Eastern Front
Baltic Provinces: Battle of the Aa: German attack near Kalutsem again repulsed.
Romania: Mackensen‘s Turkish troops take Mihalea on river Sereth northwest of Braila; he takes Vadeni 10 miles northwest on January 14 but driven out on January 16.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Yemen: 5 British ships land a force at Salif, capture 100 Turks and recover British rock salt works after 3 hours action. Britain recognizes Farson Island as Idrisi territory on January 22.
Naval and Overseas Operations
German steamer
Gneisenau, which had been sunk by British in 1914, being refloated:
http://imgur.com/ZMxAP7j* © IWM (Q 24022)
Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Count Ottokar Czernin tells Austrian Common Ministers Council compromise peace must be sought.
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm: “Our enemies have dropped the mask, admitted their lust of conquest and their aim to crush Germany and enslave Europe…”
Large number of Romanian prisoners are sent to occupied France by the Germans to work as agricultural laborers.
Italy: Allied Rome Note pledges to work for “liberation” of all Habsburg subject peoples.
United States: A fire breaks out at a Canadian Foundry Co. Plant in Kingsland, New Jersey, causing 500,000 artillery shells to explode. No one is killed.
Former President William Howard Taft resigns as honorary president of the World’s Court League.