New German Army Movements Near Warsaw and Baltic Air Battle
Official report recounts German naval aircraft attack near Schilling Roads off Cuxhaven with seven planes and escort, a three hour British response off Helgoland, Zeppelin and submarine activity, and the safe return of six of seven pilots while Flight Commander Hewlett is missing. Also notes a Brussels visit by Squadron Commander Davies to drop bombs on an airship shed, with eight bombs hitting the shed.
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Cuxhaven
Oliver, Hewlett
Ross
Kilner
Miley
Edwards
Blackburn
Helgoland
Hewlett
Richard B. Davies
Naval Air Service
Brussels
Farman
New German Army in East Forces Warsaw Advance
Germany has formed a fresh force from East Prussia and is driving toward Warsaw after recapturing Mlawa. The move shifts the Polish campaign to a northern flank, threatening the Russian right wing and pressing a potential final stand near the capital. Russian reports stress artillery exchanges with limited ground gains, while Austria suffers losses in Galicia and southern Poland. French air raids retaliate for Nancy, bombing Metz and its garrison with bombs on hangars and a rail yard before returning to lines near the Lorraine frontier.
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London
Germany
Europe
Francois
Pellmell
Prussian
Nicholas
Mlawa
Warsaw
Berlin
Bzura
Rawa
von Hindenberg
Niedenberg
Laudenberg
East Prussia
Vistula
Petrograd
Rawka
Nancy
Metz
Lorraine
Taube
Paris
Verdun
Meuse
Moselle
Flanders
France
Argonne
St. Die
Alsatian
Big German Guns Taken In Paris Region Action
Paris dispatch reports a semi official note stating French forces captured two quick firers several siege guns on carriages a siege mortar of 5 millimetres a gun of 37 millimetres with an armored cupola and a revolving gun of 37 millimetres during Dec 24 attacks on German trenches in the Perthes region.
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Paris
Perthes
German bomber drops near London during Christmas Day raid
London dispatch reports a German aircraft dropped a bomb near Rochester about 28 miles from St Pauls and seven miles from Gravesend. No damage occurred as the bomb fell in a roadway.
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London
England
Rochester
St. Paul’s
Gravesend
A British Sailor's Song
The shores are blind the seas are mined The wild sou westers blow And at our posts on stormy coasts We cruise and seek the foe Behind their forts in sheltered ports Secure their ships may be But the sea was made for sailor men And sailors for the sea Through fields they sowed we clear a road In weather they don't feel Long watch we keep while they can sleep Behind the booms of Kiel They lock us out and wait in doubt For orders from Berlin But on the seas we hold the keys The keys that hold them in For blows they dealt below the belt For mines their hirelings laid For things like these that spoil our seas We're out until we're paid In safety they like captives stay In danger we go free For the sea was made for sailor men And sailors keep the sea
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Kiel
Berlin
German Statement on Warfront Advances and Bombardments
German general staff reports English ships off Belgium coast and minor Polish progress on Bzura and Rawka. French attacks fail east of Thann and in Meurissons while German counterattacks regain an important height east of Thann. Russian offensive activity wanes. air raids target Nancy and Metz. Cernay heights in upper Alsace show progress.
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London
Flanders
Albert
Boiselle
Meurissons
Argonnes
Verdun
Upper
Alsace
Thann-Dammerkirch
Thann
East
West Prussia
Poland
Bzura
Rawka
Tomas
Snowlodz
French Statement on German Attacks and Paris War Notes
Paris dispatch reports German artillery and infantry assaults at La Boisselle and trenches near Passaleine repulsed. Allies hold Passaleine trenches and Meuse ground near Garonne. St Die bombarded from morning to noon, with calmer conditions along the Lys and the sea.
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Paris
War Office
la Boisselle
Passaleine
Meuse
Garonne
St. Die
Polish Front Briefing Details Heavy Austrian Losses
General headquarters reports Dec 2 to 27 fighting along Bzura and Rawka rivers with limited artillery fire and successful repulses. Austrians driven from Nida left bank near Wislica, 16 rapid firers abandoned, 43 officers and 2500 soldiers captured, plus eight machine guns and 1000 more prisoners next day. Dukla region engagements yield heavy Austrian retreat and over 10 000 captured.
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Galicia
Poland
Warsaw
Cracow
Russia
Nida
Wislica
Tarnow
Tuchow
Olpiny
Siedliska
Biala River
Carpathians
Dukla Pass
Petrograd
Bzura
Rawka
Vistula
Tachow-Olpiny
Siedlizka
Biala
Dukla
Zmigrad-Dukla
Taube Plane Captured After Fierce Valley of Suippe Fight
In France on December 9 Petit Parisien recounts the Taube airship downing near Suippes. French batteries pinned the German craft, the Taube fell near Aghilcourt after heavy fire, and French Dragoons arrived to seize the aircraft and trenches. The aviator was killed. German defenders initially resisted before the French secured the position.
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Bar-Le-Duc
France
Petit Parisien
Suippe
Aghilcourt
Gonda
Officers of sunk German ship jailed
The Hamburg Echo reports at Wilhelms haven a court martial found Captain Vieper guilty and sentenced him to two years in a fortress while Commander Cleve received one year for disobedience or negligence tied to the sinking of the German cruiser Borck after a mine collision on the Yarmouth raid, with over 300 lives lost.
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Borck
Yarmouth
Vieper
Cleve
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