Word War 1 - 18th December 1914 British Protectorate over Egypt proclaimed. Meeting of Scandinavian Kings at Malmö. Battle of the Rawka-Bzura begins. [This battle had no definite end; operations subsided into trench warfare. Western Front Indian troops begin an attack on the Germans round Givenchy (La Bassee); a five days battle commenced. French pressure towards Peronne. Eastern Front Galicia: Austrians recover Lupkow Pass over the Carpathians. Naval and Overseas Operations German cruiser Friedrich Karl reported lost in Baltic. SMS Friedrich Carl was a German armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the Imperial German Navy. She was the second ship of the Prinz Adalbert class. Friedrich Carl was built in Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. She was laid down in 1901, and completed in December 1903, at the cost of 15,665,000 Marks. She was armed with a main battery of four 21 cm (8.3 in) guns and was capable of a top speed of 20.4 kn (37.8 km/h; 23.5 mph). The ship served with the German fleet after her commissioning before being used as a torpedo training ship in 1909. In August 1914 after the outbreak of World War I, she was brought back to active service to act as Rear Admiral Behrings flagship in the Baltic Sea. Her wartime career was cut short on 17 November when she struck a pair of Russian mines off Memel at 55°41′N 20°11′ECoordinates: 55°41′N 20°11′E. The mines caused fatal damage, but the ship sank slowly enough to permit the safe evacuation of most of the crew; only seven men were killed in the incident. Political, etc. Egypt: Hussein I proclaimed Sultan. Meeting of three Scandinavian Kings at Malmo. Great Britain: Conviction of Ahlers quashed. Photo: SS Friedrich Karl
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