Diary October 7, 1917

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

Women and children plowing in France. Agriculture was back in pre-industrial times, while research and technology were on high-speed for warfare.

World War One Diary for Sunday, October 7, 1917:

Home Fronts

France: Scantiest harvest for 50 years announced.

Western Front

Ypres: German attack near Reutel. Steady rain falling. Haig refuses Plumer and Gough’s request to close down Ypres offensive.
Champagne: French repulse big raiding party.
Aisne: French (Maistre) attack Chemin des Dames and clear Germans from road after month-long series of bloody localized actions. Attack and counterattack fail round Craoone on October 8.

Southern Fronts

Trentino: Austrian attack on Mt Costabella repulsed (and on October 12). Cadorna visits Mt Grappa defences (begun 1916) between Piave and Brenta.
Salonika: Brigade-General Corkran arrives to be CIGS representative with Serbian Army.

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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.

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