Diary June 15, 1917

06-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Friday, June 15, 1917:

Southern Fronts

Trentino: Austrian attack in Mt Ortigara sector at 0230 hours eventually fails (1,000 PoWs lost).
Salonika: In these days Turk 50th Division withdrawn from east of Struma home, to Aleppo. 1 Turk regiment left in theatre.

Western Front

Flanders: German counter-attack southeast of Ypres repulsed.
Artois: Small British advance near Bullecourt.

Sea War

North Atlantic: 35 Royal Navy destroyers and 15 submarines on special hunting operation (until June 24) north of Scotland sight U-boats 61 times, make 12 attacks, but inflict no damage.
Baltic: Rear-Admiral Dmitri N Verderevski made C-in-C by Kerensky. Maksimov becomes STAVKA (CNS) aged 44, but some crews press for elected commanders.

Home Fronts

Germany: Hindenburg note to Bethmann blames inflation on ‘The monstrous increase of worker wages’.
USA: Espionage Act including fines up to $10,000 and up to 20 years jail; 2 anarchists arrested for disrupting registration. Congress votes $ 3,281 million for Army and Navy.

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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.