Western Front
Flanders: At dusk, 15 German battalions attack Nieuport: Fierce artillery duels. German marines advance near Lombaertzyde on 1,400-yard front east of Yser mouth and take over 1,000 PoWs; 2 British platoons surrounded, fight to last man. 1st and 32nd Divisions otherwise hold. More German attacks repulsed on July 14. German objective is to prevent British plans to land on the Belgian coast.
A column of German soldiers moving up into attack positions among the dunes near Nieuwpoort (Belgian spelling): © IWM (Q 29876):
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Gasmask for men and donkey:
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King George V inspecting men of the South African Native Labour Corps at Abbeville: © IWM (Q 2573):
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Eastern Front
Galicia: “Kerensky” Or “Second Brusilov (Summer)” Offensive: Kornilov takes Halicz (now Halych, Ukraine) with 2,000 PoWs, Kalusz (July 11), crosses river Lomnica (July 12). By July 13 total Russian PoW haul 36,643.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Egypt: Lawrence meets Allenby at Cairo, gains £200,000 monthly subsidy for Arabs (later £500,000) apart from £16,000 in gold for Aqaba.
Mesopotamia: British occupy Madhij Defile 18 miles west of Falluja on Euphrates; 2 German airmen surrender on foot at Samarra.
Political, etc
Germany: German Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg: “We cannot declare our terms of peace. We must fight and conquer.”
United Kingdom: Associated Press reports that 7,000,000 seven-penny and shilling books have been sent to soldiers at the front.
Official statement gives British captures on all fronts since beginning of war as 117,772 prisoners and 759 guns.