Diary March 5, 1917

03-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

A column of Turkish cavalry moves in Palestine to the front.

World War One Diary for Monday, March 5, 1917:

Middle East

Palestine: Kress evacuates Wadi Sheikh Nuran for Gaza-Beersheba line.
Mesopotamia: Maude resumes advance; 13th Hussars’ charge foiled by second trench line.

Eastern Front

Russia: Romanian people of Austrian PoWs in Darnitsa Camp near Kiev sign oath to fight Dual Monarchy.

Neutrals

USA: Wilson’s second term inaugural address ‘We stand fast on an armed neutrality.’
London Ambassador Page cables to US ‘France and England must have … enough credit in the US to prevent collapse of world trade’.

Politics

Austria: Government reply to USA backs U-boat war.
Russia: Lord Milner returns from Petrograd saying ‘it is quite wrong to suppose that in Russia there is any controversy about the waging of the war’.

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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.