January 31, 1918

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1918, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Three Mountains, Berlin, Germany, Italy, strike, Wilhelm Dittmann

Austrian counter-attacks on Monte di Val Bella repulsed. Disturbances in Berlin; not serious and quickly put down; Herr Dittmann arrested.

January 30, 1918

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1918, air raid, Anutieh, Battle of Imbros, Battle of Jerusalem, Berlin, Brazil, casualties, civilian casualties, communications, Dardanelles, France, Germany, Great Britain, HMS E14, Imperial German Navy, Jerusalem, Munich, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Navy, Palestine, Paris, Pedro Frontin, Royal Navy, sinking, SMS Goeben, strike, Turkey

British line slightly advanced near Anutieh, 12 miles north of Jerusalem. Turks sink off Kum Kale H.M. submarine E14, which went up straits on January 27 to attempt destruction of Goeben; seven men were saved. Admiral Pronti appointed Commander-in-Chief of Brazilian Fleet to co-operate in European waters. Air raid on Paris; 255 casualties; one raider brought down. German strikes announced spreading to Munich and other places; intensified state of siege declared in many German towns, including Berlin; Vorwärts and other newspapers suppressed.

January 29, 1918

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1918, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Three Mountains, England, Essex, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, London, prisoners of war

Attempted air raid on London; bombs dropped in the outskirts. Further Italian progress; Monte di Val Bella taken; total prisoners, 2,600.

January 28, 1918

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1918, accident, aeroplanes, air raid, Asiago, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Three Mountains, Berlin, Brenta, casualties, civilian casualties, England, English Channel, Essex, Finland, Finnish Civil War, Germany, Great Britain, Hamburg, Helsinki, HMS Hazard, Italy, Kiel, London, prisoners of war, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, sinking, strike

Italian attack between Asiago and the Brenta Valley; Col del Rosso with 1,500 prisoners taken. Air raid on London by 15 machines, in three groups, of which about five penetrate the defences; in a subsequent attack one machine reaches London; 47 killed and 169 injured; about 70 British airmen up and a raider brought down in flames in Essex. Torpedo-boat Hazard sunk in collision in Channel; three men drowned. Helsingfors reported captured by Red Guards and the Finnish Senate overthrown. Big strikes reported spreading in Germany – in Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel, and other places.

January 27, 1918

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1918, Battle of Imbros, Dardanelles, Germany, Imbros, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Navy, SMS Goeben, Turkey

The Goeben refloated.

January 26, 1918

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1918, France, Germany, Great Britain, St Quentin

Announced British taken over more of the French front and our line now extends south of St. Quentin.

January 25, 1918

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1918, Finland, Finnish Civil War, France, Germany, Loos, Russia, Sweden

Enemy raid east of Loos. Fighting reported in Finland between Bolshevist Red Guards and the Finnish Senate’s troops; Finnish authorities said to have applied to Sweden for help.

January 24, 1918

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1918, American President, Austria-Hungary, British Prime Minister, Georg von Hertling, German Imperial Chancellor, Germany, Great Britain, Lloyd George, Ottokar Czernin, peace, United States of America, Woodrow Wilson

Count Hertling and Count Czernin reply to Mr. Wilson’s and Mr. Lloyd George’s speeches on war aims.

January 23, 1918

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1918, Belgium, Flanders, France, Germany, Leon Trotsky, Nieuport, peace, Russia, Russian Revolution, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, trenches, Ukraine

Enemy gain French trenches at Nieuport but are driven out again. Trotsky‘s communication to all foreign countries that German peace conditions constitute “a demand for a most monstrous annexation.”

January 22, 1918

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1918

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