Diary January 16, 1918

01-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

General starve: helping out by the military with field kitchens in many cities of the Central Powers.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 16, 1918:

Home Fronts

Austria: General strikes until January 21 over daily bread ration cut (7 1/2 oz to under 6oz) and Brest-Litovsk impasse involve nearly 100,000 workers in Lower Austria alone and Government taken by surprise. Spreads to Hungary on January 18.
USA: Fuel Administrator closes all non-war industry east of Mississippi for 5 days (January 18-22) plus nine Mondays to save moving coal.
Germany: Hindenburg letter removes Kaiser’s radical Civil Cabinet chief (for past 10 years) Valentini (who protests to Crown Prince).
Britain: Board of Trade and Munitions Ministry allowed to drill for oil.

Eastern Front

Brest-Litovsk: Central Powers and Ukraine reach settlement in principle (announced January 21).
Russia: CEC (Central Executive Committee of Bolshevik) adopts decree forming Red Army.

Southern Fronts

Piave: Austrian attack on Capo Sile (lower river) fails bloody, Italians occupy Austrian advance post on January 24 and repulse attack on January 26.

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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.

Home Fronts

Eastern Front

Southern Fronts

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