Field Marshall John French was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Home Forces in Great Britain.
An Allied column in the Sahara survived a Senussi attack which was repulsed by superior firepower and Australian mounted reinforcements.
The Bulgarian army captured Bogdanci.
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Leyendecker's cover was a Christmas theme. There would not be another peacetime Christmas in the US until 1918.
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Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato was attacked by around 700 armed men on horseback thought to retreating members of Villa's army. Locals resisted the attack, which amounted to banditry.
Following a drunken knife assault on Finnish immigrant Oscar Carlson in Wrangell, Alaska, a town authorized vigilance committee drove Mexican dock workers out of the town. One of them was the guilty party, which had asked Carlson to fight or drink with them. Ultimately, one was arrested and served time for the assault, but not before Mexicans in general had been driven out of the town.
New dockworkers from Mexico would return the following year.
An interesting aspect of this is that I wouldn't have thought there were Mexican dock workers in Alaska at the time.
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The British First Army launched a night attack a three mile section of the German line from Neuve-Chapelle, France, in the north to the village of Festubert .
The court of inquiry on the Singapore Mutiny sentenced 47 were sentenced to execution by firing squad. The remaining 600 Indian soldiers and officers that did not mutiny were ordered to serve in Africa.
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