On This Day - 11 June 1918
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
Check to German advance.
Successful French counter-attack from Rubescourt to St. Maur; recapture of Belloy.
Germans driven out of Antheuil.
Americans capture Belleau Wood (west of Chateau-Thierry).
Eastern Front
Soviet delegates arrive in Berlin.
Czecho-Slovaks in control of Siberian Railway between Cheliabinsk and Nizhni-Udinsk (west of Irkutsk); Bolsheviks retreat to Slatust.
Czechs threaten Samara (on Volga).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
British air raid on Amman.
Political, etc.
Bill for new Constitution of Finland presented to Finland Diet.
Speech of von Stein re: military position.
