Western Front
A localized German counter-attack south-east of Ypres is repulsed.
Small British advance near Bullecourt.
British airplanes conduct a morning raid on the airdrome at St Denis Westrem near Bruges, Belgium.
The ruins of a church in Bapaume, France: © IWM (Q 78434):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...327098285686784
Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Offensive north of Asiago: Italians carry position on Corno Cavento (west Trentino) and repulse attack on Mt. Ortigara. Austria-Hungary loses ~1,000 PoWs
British withdraw on wide front from advanced positions in Struma Valley.
Rise of a patrol in the Alps:
https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...uille.jpg?ssl=1
Salonika: In these days Turkish 50th Division withdrawn from east of Struma home, to Aleppo. 1 Turkish regiment left in theater.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Atlantic: 35 Royal Navy destroyers and 15 submarines on special hunting operation (until June 24) north of Scotland sight U-boats 61 times, make 12 attacks, but inflict no damage.
Baltic: Rear-Admiral Dmitri N Verderevski made C-in-C by Kerensky. Maksimov becomes STAVKA (CNS) aged 44, but some crews press for elected commanders.
Political, etc
Germany: Hindenburg note to Bethmann blames inflation on ‘The monstrous increase of worker wages’.
France: French newsreel showing re-occupied Alsace and other items:
http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/47288
United Kingdom: Lord Rhondda's appointment as Food Controller announced.
Andrew Bonar Law announces all Irish prisoners taken during the Easter Rising will be released.
British public demands the government to provide better warning for airplane raids after the recent devastating attacks by the Germans.
United States: The Espionage Act of 1917 is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
http://www.legisworks.org/congress/65/publaw-24.pdf Though claimed to have been enacted to prevent the support of United States enemies during wartime, it has been more often used to suppress dissent, and to harass and prevent the activities of whichever individuals or groups attracted the ire of the national government at the time it is fairly arbitrarily enforced. The Act includes fines up to $10,000 and up to 20 years jail; 2 anarchists almost immediately arrested for disrupting registration. Congress votes $ 3,281 million for Army and Navy See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
U.S. completes issuing $1.9 billion worth of Liberty Bonds to finance the war effort.
Minor Allies: Haiti breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.