Western Front
Air War
Belgium: 6 RNAS Short seaplanes (1 FTR) bomb Ostend docks and Zeebrugge (repeated November 15 and 17), 19 RNAS bombers raid Ostend (November 10; 10 bombers repeat on November 12). Zeebrugge again bombed on November 22 and 28; little damage but German torpedo boats lie up at Bruges.
Battle of the Somme: RFC helps fire on 203 targets (40 direct hits) and discovers Hindenburg Line works. RNAS No 8 Squadron (from Dunkirk units) joins Somme fighting, destroys 24 aircraft for loss of 2 pilots (until December 31).
Largest air battle yet: c.30 German fighters intercept 12 British bombers and 14 escorts destroying 5 (BE2c to Richthofen) and damaging 3; 26 other air combats.
Aerial photograph of German lines southeast of Beaumont Hamel in the Somme:
http://imgur.com/S9vVOTd
End of 3rd Phase of Battle of the Somme.
Eastern Front
Western Russia: Germans take 3,400 PoWs at Skrobova.
Dobruja: Sakharov occupies with the aid of Danube naval forces, recapture the town of Hârșova (Hirsova), (also Topalu 12 miles southeast on November 11) and Dunarea on Danube eastern bank, fighting for Cernavoda Bridge (until November 12) ends in retreat to Dunarea.
Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Malangali post attacked (8-12 November) and relieved.
Political, etc.
Germany: von Bethmann-Hollweg Reichstag speech replies to Grey on causes of war; states Germany will accept peace if British rule over the seas is ended.
United Kingdom: Asquith Guildhall speech assures Venizelos and Armenians of British sympathy; no separate peace possible. “Peace…on one condition only—that the war, with its vast waste, its sacrifices, its untold sufferings…shall not have been in vain.”
France: French War Loan 454,000,000 francs.
Portugal: Portuguese troops ready to leave for European front.