[Sailor Steve]

October 9, 1918


Western Front:

British take Cambrai.

Advance continued. Since 21 August entire Hindenburg system broken through, 110,000 prisoners and 1,200 guns.

British arrive within two miles of Le Cateau.

North of Verdun French and Americans push beyond 1915 line.

Hostile counter-attacks on River Arnes repulsed.


Eastern Front:

Finnish Lantdag elects Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse King of Finland.

Proclamation of Regency Council in favour of an independent and re-united Poland.


Southern Front:

Serbs enter Leskovats; fighting on River Toplitsa.

Greek troops enter Kavalia.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres

British armoured cars enter Baalbek and take 500 prisoners.


Political, etc:

Talaat and Enver Pashas reported resigned, and replaced by Ahmed Tewfik and Izzet Pashas.

Milk controlled; jam to be rationed.

Spanish Premier remains; crisis over.


Air War:

0830 South African RAF ace Robert Barbour, flying DH.9a F1014 with Capt M.F.M. Wright as observer, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 6.

1440 German ace Otto Löffler, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 14.

1530 French ace Pierre Marinovitch, with Spa 94, shoots down a Rumpler two-seater for victory number 17.

1615 German ace Georg von Hantelmann, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 21.

1615 German ace Hugo Schäfer, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 11.

1640 French ace Armond Berthelot, flying with Spa 15, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 10.

1645 Armond Berthelot scores his second kill of the day, shooting down another EA for victory number 11.

1730 German ace Oliver von Beaulieu-Marconnay, with Jasta 19, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 24.

1730 Germa ace Wilhelm Seitz, with Jasta 68, shoots down an Allied two-seater for victory number 13.

1740 German ace Max Näther, with Jasta 62, destroys an American observation balloon for victory number 18. 1st Lt D.M. Reeves and Sgt H.O. Nichols, 7th Balloon Co USBS, both parachute safely.

1745 Max Näther scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a SPAD XIII for victory number 19. 1st Lt R. Phelan, 213th Aero Sqdn USAS, lands on his own side of the lines.

1752 American ace Edward Richenbacker, in SPAD XIII S4523, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 18.

German ace Harald Auffarth, with Jasta 29, shoots down a Bristol F.2b for victory number 22.

Harald Auffarth scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a SPAD VII for victory number 23. Lt J. Gothals, Belgian Escadrille 10e, is killed. Auffarth claims this as a Camel.

German ace Paul Bäumer, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down Bristol F.2b E2256 for victory number 43. Capt L. Campbell and 2nd Lt W. Hodgkinson, 62 Sqdn RAF, are both killed.

French ace Jean Bozon-Verduraz, flying with Spa 94, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 11.

German ace Gustav Dörr, with Jasta 45, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 32.

German ace Josef Jacobs, with Jasta 7, claims two Allied observations balloons for victories 42 and 43.

Canadian RAF ace Donald MacLaren, in Sopwith Camel F2137, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 54.

German ace Karl Plauth, flying with Jasta 51, shoots down a Salmson 2.A2 for victory number 14.

French ace Jean Sardier, with Spa 48, shoots down a Rumpler two-seater for victory number 14.