Countdown on the Great War, November 1, 1918. The Polish Ukranian War erupts, Prince Max polls his princely fellows, Allies continue to advance.

1.  Prince Maximilian of Baden wrote the various German princes to ask if they would accept the resignation of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

1.  French and American forces captured Buzancy and Le Chesne.

2.  The Serbian First Army took Belgrade.

3.  The Italian Navy attached Austro Hungarian ships at Pula, Croatia, in the last surface engagement of World War One.  The Austro Hungarian battleship SMS Viribus Unitis was sunk by Italian sabateurs during the engagement resulting in the loss of over 300 of her crew.

Polish youth organization fighting in the Lwow cemetary.

3.  Poles in Lemberg (Lviv, Lwow) rose up against the establishment of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Galicia, igniting the Polish-Ukrainian War.

That this would occur at this point was emblematic of the mess that post war Europe would be.  The region surrounding Lemberg was in fact largely Ukrainian ethnically but the town itself was largely Polish.  The Austro Hungarians had moved Ukranian troops into the town late in the war and on this day Ukranian troops effected a coup against the Austrian government in the town and declared the region to be the West Ukrainian People's Republic, a name that had an obvious link to what was going on to the east in Russia.  Polish armed resistance broke out that very day, mostly via armed civilians (include Boy Scouts).

The incident resulted in the Polish Ukrainian War as the two very closely related peoples, separated by relatively slight linguistic differences but definite religious differences, fought out what their borders would be.  Lwow was under seige until November 21, but ultimately the Ukrainians withdrew but surrounded it.  The war would end with Lwow and Galicia solidly within Polish territory, which meant that Poland not only took in a largely Polish city but also took in a Ukrainian surrounding population.  Following World War Two Poland's eastern and western borders were massively redrawn and the city today, as well as the surrounded parts of Galicia, are within Ukraine.

4. The Banat Republic was formed within what is now Romania but which was then part of Austro Hungaria.

5. The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association was established. . . right in the midst of the Great War, an odd thought.