Diary September 27, 1915

09-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

German six-inch howitzers are moved as reinforcements on the Western Front.

Diary for Monday, September 27, 1915:

Western Front

Loos: British pushed back in cold and rain between Fosse 8 and Hohenzollern Redoubt but Guards Division storms Pit 14 and chalk pits, recaptures Hill 70. German reserves stabilize French sector.
Champagne: French before German second line on a 6-mile front, but resistance growing.
Argonne: French repulse German attack.

Eastern Front

Baltic Provinces: Niemenarmee beaten at Eckau (Riga).

Middle East

Mesopotamia: British Chief Political Officer Cox ‘Baghdad is within our grasp … without reinforcing our troops’.

African Fronts

North Cameroons: – Nigerian troops surprise German Gandua outpost.
Chad: French administrator denounces Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur (Sudan) for Senussi and Turco-German intrigues; Anglo-French collaboration from November.

Sea War

Adriatic: Italian battleship Benedetto Brin destroyed by Austrian saboteurs at Brindisi (595 casualties including 456 dead with Rear Admiral Baron de Cervin).

Politics

Greece: Venizelos gets King’s consent to Allied landings at Salonika.

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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.