

Occupied countries

Poland: Provisional Council of State first meets; Prince Niemoyovski appointed Regent by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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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.

Sea War

Eastern Front

Occupied countries

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