Diary October 2, 1914

10-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

German troops advance during the fightings on the Western Front.

War Diary of World War One for Friday, October 2, 1914:

Western Front

Near Arras Maud’huy is under heavy pressure from 3 German corps until October 6.
Sir J French reports to King George ‘.. the spade will be as great a necessity as the rifle…the heaviest…artillery’.
Antwerp: Fort Koningshoyckt and Lierre abandoned. Germans take Termonde.

Eastern Front

East Prussian Frontier: Russians recover Mariampol.

Southern Fronts

Bosnia: Serb-Montenegrin threat to Sarajevo revived till October 4.

Secret War

Ireland: First German wartime spy Karl Lody arrested. Trial begins October 30.

Home Fronts

Britain: Admiral Lord Beresford in Aberdeen recruiting speech says ‘All alien enemies should be locked up!’. Kitchener recalls Sir A Keogh as DG Army Medical Services.

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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.