31.—Beersheba, in Palestine, occupied by British.
November
1.—Germans abandon position on Chemin des Dames.
3.—Americans in trenches suffer 20 casualties in German attacks.
5.—Italians abandon Tagliamento line and retire on a 93-mile front in the Carnic Alps.
6.—Passchendaele captured by Canadians.
6.—British Mesopotamian forces reach Tekrit, 100 miles northwest of Bagdad.
7.—The Russian Bolsheviki, led by Lenine and Trotzsky, seize Petrograd and depose Kerensky.
8.—Gen. Diaz succeeds Gen. Cadorna as Commander-in-Chief of Italian armies.
9.—Italians retreat to the Piave.