December 22, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Belarus, Belgium, Brest Litowsk, Bulgaria, capture, civilian casualties, communications, England, Flanders, Germany, Great Britain, Kent, Ottoman Empire, peace, railway, Richard von Kuhlmann, Russia, Staden, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Turkey, Ukraine, Ypres

Germans drive in British advanced posts a short distance on a front of 700 yards near the Ypres-Staden railway. Two air attacks on the Kentish coast; one machine gets over the land, but is forced to descend, and crew captured; no casualties. Peace negoations under presidency of Herr von Kühlmann opened at Brest-Litovsk.

December 18, 1917

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1917, Abu Dis, air raid, Alexey Kaledin, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Jerusalem, British Empire, Broadstairs, Canada, civilian casualties, Col Caprile, Edmund Allenby, election, England, English Channel, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Jerusalem, Kent, London, Margate, Palestine, prisoners of war, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Russian Civil War, Russian Revolution

War Office announce General Allenby occupied high ground east of Abu Dis, two miles south-east of Jerusalem; 117 prisoners. Enemy attacks east of the Brenta from Col Caprile to Mt. Pertica; enemy capture Mt. Asolone; over 2,000 prisoners claimed. Rostoff in Kaledin‘s hands. Air raid by six groups of raiders, of which five machines reach London; 10 killed, 70 injured; one raider brought down by gunfire off Kent coast and another believed destroyed in the Channel. Result of Canadian elections, showing large majority for Unionist Party.

December 6, 1917

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aeroplanes, air raid, Allies, armistice, Armistice of Focsani, Asiago, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Cambrai, casualties, civilian casualties, England, First Battle of Monte Grappa, First Battle of the Piave, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Kent, La Vacquerie, Lisbon, London, Mount Sisemol, Ottoman Empire, peace, Portugal, prisoners of war, Ramsgate, Romania, Russia, Sheerness, Sidonio Pais, sinking, Turkey, United States Navy, United States of America, USS Jacob Jones, Val Frenzela, Whitstable

Enemy attacks round La Vacquerie. Austrians capture Mt. Sisemol, east of Asiago; attempts to break through in the Val Frenzela frustrated; 15,000 prisoners claimed by enemy to date. Early morning air raid by groups of enemy machines to the number of 25; five or six get over London; seven killed and 22 injured; two raiders brought down. Rumania agrees to an armistice. Rising in Lisbon against Portuguese Government; Provisional Government under Dr. Sidonio Paes reaffirms solidarity with Allies. U.S. destroyer Jacob Jones torpedoed and sunk; 37 survivors.

September 24, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Bois de Chaume, Dover, England, Essex, France, Germany, Great Britain, Kent, London, Verdun

German attack north of Bois de Chaume, Verdun front, repulsed. German aeroplane raid on London and South-East Coast driven off by gunfire, only two succeeding in penetrating London defences; 15 killed and 70 injured.

September 4, 1917

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1917, Adriatic, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Blackpool, bombardment, Brestovica, Carso Plateau, casualties, civilian casualties, civilians, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, England, Germany, Gorizia, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Italy, Kent, Latvia, London, Monte San Gabriele, peace, prisoners of war, Riga, River Aa, Russia, Scarborough, Sheerness, Slovenia, Stockholm, submarine, Sweden

Heavy fighting on the Julian front north-east of Gorizia; Italians win positions around Mte. S. Gabriele and take 1,600 prisoners; on the Carso they retreat between Brestovica and the sea, but later re-establish their line. German troops across the Aa, 33 miles north-east of Riga. German submarine shells Scarborough; three killed and five injured. About 20 German aeroplanes raid London at night; 11 killed and 62 injured; one enemy machine reported brought down in sea off Sheerness. Trade Union Congress at Blackpool decide against Stockholm Conference at present moment.

September 3, 1917

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1917, air raid, Baltic, Battle of Jugla, bombardment, casualties, Chatham, England, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Kent, Latvia, occupation, Parnu, Riga, Royal Navy, Russia, Sheerness

Fall of Riga to the Germans; German warships break into the Gulf of Riga and shell villages on Livonian coast south of Pernau. Enemy aircraft across the South-East Coast; 107 naval ratings killed and 86 wounded in Sheerness-Chatham district.

September 2, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Jugla, Brestovica, British Empire, civilian casualties, Daugava, Dover, Dvina, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, England, evacuation, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Italy, Jelgava, Kakera, Kent, Latvia, Mitau, Riga, Russia, Slovenia, surrender, Tanzania

Germans progressing along the Mitau road, south-west of Riga; Russian disaffection in this sector, they give up defence of the Dvina though offering some slight resistance at the Jaegel River; Riga evacuated. Further Italian progress in the Brestovica Valley. Progress in East Africa; German detachment surrenders at Kakera. German aeroplanes over East Kent; a few casualties.

August 22, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Banjsice Plateau, Battle of Hill 70, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, civilian casualties, Daugava, Dover, Dvina, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Kent, Latvia, Lens, Margate, Menin, prisoners of war, Ramsgate, Riga, Russia, Slovenia, Ypres

More progress on Bainsizza Plateau and new progress farther south; prisoners now over 16,000. British line advanced 500 yards on a front of about a mile near Ypres-Menin road; farther north they advance half a mile on a two-and-a-half mile front; Lens invested from south, west, and north. German activity on the Dvina, 10 miles south of Riga; Russian line withdrawn from three to eight miles in the north. Ten enemy aeroplanes over Margate, Dover, and Ramsgate; 24 casualties; three raiders brought down and five of protecting German squadron awaiting their return lost.

August 12, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Marasesti, Belgium, civilian casualties, England, Felixstowe, Focsani, Galicia, Germany, Great Britain, Kent, Kerensky Offensive, Margate, Romania, Royal Naval Air Service, Russia, Southend, Trotus, Ukraine, Zbrucz

Russian resistance on the Zbrucz stiffening. Rumanian offensive in highlands of the Trotus Valley; further Rumanian retirement in the Focsani sector. Twenty German aeroplanes off Felixstowe; driven off by British airmen they turn south and attack Southend and Margate; 32 killed and 43 injured at Southend; a Gotha aeroplane destroyed during return of raiders to the Belgian coast.

July 7, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, casualties, civilian casualties, England, Epernay, Essen, Flanders, Germany, Great Britain, Kent, Koblenz, London, Ludwigshafen, Margate, Nancy, Scheldt, Thames, Trier, Wytschaete

Slight British advance east of Wytschaete. Great German raid on London by about 20 aeroplanes; 59 killed and 193 injured; four raiders brought down on return journey, one at mouth of Thames, two at sea 40 miles from the east coast, and a fourth off the mouth of the Scheldt; two British pilots and one observer killed, one pilot wounded, two British machines destroyed by enemy and two crashed from other causes. French aeroplanes bomb Treves, Coblentz, Ludwigshafen, and Essen as reprisal for German raids on Nancy and Epernay the day before.