Western Front
French Army Mutinies: A battalion of the 166th Division staged a protest demonstration against further futile offensives.
France: Haig meets Petain at Amiens, latter says British Flanders plans too ambitious, former’s diary finds Petain ‘businesslike, knowledgeable and brief of speech’.
British officers training on horseback near Arras: © IWM (Q 2155):
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Aisne: French easily repulse slight attacks on Chemin des Dames California plateau (until May 19). Germans regain 200 yards on May 20.
Artillery activity near Fresnoy.
Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians extend their hold on Vodice and Hill 652.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: 918 British river craft and 148 on order from India.
Palestine: EEF begins offensive patrols in Gaza sector.
Political, etc
Russia: The Duma urges loyalty to Allies on Provisional Government.
United Kingdom: John Buchan reports on poor ‘public feeling’, urges more domestic propaganda. Cabinet agrees on May 22 to a campaign to ‘counter-attack the pacifist movement’.
Several labour leaders in Sheffield, England are arrested under the Defense of Realm Act for organizing a strike in defiance of their unions.
United States: Selective Conscription Act for men aged 21-31. 500,000 to be mustered in September. A blindfolded volunteer draws out the assigned numbers of some of those Americans to fight on the Western Front:
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US Base Hospital No 4 (243 staff) reaches Britain (first US soldiers to do so).
Minor Allies: Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Germany (see May 8th, 1918).