Tags
1917, Adigo, American President, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Mount Ortigara, Belgium, British Empire, Bronta, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Italy, Ostend, Royal Navy, Russia, Tanzania, United States of America, Woodrow Wilson
Fighting on Italian front between the Adigo and the Bronta; Italians win Pass of Agnello and nearly whole of Monte Ortigara. Admiralty report all large shipping removed from Ostend Harbour, apparently as effect of bombardment. German detachment in the estuary of the Lukeledi, East Africa, driven into the interior. Text of Presidents Wilson’s Message to Russian Provisional Government published; war aims of United States defined and readjustment on practical lines suggested; wrongs must be righted and safeguards arranged.