June 6, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Aisne, Allies, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, hospital, HS Koningin Regentes, HS Sindoro, Netherlands, Paris, prisoners of war, sinking, SM UB-107, submarine, The Hague, Third Battle of the Aisne

Allied reactions against enemy progress increasing; north of the Aisne Le Port taken. Hospital ship Koningin Regentes, in company of Sindoro carrying British delegates to Hague Prisoners’ Mission, sunk, presumably by torpedo. Gotha raid on Paris; one killed and a few injured.

May 22, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, civilian casualties, communications, France, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Liege, Mahua, Mozambique, Nanungu, Paris, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, railway, sinking, William FS Edwards, Zeebrugge

British air raid on Liége railway junctions. German air raid on Paris by about 30 machines, only one of which gets through defences; 1 killed, 12 injured. Air raids on Zeebrugge; a German destroyer in the harbour sunk by a bomb. General Edwards in contact with Von Lettow Vorbeck‘s forces between Nanungu and Mahua and drives him westwards.

May 19, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Capo Sile, casualties, civilian casualties, England, Etaples, France, Germany, Great Britain, hospital, Italy, London, Mozambique, Nanungu, Portugal, Portuguese East Africa, Portuguese Empire, Venice, William FS Edwards

Italian storming party capture advanced positions at Capo Sile, north-east corner of Venetian lagoons. Great air raid on London in which some of new large Gothas participate; 44 killed and 179 injured in London; five raiders destroyed and believed two others fall in flames into the sea. German airmen bomb large group of British hospitals at Etaples, far outside battle area in France; 300 casualties. Nanungu, German headquarters in Mozambique, occupied by General Edwards.

April 12, 1918

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1918, air raid, Bailleul, Battle of Messines, Battle of the Lys, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, Lawe, Messines, Neuve Eglise, St Venant, Zeppelin

In the north Germans gain ground towards Bailleul, enter Neuve Eglise, and again fight their way into Messines; in the centre they force the passage of the Lawe, threatening St. Venant. Raid by four Zeppelins, one of which reaches the Midlands; five killed, 15 injured.

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 7, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Battle of Tell 'Asur, civilian casualties, Edmund Allenby, England, Finland, Finnish Civil War, France, Germany, Great Britain, Jerusalem, La Bassee, London, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, peace, Shechem, Turkey

Allenby advances in Palestine on a front of 18 miles to a depth of three across the Jerusalem-Shechem road. German raid north-west of La Bassée. Peace signed between Germany and Finland. Air raid on London on a moonless night, two out of seven or eight machines penetrating the defences; 20 killed and 45 injured.

February 17, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, armistice, civilian casualties, communications, Conflans, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, London, peace, railway, Russia, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Air raid on London by six or seven machines, of which one penetrates defences; 19 killed, 34 injured. British airmen bomb railway at Conflans. German Headquarters announce that Russian armistice expires on February 18.

February 16, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, civilian casualties, Dover, England, Germany, Great Britain, Kiev, London, Nikolay Ivanov, Russia, Russian Civil War, Sir Henry Wilson, Sir William Robertson, Ukraine

Announced General Sir William Robertson resigned and succeeded as Chief of the General Staff by General Sir Henry Wilson. Air raid on London by six German machines, of which one penetrates the defences; 11 killed, four injured; later an attack on Dover driven off and one enemy machine destroyed. General Ivanoff reported killed at Kieff.

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 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.