Countdown on the Great War. October 18, 1918. Lille taken, Czechoslovakia declares its independence, more lives lost at sea and more lives lost in Russia.

British troops entering Lille, Belgium.   A photo strongly recalling similar photographs from World War Two.

1.  The British entered Lille, Belgium and  the Allies otherwise took Thourout, Ostend and Douai.

2. Czechoslovakia declared independence.

3.  The Reds executed approximately 100 Imperial Russian officers in Pyatigorsk.

4.  The British cargo ships Hunsdon and RFA Industry were sunk in the Irish sea by German submarines.  The Icelandic trawler Njordur was sunk by a submarine in the Atlantic.  The French battleship Voltaire was hit by a torpedo fired by a German submarine but was only damaged.  The Austro Hungarian passenger ship Linz hit a mine and sunk with large loss of life.  

The British submarine HMS E3 was sunk in the North Sea by a German submarine.  The submarine, which had been attempting to maneuver against German surface ships when spotted by the German submarine, put off survivors but the U-boat did not pick them up at first fearing a second British submarine.  When it returned, they had all been lost.