Western Front
Air: From behind BEF barrage hedge-hopping Nieuport fighters destroy 4 German balloons (7 destroyed similarly on May 7 for 2 Nieuports lost). 40 aircraft dogfight east of Arras in which Captain Ball makes the only kill.
Here, an observer saves himself from a hit balloon by parachute:
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French aeroplanes bomb Trier in reprisal for German air raids against Chalons and Epernay.
In Champagne and Moronvilliers region German trench raids beaten back.
Eastern Front
Alexeiev and Front commanders tell Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet ‘
The Army is on the very brink of ruin’.
2 MILLION DESERTERS IN MARCH AND APRIL.
Naval and Overseas Operations
First United States destroyer flotilla arrives at Queenstown (see June 18th).
Channel: Royal Navy destroyer
Derwent sunk by mine (52 lives lost):
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Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: At breakfast German Admiral Holtzendorff assures Emperor Charles that April U-boat sinkings will be 1 million tons, Empress Zita deplores U-boat war.
Germany: Talaat Pasha visits Kaiser.
United Kingdom: ‘
Then called on Carson at Admiralty … still deeply depressed about submarine war’ C P Scott, Editor Manchester Guardian.
Fresh Food Order extending powers of Controller.
Mr. Bonar Law introduces Budget.
Argentina: Argentina receives reparation from Germany for sinking of
Monteprotegido.
Greece: M. Zaimis again becomes Premier.