Diary October 10, 1915

10-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

German cavalry at Serbia — Advance of German cavalry into Serbia.

Diary for Sunday, October 10, 1915:

Southern Fronts

Serbia: German III Corps (Lochow) takes Semendria (October 10-11) on Danube after losing 45 of 53 boats (night October 7-8) but securing bridgehead to east and unaffected by Royal Navy torpedo tubes (damaged by shelling).

Western Front

Artois: Slight French gains in Souchez valley; Givenchy-en-Gohelle Wood and near La Folie.
Champagne: Slight French gains until October 12.

Eastern Front

Western Russia: Russians forced back northwest of Dvinsk and southwest of Pinsk, take Garbunovka (9 miles from Dvinsk on October 19).

Middle East

Gallipoli: MEF strength 114,087; establishment 200,540 soldiers against 17 Turk divisions.

Air War

Western Front: 6 Royal Flying Corps crews encounter Fokker E fighters.

Politics

Greece: Government refuses Serbia’s appeal for help; Bucharest Treaty from 1913 should be irrelevant.

Home Fronts

Germany: Poet Rilke writes from Munich, ‘Can no-one prevent it and stop it ?’
Russia: Lenin letter, ‘News from Russia testifies to the growing revolutionary mood’.

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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.