'December snow.' Hand-painted watercolor calendar for December 1917 by Schima Martos. Particulates from a smoking kerosene lamp overspread the days of December, and are labeled 'December höra,' 'December snow.' The first five days or nights of the month show a couple at, sitting down to, or rising from a lamp-lit table. The rest of the month the nights are dark, other than four in which the quarter of the moon shows through a window, or Christmas, when the couple stands in the light of a Christmas tree.
December höraDecember snow2½ liter petroleum.
"Thursday, July 6, 1916.While the English are developing their offensive between the Somme and the Ancre, the French have advanced beyond the enemy's second line of defence, south of the Somme. In the two zones of attack the Germans have left about 13,000 prisoners.From the Stokhod to the sources of the Pruth, i.e., on a front of three hundred kilometres, the Russians are methodically advancing. In the north, in Volhynia, they are threatening Kovel. In the south, Galicia, they are in occupation of Delatyn, which commands one of the principal gates into the Carpathians, on the line between Stansilau and Marmaros-Sziget.There is equal activity in Armenia, where the Turks have been driven back simultaneously on the shores of the Black Sea and west of Erzerum."
Entry for Thursday, July 6, 1916, from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia. The Anglo-French Somme Offensive launched on July 1, the Russian Brusilov Offensive and Russia's success against the Turks in the Caucasus and along the Black Sea had relieved the French defending Verdun, and the Italians who had halted the Austro-Hungarian Asiago Offensive.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. II by Maurice Paléologue, pp. 293-294, publisher: George H. Doran Company
1916-07-06, 1916, July, Battle of the Somme, Somme, Brusilov Offensive, Calendar, 1916, Date, 1916-01-01, calendar, date
