054 Lord Kitchener and the seamless sock
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Lord Kitchener
It is Sunday 4 July 1915. It is the 54th week after the shooting at Sarajevo.
The fighting in the Argonne gets bogged down.
After five days of attacking on the Isonzo front, the Italians have hardly been able to make progress, despite their overpowering dominance.
General Luigi Cadorna adamantly starts a new offensive with his Second Army, but again he encounters heavy resistance from the Austrians.
In the East African Rufiji delta two British warships, supported by four airplanes, turn their guns on German cruiser Königsberg, but do no succeed in eliminating the ship.
The British conquer trenches at Pilkem in the Westhoek (Flemish Flanders).
The army of the Austrian Archduke Joseph Ferdinand is defeated at Kraśnik.
The Sultan of Egypt, Hussein Kamel, again survives an assault.
The political and military leaders of Great Britain and France meet at a conference in Calais.
The German capitulation in South West Africa is a reality, but General Louis Botha allows the German reservists to keep their weapons and ammunition so that they can defend themselves against the ‘natives’.
And again an appeal is made to the virile part of the British nation by Lord Kitchener.
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