Western Front
Battle of Verdun: German attacks lead the capture of Hill 304 and 200 French prisoners; French subsequently regain trenches lost on Hill 304.
Eastern Front
Romania: Central Power armies in Romania capture 9000 Romanian troops, as its offensive continues after the fall of Bucharest.
Romanian retreat east on all fronts; Wallachia in Central Powers’ hands; latter checked on Moldavian frontier.
Russians attack in south-east Galicia.
Fighting in Oitoz and Trotus valleys.
Southern Front
Continued heavy fighting in Monastir region.
Action south of Seres.
Greece: Entente Governments announce forthcoming blockade of Greece from December 8th (see 1st). (Also reported for yesterday).
Sir G. Milne's despatch of 9 October 1916 issued, covering operations on Salonika front 9 July to 8 October 1916.
Troops from the Morea concentrating round Athens.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Sinai: Philip Chetwode GOC of new Desert Column.
Aden: British brigade retakes Jabir and Haturn (over 150 Turk casualties).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Suffren, the French battleship, sunk earlier (see 26 November), reported lost with all hands.
Atlantic: SS Mount Temple, a ship that responded to the Titanic’s distress signal, is captured by German raider
SMS Möwe.
Mount Temple is scuttled, resulting in loss of its cargo, which included 710 horses and 22 crates of dinosaur fossils:
http://imgur.com/xpJS6hd
Africa:
Algeria: 1,200 Senussi besiege Agades inside the Sahara (until March 3, 1917), wipe out 54 camelry men on December 28. Senegalese battalion sails from Marseilles to Dakar (arriving January 4, 1917) and crosses to Nigeria.
Mediterranean: German submarine
UB-46 hits a Russian mine near Bosphorus, resulting in the deaths of all 20 crew. Wreckage today:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...-46-wreck-2.jpg
Political, etc.
Germany: Germany rejects Belgian protest as unfounded.
France: Government wins confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies 344-160.
United Kingdom: LLOYD GEORGE BECOMES PRIME MINISTER.
Call up of non-skilled munition workers agreed.
Turkey: Interior Ministry reports to Grand Vizir 702,900 Armenians ‘relocated’ by October 31.
Greece: “Persecution” of Venizelists continues. Official complicity in late outrages at Athens confirmed.