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UK Sep-Dec 1915

- In Parliament, a bill is approved that enacts the first use of conscription. A new influx of (unwilling) recruits therefore is able to head to the frontlines.

- A large-scale autumn assault at the towns of Champagne and Loos succeeeds in breaking through German lines. Contrary to the "major breakthrough" that newspapers herald however, the Allies progress only to the German secondary lines, where they are held up in time for the Axis to consolidate their positions. A new stalemate sets in.

- The British military views tank trials, and gives thr go-ahead for the production of hundreds aimed for the following year.

- The British scramble to hold a Dutch beachhead alongside the other Allies. The Royal Navy holds a sea corridor for reinforcements to arrive at the cost of numerous warships. British forces flood into Dunkirk.

- After the initial success in reaching Jerusalem, the British advance slows without surpise as a factor. Initial attempts to capture the port of Haifa fail, whilst the siege of Amman, Jordan, persists into the new year. In the south, with the benefit of Royal Navy heavily shelling Turkish positions, Indian and Colonial troops reach Al Wajh, whilst Omani and Arab troops fight determined resistance for the town of Al-Qunfudhah.

- Reinforcements arrive to the Greek peninsula, mainly from Canada and the Caribbean. Against Ottoman assaults, the E90 motorway becomes the line-of-defence. A determined and courageous effort is made to hold the city of Thessaloniki. On the Adriatic Coast, mainly Greek forces push north to the town of Sarande, in an effort to relieve a British naval garrison on Corfu.

- Gas masks dutifully sent over to Sweden.