Western Front
Britain: Cabinet assures Haig of its approval and wholehearted support for his offensive.
Germany: Ludendorff confidential instruction warns against spread of ‘political propaganda’ in German Army, ordering minute examination of all letters for the front.
Aisne: German “attacks” repulsed north of river (until July 27). Another source more accurately states: Heavy artillery fire and multiple raids take place between British and German lines at Ypres.
Champagne: German attacks at Mt Haut (and on July 27) repulsed.
Women drivers for the British Army’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in Dieppe, France: © IWM (Q 5744):
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Eastern Front
Galicia: German 1 st Guard Division takes Tarnopol and crosses river Sereth on July 26 watched by Kaiser. Austrian Third Army retakes Kolomea on July 26.
The 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death goes into action for the first time in Galicia and capture a German trench:
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Russian retreat in East Galicia continues; towns evacuated, positions in Carpathians abandoned.
Battle of Marasesti: Minor Russo-Romanian advance in southern Moldavia.
In this picture the post of Austro-Hungarian soldiers is sorted behind the Eastern Front:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: 5-7 Royal Navy Air Service Sopwith Pups or Camels cover Belgian coast net barrage laying (until July 27) and destroy 3 German aircraft.
Political, etc
France: Full Inter-Allied Conference assembles in Paris to discuss the Balkan situation, with military, naval and political committees to discuss plans in view of a probable collapse of Russia (Conference continued on 26th).
Canada: Canadian House of Commons pass the conscription bill by a majority of 54. Most of the opposition came from Québécois MPs.
An explosion occurs at a coal mine in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, resulting in 65 dead and over 100 injured:
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Ireland: Irish Convention, opening meeting, Sir H. Plunket in the Chair.
Japan: The Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Corporation (now known as Nikon) is established in Tokyo, Japan.
United States: Airplane factory in College Point, Queens, New York City:
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