15th May 1919
Aftermath of War
British enter Afghanistan.
General Kolchak's army falls back.
Germans protest in Berlin in front of the Reichstag against the harsh clauses of the Treaty of Versailles.
Greek troops land in Smyrna (İzmir, Turkey) to begin occupation of parts of the Ottoman Empire:.
Reinterred: British nurse Edith Cavell, whose body was brought back to Britain from Belgium where she was executed during the war.
Ship Losses:
Derband (Soviet Union) Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War: The schooner was sunk by gunfire by the auxiliary cruisers
HMS Kruger and
HMS Emile Nobel (both Royal Navy) in the Caspian Sea.
Useyn Abdad (Soviet Union) Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War: The schooner was sunk by gunfire by the auxiliary cruisers
HMS Kruger and
HMS Emile Nobel (both Royal Navy) in the Caspian Sea.