Diary September 8, 1918

09-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 8, 1918:

Western Front

France: Foch visits King Albert and Haig (who tells Churchill ‘the Allies should aim at getting a decision as soon as possible’), decides to add Flanders offensive.
Germany: OHL orders signals concerning tanks be given priority. German writer and poet Lieutenant Bernhard von der Marwitz (relative of army commander) dies of wounds aged 28 at Valenciennes Lazarett.
Aisne: US III Corps transferred from the Vesle (crossed September 4) to Souilly.
Meuse: Ludendorff orders St Mihiel salient evacuation. Allied PoW haul since August 8 are 150,000 Germans; 2,000 guns and 13,000 MGs.

Eastern Front

Russia: White state conference of 170 delegates at Ufa in Western Urals (until September23), welcomes Allied Vladivostok landings on September 12.
USSR: Neutral diplomats protest vs Red Terror. Soviet-Allied agreement on diplomat exchange.

Africa

Mozambique: Captain Koehl’s rearguard skirmishes with Shortcol at Milweberg.

Middle East

Palestine: Turk ration strength 103,500 soldiers.

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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.