Diary November 7, 1914

11-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

German PoW's in Japan — The German POW’s from Tsingtao in December 1914 at Japan.

War Diary of World War One for Saturday, November 7, 1914:

Far East

Tsingtao: Fall of the city. Ceasefire after Japanese storm redoubts before Forts Bismarck and Moltke. 4 German gunboats and sloop Cormoran scuttled.

Western Front

Flanders: Fierce attack on British positions at Givenchy. Germans regain Lombartzyde. First Territorials (London Scottish) reinforce BEF, 22 battalions and 6 Yeomanry regiments by mid-December.
Artois: Heavy fighting at Arras.

Eastern Front

East Prussia: Otto Below replaces Francois as C-in-C German Eighth Army.

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Austrian Sixth Army drives Serb Third Army off Guchevo ridge and forces Serb First and Uzice Armies back up to 4 miles (6.44 km) in south.

Middle East

Armenia: Battles of Köprüköy (until November 12) and Azap (until November 20). Russian advance on Erzerum blocked

African Fronts

South Africa: Smuts reviews motor brigade at Johannesburg. Loyal troops take Beyers’ Gruis Drift camp and 350 men. Rebel Major Kemp’s 700 men beaten from Kuriman, Bechuanaland.
Cameroons: German company takes British frontier post at Danare and ambushes patrol near Abunorok on November 12.

Politics

Turkey declares war on Belgium.
Britain: Government refuses US demand to restrict right of search to high seas.

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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.