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Old 08-13-2017, 01:36 PM
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6 August 1917

OK, here we go:
Western Front
Men of the Glasgow Highlanders doing a physical training game at Ghyvelde: © IWM (Q 2685): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...167434420256769

Eastern Front
Second phase of Battle of Marasesti begins (untilSeptember 3): Mackensen (12 divisions with 865 guns) storms positions north of Focsani, as Russian Fourth Army (Ragoza) flees, advances 8 miles and takes 3,000 PoWs (until August 7).
General Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945): https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ensen.jpg?ssl=1
Romanian troops at Mărășești: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...152339900293120
Slight Russian rally in Czernowitz region.
Russian prisoners captured by the Germans near Focsani, Romania, receiving their bread rations: © IWM (Q 60341): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...182543183970304

Political, etc
Russia
: M. Kerenski definitely appointed Prime Minister of Russia (see July 19th, September 10th and November 8th), forms Save the Revolution National Ministry. Tereshchenko new Foreign Minister, tells Colonel Knox on August 12 that Russia will fight through winter. Knox leaves for London on August 18, having seen Kerensky before on August 16.
Russian Ministry of Justice orders the arrest of Leon Trotsky for his part in the recent clashes between the government and Bolsheviks.
United Kingdom: French Prime Minister Painleve and Lloyd George in London until August 8 to discuss separate peace with Austria-Hungary.
United States: Workers in an airplane factory assembling wings in New York City: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...212736854495232
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