Diary November 16, 1918

11-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Marshal Josef Pilsudski (seated) is the first head of state from independent Poland,

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 16, 1918:

Eastern Front

POLAND DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: President General Pilsudski, Poles demand Posen’s surrender.
Ukraine: German evacuation begins.
Finland: German troops (4 divisions) leave (until December 16).
Rumania: White Russian politicians at Jassy approve Allied landings in South Russia and claim pre-1914 frontiers (excluding Poland).
Baltic States: New Latvian National Government under Prime Minister Poska, Estonia orders general mobilization.

Western Front

ALLIED ARMIES OF OCCUPATION BEGIN MARCH INTO GERMANY.

Africa

Rhodesia: Lettow’s column marches through KAR camp; Lettow declines lunch invitation for him and all his officers. (1/4th KAR follows for Abercorn on November 17).

Politics

POLAND AND HUNGARY DECLARE INDEPENDENCE, Karolyi elected President of Hungarian People’s Republic. Hungarian Bolshevik Bela Kun arrives from Moscow on forged passport and founds Communist Party (November 24).

Home Fronts

Britain: Lloyd George london speech opens election campaign.
Rumania: 1 man 1 vote decreed.

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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.