Western Front
Allied forces capture another 62 French villages from the Germans, who are continuing their planned withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. Over 170 villages taken by Allies in three days.
French advance beyond Ham (Somme) and take Chauny (Oise).
Heavy German “attacks” between Avocourt Wood and Hill 304 (Verdun) “repulsed”.
Eastern Front
Bavarian cavalry withdrawing after fighting a rearguard action near Chauny:
http://imgur.com/YBmV25W © IWM (Q 69959)
Southern Front
Germans re-occupy railway station at Poroj, previously entered by British.
Renewed activity in Pass of Tonale, in areas of Pasubio, Asiago, Tolmino, east of Gorizia and on Carso.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean:
U-64 sinks modern French battleship
Danton (296 lost) southwest of Sardinia. The French battleship
Danton (completed March 1911) was classified as a ‘Semi-Dreadnought’ with 18,400 tons and just 4 x 12-inch main guns plus 12 x 9.4-inch guns.
https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...anton.jpg?ssl=1
Kaiser Wilhelm II approves announcement that Allied hospital ships in Mediterranean no longer to be spared except in neutral corridor under strict conditions. [ed note: The Germans were, by now, convinced that the Allies were using Hospital Ships as very thinly-disguised troop transports, and the actual wounded carried by them, and the medical staff of doctors, orderlies, and nurses on board was what today would be called “human shields”.]
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Maude’s proclamation to Baghdad promises Arab freedom. British take Falluja (west of Baghdad) ending Turkish control of Euphrates sluice gates.
Capture of Deltawa and Sindia.
Political, etc
Germany: (Special 1911): Socialist German politician Clara Zetkin established the first International Women's Day.
Russia: Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee appoints commissars to all units. Parade of military schools in Palace Square, Petrograd after the Revolution:
http://imgur.com/uRNhh76
Workers in Petrograd are ordered by the Committee of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates to resume work in the factories. Back pay will be given for days during the Revolution.
Attempted murder of Aleksandr Kerenski.
France: Alexandre Ribot is named the new Prime Minister of France:
http://imgur.com/1UETxTm
United Kingdom: Lloyd George in the House of Commons congratulates the “free people” of Russia, but he is jeered by Irish Nationalist MPs.
British Government opens relations with M. Miliukov, but Government not officially recognised.
Financial statement by Mr. Bonar Law in House of Commons.
United States: Roosevelt criticizes Wilson’s inaction over submarines: “We have been content to shelter ourselves behind the fleet of a foreign power.”
President Wilson settles U.S. railway strike; eight hours day legalized.