Diary September 28, 1914

09-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

Miracle weapon 'Big Bertha' — The success of the 42-cm M-Gerät (M-device) against the Belgian-French fortifications dissolve in Germany for an unprecedented propaganda campaign. The Big Bertha is celebrated as a ‘Wonder Weapon’.

War Diary of World War One for Monday, September 28, 1914:

Western Front

Belgium: Germans take Malines. German super-heavy howitzers bombard Forts Waelhem and Wavre-Ste Catherine, outer ring of Antwerp, both suffer magazine explosions.

Eastern Front

Poland: New German Ninth Army (Hindenburg) attacks from near Cracow to aid Austrians.
Carpathians: Russians seize Dukla and Uzsok Passes and Krosno; cavalry raid into Hungary.

Southern Fronts

Bosnia: Serbs occupy Vlasenica 40 miles (ca. 64 km) from Sarajevo, but driven back to railway by October 4.

Sea War

South America: Cradock searches Magellan Straits for Spee.

Politics

USA: President Wilson‘s note to Britain stresses blockade’s evil effects on US public opinion.

Home Fronts

Russia: Shell production 35,000 pieces per month, expenditure 45,000 pieces per day. A 2 million shell order is reduced to 800,000 for September.

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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.