A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

Dec. 8 (Sat.)

Ecuador breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

The Russian peoples on the Don and in the Urals revolt against the Bolshevists.

Palestine:—The British advance isolates Jerusalem.

Dec. 9 (Sun.)

Palestine:—Fall of Jerusalem to General Allenby (see Dec. 11).

The Italians torpedo two Austrian battleships in the port of Trieste, sinking one of them (the Wien).

Dec. 10 (Mon.)

Panama declares war on Austria.