Diary June 12, 1915

06-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

An Austria-Hungarian soldier with an AA-MG on the Isonzo front.

Diary for Saturday, June 12, 1915:

Southern Fronts

Carnic Alps: Italians occupy two passes and repel Austrian attacks on June 25.
Isonzo: Italians attack Hill 383 seven times.

Eastern Front

Poland: Gas aids Germans advance almost 4 miles (6.44 km) on river Bzura despite 350 own gas casualties.

Middle East

Mesopotamia: Nixon asks for more aircraft (2 RFC Egypt flights allotted by June 30), also more medical personnel. Townshend reaches Bombay for sick leave (July 11) after falling victim like 1,100 of his men at Amara.

African Fronts

Cameroons: 200 Germans capture Allied food convoy. Dobell cables War Office that sickness and rainy season will preclude large operations till November, suggests starving out Germans. War Office agrees on June 15. Allies withdraw 12 miles (ca. 19 km) to Wumbiagas, repel Germans from there and So Dibanga (June 14-15).

Politics

Britain: Government informs Germany via US Ambassador that U-boat PoWs now treated as ordinary ones.

Neutrals

USA: By now film Guarding Old Glory released.

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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.