Diary September 5, 1917

09-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Berlin 1917: the public parks lose their flowerbeds and take on the appearance of allotments. All food is desperately scarce.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 5, 1917:

Home Fronts

Russia: Grand Dukes Michael and Paul arrested.
USA: Federal agents raid IWW offices in 23 cities (168 arrests). 687,000 draftees begin assembling by rail.
Turkey: Army Commissariat put in command of civilian food. Farmers ordered to till c.7 acres for each yoke of oxen and work 8 hours per day (September 27). Large landowners exempted from military service.

Western Front

Cambrai: First 2 US soldiers killed by shellfire, 11th Engineers repairing railway near Gouzeacourt.

Middle East

Palestina: Falkenhayn decides to deploy Kemal’s Seventh Army for Palestine Yilderim offensive. He inspects Front September 9-10.

Sea War

North Sea: U-88 sunk by Royal Navy Heligoland Bight mines off Terschelling, with her commander Schwieger, having sunk Lusitania among 49 ships worth 183,838t.

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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.