Western Front
French Army Mutinies: No additional developments today; previous protests and insubordination continue.
France: FIRST US TROOPS DISEMBARK (1,308 US soldiers by May 31). A group of American soldiers on their arrival in France:
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Champagne: Three German counter-attacks fail. However, At Chemins-des-Dames, German troops capture French positions, taking 544 prisoners and 15 machine guns. \
(listed for yesterday): Karl Emil Schäfer, German fighter ace with 30 confirmed victories, is shot down and killed in action:
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A tent being used as a telephone exchange near Albert: © IWM (Q 2243):
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British troops clearing rubble around a statue of the Virgin Mary at Montauban: © IWM (Q 2240):
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Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italian 4th Division occupies ruins of Kostanjevica village but Austrian guns force evacuation. Italians capture 10 guns and reach river Timavo taking 800 PoWs but Hill 28 (Major Randaccio dies in poet D’Annunzio’s arms) not secured (until May 27).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Western Mediterranean: British hospital ship
Dover Castle (7 lost) sunk by
UC-67 (Neumann) off Algeria, but destroyer escort gets wounded off. (Neumann acquitted at June 1921 Leipzig War Crimes Trial on higher orders defence.)
Channel: Heinkel designed Brandenburg seaplane fighters shoot down a formation of 4 French Navy FBA flying boats.
Political, etc
France: French Minister of Marine states Germans have sunk 2,400,000 tons in first four months.
Canada: Mr. Balfour arrives in Canada.
Belgium: German occupation of Belgium raises the monthly war tax from 50 million marks to 60 million marks.
United States: Japanese immigration to the U.S. increases due to the need for laborers at farms, caused by food shortages.
A tornado in Charleston and Mattoon, Illinois kills 101 people. 10 pother people are also killed by different tornadoes:
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Brazil: Brazil annuls its neutrality decree.