Diary May 6, 1917

05-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 6, 1917:

Western Front

Aisne: French Reserve Army Group dissolved, Micheler takes over Fifth Army from Mazel.
Artois: British repulse counter-attack near river Souchez.

Air War

Britain – First night aeroplane raid on London: Albatros CVII (Klimke and Leon) on own initiative drops 5 x 22lb bombs between Holloway and Hackney (night May 6-7, 3 casualties).

Politics

Austria: Common Ministers Council agrees to reopen Mitteleuropa (Central Europe) talks with Germany (Berlin owed RM 6 billions). Emperor says ‘I do not agree at all’ (May 14).
Russia: Kiev Czech congress recognises Masaryk and Czech National Council.

Neutrals

Greece: Salonika mass meeting of 30,000 demands King’s deposition. Salonika plot to murder Venizelos discovered on May 10.

About The Author

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.