Western Front
Joffre letter to Haig specifies broad lines of combined action in 1917 (Haig agrees by letter on November 6).
High winds and poor weather hampers air operations until November 8 and from November 12-15.
Battle of the Somme: French repulse counter-attack at Sailly-Saillisel and advance northeast of Lesboeufs. Other British and French attempts to reverse German gains fail, in part due to bad weather. Allies announce 72,901 PoWs; 303 guns; 215 mortars and 981 MGs captured since July 1, 1916.
Battle of Verdun: Fort Vaux evacuated by Germans, and recaptured by French forces (see June 2nd).

Eastern Front
Transylvania: Falkenhayn advances beyond Törzburg, Predeal and Rotenturm Passes (until November 5).
Dobruja: Sakharov replaces Zayonchkovski in command of Danube Army (now 8 divisions) and orders end to ‘shameful flight’. By November 5, 27 Russian divisions in Rumania (Fourth, Eighth and Danube Armies).
Airship LZ-97 raids Bucharest (German 1st Squadron raids on November 14, 20, 22 and December 12-15).

Southern Front
Ninth Battle of the Isonzo: Italian Second and Third Armies attack at 1110 hours east of Gorizia and on Carso. In former some ground gained on San Marco slopes despite waist-deep mud, in latter Toscana Brigade (D’Annunzio a vol) seizes Velike Kribach (1,125 ft), 5 other objectives taken and held or regained after Austrian attacks (night November 1-2).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Lawrence crosses Red Sea from Jeddah to Port Sudan in cruiser HMS Euryalus, goes on to Khartoum for talks.
Armenia: In November Turk getting only 1/3 rations despite German motor columns and efforts. Second Army Kharput hospital has 900 deaths per month. Third Army losses 60,000 men to cold, plague, lice and typhus (July 1916 to spring 1917).
British Appointment of Colonel L. Stack as acting Governor-General of Sudan and Sirdar.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Grand Fleet receives daily Room 40 summaries of all German naval movements and changes.
Adriatic: Italian torpedo boats raid Pola.
France: 12 Japanese-built Arabe-class destroyers ordered (completed September-October 1917).

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: In November Air Board orders 8,000 Hispano-Suiza engines.
Italy: In early November Italian Navy discover French reading their codes, but this continues into 1918.
United States: Mercantile U-boat Deutschland reaches New London on second transatlantic voyage.
Greece: Greek royalist forces and those loyal to Venizelos clash near Thessalonica, resulting in several casualties.

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