Diary January 4, 1915

01-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Turkish cavalrymen in Caucasus — Turkish cavalrymen operating against the Russians in the Caucasus at a field camp.

War Diary World War One for Monday, January 4, 1915:

Middle East

Armenia – Battle of Sarikamish ends: Turkish IX Corps destroyed; 1,200 PoWs including Ihsan Pasha, 30 guns and 20 MGs.

Western Front

Flanders: French advance near Nieuport.
Alsace: Whole of Steinbach now in French hands.

Sea War

Adriatic: Austrian Admiral Haus proposes using new Light cruiser Novara (completed on January 10) to run 300t munitions to Smyrna (for Dardanelles), but scheme abortive (until April 12).
North Sea: British submarines C31 and E10 lost (on January 4 resp. 18, causes unknown).
Black Sea: Russian cruiser Pamiat Merkurya damages Turk cruiser Hamidieh west of Sinope.

Secret War

Italy: Austrian Rome military attaché reports Italian Army will be ready for war end March.

Home Fronts

Britain: Fisher withdraws resignation over Zeppelin threat.
London Stock Exchange reopens.

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Kretaner

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.