On This Day - 21 November 1917
Theatre definitions:
Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any
military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland.
Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and
Austro-Romanian fronts. Southern Front comprises the
Austro-Italian and Balkan (including Bulgaro-Romanian) fronts, and
Dardanelles. Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres comprises
Egypt, Tripoli, the Sudan, Asia Minor (including Transcaucasia), Arabia,
Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, China, India, etc.
Naval and Overseas Operations comprises operations on the seas
(except where carried out in combination with troops on land) and in
Colonial and Overseas theatres, America, etc. Political, etc.
comprises political and internal events in all countries, including Notes,
speeches, diplomatic, financial, economic and domestic matters.
Source: Chronology of the War (1914-18, London; copyright expired)
Western Front
British success continued; villages taken; British troops at Fontaine Notre Dame within 2.5 miles of Cambrai; more guns and prisoners captured.
French carry a salient on Craonne Plateau, south of Juvincourt.
Eastern Front
Bolsheviks dismiss General Dukhonin (Commander-in-Chief) for refusing to negotiate an armistice with enemy; Ensign Krilenko Commander-in-Chief.
Southern Front
Strong enemy attacks in mountains between the Brenta and Piave are everywhere repulsed by Italians, except at Mt. Fontana Secca.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
General Allenby's troops storm the Nebi Samwil ridge, five miles north of Jerusalem; fruitless counter-attacks by Turks.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Considerable captures of Germans in East Africa by British columns, at Simba and Nevala.
Political, etc.
Disenfranchisement of Conscientious Objectors passed in Commons.
Ukrainian Republic proclaimed and declared member of Russian Federal Republic.
