June 10, 1918

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1918, Ancre, Aronde, Australia, Battle of Matz, British Empire, France, Germany, Minister of War, Montdidier, Morlancourt, Newton D Baker, Noyon, prisoners of war, Ribecourt, Somme, Third Battle of Morlancourt, United States of America

Stubborn French resistance on Montdidier-Noyon front; Germans in the centre sweep forward on a six-mile front to the valley of the Aronde, but are driven back again by French counter-attacks; on the right French fall back to Ribécourt; Germans claim 8,000 prisoners. Australian advance south of Morlancourt, between the Ancre and the Somme, on a front of 1½ miles, takes 300 prisoners. Mr. Baker, United States Secretary for War, announces more than 700,000 American soldiers already sent to France.

May 18, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Australia, British Empire, Cologne, France, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, internment, Morlancourt, prisoners of war, seaplanes, SM U-39, Spain, submarine, Ville-sur-Ancre

Australians capture post west of Morlancourt and later raid Ville-sur-Ancre, north-west of Morlancourt; 381 prisoners. First daylight raid by British airmen on Cologne; all return safely. German submarine U39 damaged by bombs from French seaplane, towed into Cartagena harbour by another U-boat and interned.

May 14, 1918

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1918, Australia, Avre, British Empire, France, Germany, Hailles, Morlancourt, prisoners of war

Enemy attack on a line of a mile south-west of Morlancourt fails to recapture ground previously lost to Australians. French gain ground south of Hailles, Avre valley; 70 prisoners.

May 5, 1918

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1918, Ancre, Australia, British Empire, Edward Northey, France, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Malawi, Morlancourt, Mozambique, Nanungu, Nyasaland, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, prisoners of war, Sailly-le-Sec, Somme, Tanzania

Australians advance 1,200 yards on a front of over a mile between Morlancourt and Sailly-le-Sec in the angle between the Ancre and the Somme; 200 prisoners taken. Von Lettow Vorbeck defeated by part of General Northey‘s column 15 miles west of Nanungu, 160 miles south of Lake Nyasa.

May 1, 1918

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1918, Allies, Amiens, Australia, British Empire, cavalry, communications, Crimea, Es Salt, Germany, Great Britain, Hejaz, Hermann von Eichhorn, Jisr-ed-Damieh, Jordan, Kiev, Montdidier, occupation, Ottoman Empire, prisoners of war, railway, Russia, Second action of Es Salt, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, weapons

Announced 5,241 German prisoners taken on the Western front in April, compared with 1,661 in March. Americans on the Amiens front near Montdidier. Australians capture Es Salt, halfway between the Jordan and the Hedjaz railway; 350 prisoners; Turks surprise a British mounted brigade near to the ford at Jisr-ed-Damieh and compel them to fall back; nine guns abandoned by the British. Germany establishes a military dictatorship in Ukraine; Field-Marshal Eichhorn orders peasantry to sow the land, arrests members of the Rada who resent his decree, and establishes German military government in Kieff; Sebastopol occupied by the Germans.

March 13, 1918

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1918, air raid, Australia, Belgium, British Empire, civilian casualties, Comines, Durham, England, evacuation, Germany, Great Britain, Hartlepool, Odessa, Petrograd, Polygon Wood, Russia, St Petersburg, Ukraine, West Hartlepool, Ypres, Ypres-Comines Canal, Zeppelin

German strong point south-east of Polygon Wood carried; Australian raid near the Ypres-Comines Canal. Germans reach Odessa; Petrograd being evacuated. Raid by a Zeppelin on north-east coast; bombs dropped on Hartlepool; eight killed and 22 injured.

March 11, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Armenia, Armentieres, Australia, Belgium, British Empire, Erzurum, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Jerusalem, Laventie, Messines, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Paris, Passchendaele, Portugal, Russia, Shechem, Turkey

Australian raids near Messines. German raids at Passchendaele Ridge, in Armentières district, and against the Portuguese, near Laventie, defeated. Further advance astride the Jerusalem-Shechem road. Turks recapture Erzrum after a stern defence by Armenians. German air raid on Paris by several squadrons of aeroplanes; four machines brought down.

March 4, 1918

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1918, Australia, Austria-Hungary, British Empire, Bulgaria, Dobrudja, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Les Eparges, Ottoman Empire, peace, Romania, Treaty of Bucharest, Turkey, Warneton

Australian raid at Warneton. French raid near Les Eparges. Rumania reported agrees to enemy peace terms, which include cessation of Dobudja to Bulgaria and readjustment of frontier between Rumania and Hungary.

October 31, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Beersheba, Battle of Caporetto, Beersheba, British Empire, civilian casualties, Edmund Allenby, England, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, London, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, prisoners of war, Slovenia, Syria, Tagliamento, Turkey, Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, Udine, weapons

Capture of Beersheba by General Allenby; 1,800 prisoners and 15 guns taken. Italian armies withdraw behind the Tagliamento. Germans cut off rearguard of Second Army between Udine and the river; another 60,000 prisoners claimed. Thirty German aeroplanes in seven groups attack London; about three machines penetrate the defences; eight killed, 21 injured.

October 5, 1917

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1917, Australia, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, Cote 344, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Lord Howe Island, Pacific, prisoners of war, sink, SMS Seeadler, United States of America, Verdun, Washington

British gains in prisoners increased to nearly 4,500. German attack north of Hill 344, Verdun front, defeated. Washington announces German raider Seeadler wrecked on Lord Howe Island in the Pacific on August 2.