Diary October 25, 1917

10-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

An Italian trench unit is captured by Austrians. Italian fighting morale reached its lowest point.

World War One Diary for Thursday, October 25, 1917:

Southern Fronts

Isonzo: Austro-German pincers close behind Mt Nero. Lieutenant Rommel’s Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion from Alpenkorps seizes Mts Kuk and Cragonza on Kolovrat Ridge with 3,600 Italian PoWs including 4th Bersaglieri Brigade. Austrian 22nd Division seizes Stol Ridge (night October 25-26). Fourteenth Army now has 30,000 PoWs and 300 guns and Second Isonzo Army (over 1,000 casualties) division takes c.4,000 PoWs and 60 guns on Bainsizza. Cadorna refuses Capello’s advice to retreat to river Torre and possibly Tagliamento after General Montuori says at 2100 hours attack can be held.
Salonika: British 27th Division (77 casualties) captures three villages east of river Struma taking 106 PoWs and 1 MG but main garrisons escape.

Politics

Italy: Prime Minister Boselli and Cabinet resign (Orlando succeeds on October 29).
Anglo-French Military Service Convention.

Neutrals

Norway: Polar explorer Amundsen returns his three German decorations because of 17 Norwegian sailors’ deaths in North Sea on October 17, 1917.

Western Front

Aisne: French capture Filain in closing up to river Aillette and Oise Canal; they take 11,157 PoWs; 200 guns; 222 mortars; 720 MGs by October 26 for 12,000 casualties.

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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.