Western Front
Peter Strasser (new ‘Leader of German Navy Airships’) rashly attempts London raid on nearly shortest night of year with 4 Zeppelins (2 return early).
L-42 (Dietrich) fortuitously detonates a Ramsgate naval ammo store, but
L-48 (Schütze, Strasser’s deputy) hounded to death from c.13,000ft over Suffolk by 3 RFC aircraft after suffering double engine failure (night June 17-18, 3 survivors).
L-42 and
L-63 lie in their shed:
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French artillery observers on top of a ruined church tower at Villers-les-Roye: © IWM (Q 61252):
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A French soldier in the trenches at Hirtzbach woods:
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French soldiers posing in a trench at Haut-Rhin:
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Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Offensive north of Asiago: Italians vainly attack Austrian Mt Ortigara positions all day, losses over 6,000 soldiers.
Greece: Allied food blockade of Greece raised on June 16.
Political, etc
Russia: Opening in Petrograd of All-Russian Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates.
France: President of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae blames “lack of modesty, of moderation” as the cause of the world war.
United States: Inventor Thomas Edison states “each of us should work a little harder than he has ever worked before” in order to win the war.
Sweden: Peace terms of German Socialist delegates to Stockholm published.