World War One Diary for Saturday, November 23, 1918:

Southern Fronts

Austria: Italians occupy Innsbruck and Landeck (Tyrol).

Western Front

BEF GHQ lays down guidelines for Cologne bridgehead ‘… Tactical features will be prepared for defence, trenches dug, wire entanglements

erected … No more damage should be done to houses, trees, etc, than is absolutely necessary for military reasons’.

Germany: Death of General F Below, army commander since 1915, at Weimar aged 65.

Eastern Front

Galicia: Poles capture Lemberg.

Estonia: Provisional Government at Reval.

Don: Cossacks briefly take Liski rail junction (50 miles south of Voronezh) from Red Eighth Army.

Siberia: ­Kolchak proclaims ‘only the armed forces … offer salvation’.

Home Fronts

Britain: Lloyd George says Government’s task to make ‘a country fit for heroes to live in’. League football resumes.

Hungary: Electoral law adopted.