A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The British attack on an eight-mile front north of St. Quentin and make progress.

Oct. 4 (Fri.)

A Note from the German Government to President Wilson proposes that peace negotiations should be opened on the basis of his 'fourteen points' (see Appendix V.).

King Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicates in favour of his son Prince Boris.

The British advance east and south of Armentières.

The Americans renew their offensive between the Meuse and the Argonne and make progress.

The Japanese liner Hiramo Maru is sunk off the Irish coast with a loss of 292 lives.

Oct. 5 (Sat.)

The British advance east of the new breach they have made in the Hindenburg line and capture Montbrehain, Beaurevoir, and high ground further north: this marks the end of the Battle of Cambrai and the Hindenburg Line (see Sept. 27), by which victory, the main Hindenburg defences having been breached, the British directly threaten the enemy's chief line of communications.