Western Front
France: NIVELLE DISMISSED AND REPLACED BY PETAIN as Commander-in-Chief of French Northern and North-Eastern Groups of Armies. Petain assumes command on May 17. FOCH APPOINTED Chief of the French General Staff of French Ministry of War in Paris.
Artois: Heavy fighting round Bullecourt (British secure May 17, advance northeast on May 19).
Aisne: Heavy fighting on Chemin des Dames.
Meuse: French trench raids in the Woevre and in Lorraine.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Badoglio’s II Corps storms Mt Kuk (2004 ft) and Vodice ridge. Italians claim 4,021 PaWs so far, Austrians 2,000 on Carso.
Salonika: British 10th and 28th divisions capture 3 villages in 3 1/2 mile advance east of Struma on 9-mile front (until May 16), taking 89 PoWs from Bulgarian 7th Div, but prepare to withdraw to summer line from May 26.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Adriatic – Otranto Action (largest in Straits): 3 Austrian cruisers (including Horthy’s flagship Novara) and 2 destroyers with 13 aircraft and 3 U-boats support sink 2 destroyers (Italian Borea and French Boutefeu); 14 Royal Navy armed trawlers (72 PoWs) and damage 4 out of 47; 2 merchantmen plus 1 seaplane out of 13 aircraft. Vainly and chaotically pursued by Allies (21 ships) including cruisers Bristol and Dartmouth (latter torpedoed by UC-25 but eventually reaches Malta). New Italian flotilla leader Aquila disabled by shot through steam pipe. Horthy wounded and Novara taken in tow but operational again in 8 days.
Brindisi: Rear-Admiral Bolio superseded. Otranto Barrage restricted to daylight use.
U.S.A. destroyer-flotilla arrives in British waters.
British transport Cameronia torpedoed in Mediterranean, 140 men lost.

Political, etc
Sweden: German Socialists are refused passports for Stockholm.
Spain: (Special, 1793): Inventor Diego Marín Aguilera, the "father of aviation" in Spain, flew one of the first gliders for about 300 yd (270m).

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Western Front
Artois: Battles of Arras end BEF has regained 61 sq miles, taken 20,834 PoWs and 252 guns in 38 days. British repulse counter-attacks north of Gavrelle.
British hold on Siegfried line, north-east of Bullecourt, extended.
King Albert I of Belgium inspecting Australian troops in the ruined town of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 3125: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...8623233/photo/1
French make appreciable advance east of Craonne.
French soldier reading a map of the area of Mont Sans Nom: © IWM (Q 78893): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...7503488/photo/1

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians claim 4,021 prisoners in last two days' advance in Carso and on Vodice. Austrians claim 2,000 prisoners in the Carso.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Adriatic: Austrian U-5 mined and sunk off Pola but raised and reused.
General Van Deventer succeeds General Hoskins in East Africa.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: CoS Arz (to Czernin) believes Russian Army collapse will obviate need for armistice talks.
Germany: German Chancellor indicates lines of peace with Russia.
Russia: Cabinet reshuffle admits 6 Petrograd Soviet Menshevik members. M. Aleksandr Kerenski succeeds General Aleksandr Guchkov as Russian Minister for War (see March 15th and November 8th). M. Mikhail Tereshchenko succeeds M. Pavel Milyukov as Russian Foreign minister (see March 15th and November 8th). Kerensky, as War Minister is visited at Petrograd by all the C-in-Cs.
Trotsky arrives in Petrograd (from April 3 internment in Canada). Lev Davidovich Bronstein, called Trotsky: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...otzki.jpg?ssl=1
France: (Listed for yesterday): 2000 French women clothing workers go on strike in Paris, calling for increased pay and a 5-day workweek. Strike spreads to other industries.
United Kingdom: Suffrage bill is introduced in the House of Commons to give women over the age of 30 the right to vote.
Mr. Lloyd George proposes Home Rule (for Ireland) at once and suggests Convention.
United States: Aircraft Production Board set up.
A “portable hospital” designed by the Rockefeller Institute for use near the front is revealed: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...6490240/photo/1

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Western Front
France: Belgian King Albert tours British Somme, Aisne and Arras battlefields. Petain’s Directive No.1 rejects breakthrough aim ‘for the moment.’ King Albert I inspecting a Belgian heavy artillery armored train near Saint-Pol: © IWM (Q 2202): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...7903746/photo/1
French Army Mutinies: On 16–17 May, there were disturbances in a Chasseur battalion of the 127th Division and a regiment of the 18th Division. Two days later a battalion of the 166th Division staged a demonstration and on 20 May the 128th Regiment of the 3rd Division and the 66th Regiment of the 18th Division refused orders; individual incidents of insubordination occurred in the 17th Division. Over the next two days spokesmen were elected in two regiments of the 69th Division to petition for an end to the offensive. By 28 May mutinies broke out in the 9th Division, 158th Division, 5th Division and 1st Cavalry Division. By the end of May more units of the 5th, 6th, 13th, 35th, 43rd, 62nd, 77th and 170th divisions mutinied and revolts occurred in 21 divisions in May. A record 27,000 French soldiers deserted in 1917; the offensive was suspended on 9 May.

Eastern Front
Intense Central Powers’ fire on Russian trenches near Kukhary (Kovel).

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians hold gains with British 6-inch howitzer help despite repeated Austrian counter-attacks. Cadorna orders medium and heavy artillery fire only for attacks or enemy counter-attacks due to shell shortage, guns being moved south to Carso.
Italian troops take the town of Duino on the Adriatic coast, and claim total Austro-Hungarian prisoners taken reach 4,021.
Behind the Austro-Hungarian lines potatoes are peeled: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...aelen.jpg?ssl=1
Serbia: Last French attacks in Crna bend and north of Monastir fail against German counter-attacks with 1,113 casualties. Serrail fails to get Serb First Army (Misic) into action.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Picture of an Arab fighter riding a camel taken by T.E. Lawrence: © IWM (Q 59183): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9425280/photo/1
Kurds attack Russian rear near Khanikan.
Mesopotamian Commission's report presented.

Political, etc
Germany: Austro-German Kreuznach Agreement (until May 18): Austria to get Balkans territory for letting Germany have Poland and Baltic gains (Czernin’s peace effort thwarted).
United Kingdom: The British Admiralty appoint a Committee, in conjunction with the Ministry of Shipping, to draw up a plan to convoy merchant ships (see June 14th and July 2nd). [ed note: there is a lot of controversy surrounding this decision. Lloyd George claims it was as a result of a visit to Whitehall; others in Parliament claims it was the result obtained following on a Cabinet decision; the records seem to show that the decision to appoint such a committee was taken by the Admiralty a few days to a week prior to Lloyd George’s visit to Whitehall.]
(Listed for yesterday): Philip Snowden, Socialist Member of Parliament, declares if peace does not come soon, Allied countries will be threatened by revolution.
British Director of Food Economy defends the continued brewing of beer in the country, stating it counts as food and is necessary.
Annual meetings of Imperial Cabinet announced.
Serbia: Radomir Putnik, former Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...8138880/photo/1
United States: U.S. National Confectioners’ Association adopts a resolution proposing a 2-cent coin, as “penny candy goods” have risen in cost.
U.S. Secretary of War says that due to the lack of supplies, the U.S. will not be able to mobilize 500,000 men until September 1st. [Ed Note: remember the “wild promises” mentioned earlier ?]
U.S.A. Minister in Belgium issues damning report on German deportations.
Minor Allies: Honduras severs diplomatic relations with Germany (see July 19th, 1918).

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: A battalion of the 166th Division staged a protest demonstration against further futile offensives.
France: Haig meets Petain at Amiens, latter says British Flanders plans too ambitious, former’s diary finds Petain ‘businesslike, knowledgeable and brief of speech’.
British officers training on horseback near Arras: © IWM (Q 2155): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9606784/photo/1
Aisne: French easily repulse slight attacks on Chemin des Dames California plateau (until May 19). Germans regain 200 yards on May 20.
Artillery activity near Fresnoy.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians extend their hold on Vodice and Hill 652.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: 918 British river craft and 148 on order from India.
Palestine: EEF begins offensive patrols in Gaza sector.


Political, etc
Russia: The Duma urges loyalty to Allies on Provisional Government.
United Kingdom: John Buchan reports on poor ‘public feeling’, urges more domestic propaganda. Cabinet agrees on May 22 to a campaign to ‘counter-attack the pacifist movement’.
Several labour leaders in Sheffield, England are arrested under the Defense of Realm Act for organizing a strike in defiance of their unions.
United States: Selective Conscription Act for men aged 21-31. 500,000 to be mustered in September. A blindfolded volunteer draws out the assigned numbers of some of those Americans to fight on the Western Front: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...n-act.jpg?ssl=1
US Base Hospital No 4 (243 staff) reaches Britain (first US soldiers to do so).
Minor Allies: Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Germany (see May 8th, 1918).

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Several mutinies a day now reported in French Army. When Nivelle’s offensive yielded only a few miles of ground at a cost of 200,000 casulaties the grumble became a mutiny in the French Army: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...umble.jpg?ssl=1
German attack French trenches along the Chemin des Dames with flamethrowers and gain ground.
British soldiers salvaging a statue head from the ruins of the Chateau at Caulaincourt: © IWM (Q 2252): https://t.co/zQH39qGtVp
German prisoners are made to reassemble captured German guns for the Allies: https://t.co/OpP6w35QSo
British push forward beyond Bullecourt.

Eastern Front
Russian Army at the front remains passive.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians evacuate temporary Bodrez Isonzo bridgehead and repulse Austrian night attack on Vodice (night May 19-20).

Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: 4 Russian submarines sail from Reval on year’s first patrol, Bars sunk on May 28 either mined or depth charged off Norrkoeping, Sweden. Second group also has no success. Kerensky speaks at Helsinki naval base (May 23).

Political, etc
Russia: Russian Provisional Government issue declaration repudiating a separate peace but general one to be without annexations or sanctions.
United Kingdom: Settlement with Amalgamated Society of Engineers agreed on.
United States: United States Government announce decision to send a Division of the United States Army to France at once (see June 25th).
Former President Roosevelt asks the White House for permission to raise 2 divisions to fight in Europe.

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Western Front
Champagne: French take 500 PoWs in Moronvilliers sector (other minor successes on May 21 and 25).
End of Second Battle of the Aisne.
Artois: BEF Fifth Army actions on Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) (until May 31), British 33rd Division captures whole first line north of Bullecourt.
British force line near Fontaine-lez-Croisilles.
Australian dispatch rider on a motorcycle carrying a basket holding carrier pigeons: © IWM (E(AUS) 646): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...6786816/photo/1
Germans gain 200 yards north-east of Cerny.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Austrian “attacks” on the Carso beaten off.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Germany: Kaiser finally orders German Navy to regard US warships in blockaded zone as hostile (U-boats told to stay 4 miles off Spanish coast on May 29).
Western Mediterranean: Italian-built Russian submarine Svyatoi Georgi commissioned at Spezia, sails 5,000 miles (June-September) to join Arctic Ocean Flotilla.
A flying boat of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) destroys the first hostile submarine to be sunk by an aircraft without any form of assistance. A 'Large America' flying boat flown by Flight Sub-Lieutenant C.R. Morrish, Royal Naval Air Service, on a 'Spider Web' patrol from Felixstowe sighted and attacked the German submarine UC-36 on the surface near the North Hinder Light Ship. Destruction of the submarine was confirmed in January 1919. Another source claims: two other attacks during May. But UC-36 actually lost on May 17 or 18 off Isle of Wight, probably to mine.

Political, etc
Russia: Kerensky begins visiting units. Aleksandr Kerensky (left) takes a salute at a military parade: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...arade.jpg?ssl=1
Brawl between Russian and Royal Navy armored car unit at Tiraspol (Bessarabia), 1 killed on each side.
Russian Provisional Government declares it will not annex new territory, but will still fight to free occupied areas.
United Kingdom: Parliamentary committee report warns that “industrial fatigue” among British workers due to war conditions threatens production.
Canada: Conscription bill in Canada announced and well received.
Serbia: Serbian Govermnent-in-Exile transferred from Corfu to Salonika (see February 9th, 1916 and December 9th, 1918).
United States: President Wilson refuses former President Roosevelt’s request to personally raise troops to fight in Europe. The only way this could have been fulfilled was by taking arms & supplies needed by the regular Army.
U.S.A. Division to start at once for France under General Pershing.

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: The 128th Regiment of the 3rd Division and the 66th Regiment of the 18th Division refused orders; individual incidents of insubordination occurred in the 17th Division. Even in regiments where there was direct confrontation, such as the 74th Infantry Regiment, the men did not harm their officers; they simply refused to return to the trenches. Most mutineers were veterans who did not refuse to fight but wanted the military authorities to be more attentive to the realities of modern war.
Artois: British now hold advanced line of Hindenburg Line from Bullecourt to 1 mile east of Arras (with a 2,000-yard gap) and make gains on Fontaine-les-Croisilles.
Flanders: British Messines Ridge bombardment begins with 144,000t of shells brought up since March. 2,250 guns fire 3,258,000 shells until June 7.
Preparing a British 12-inch BL Siege Howitzer for action with a lot of shells: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...e-how.jpg?ssl=1
British troops now control 11 miles of the Hindenburg line, bar 2000 yards of trenches still held by the Germans.
Canadian soldier inside the breach of a big howitzer: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...0007168/photo/1
French claim great success on Moronvilliers ridge and ground held.
Activity on California Plateau and near Craonne.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians foil Austrian Tavignolo valley attacks.
Macedonia: At Serbian request Sarrail ends Allied spring offensive after 14,000 casualties for minimal gains.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Yet another claim about UC-36: German submarine UC-36, which sunk 22 merchant ships and 2 warships, is rammed and sunk by a French steamer.
East Africa: Max Wintgens (disabled by typhus, captured by Belgian 6th Battalion and allowed to keep sword, May 23) hands over to Lieutenant Naumann 469 German troops with 2 guns and 12 MGs. They cross Central Railway west of Malongwe 2 miles from 4th Nigerian Battalion on May 26.

Political, etc
USA to France: (Special, 1927): Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, American aviator Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight, flying from Roosevelt Field near New York City to Paris–Le Bourget Airport.
Germany: Berlin residents are warned that the government may not be able to fulfill potato rations. Pork will only be sold on Thursday.
Russia: M. Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions, speaks with effect in Moscow.
France: French Parliamentary investigations are announced over the disappointing results of the offensives at the Aisne and Champagne fronts.
United Kingdom: British govt says grain stocks will last for 12 weeks, which is long enough for the harvest, but warns against any increase in consumptions.
Female workers unloading boxes of artillery shells at a depot in Newbury: © IWM (Q 110256): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...6348160/photo/1
Premier Lloyd George proposes in Parliament a constitutional convention for Ireland to decide its fate.
Debate in House of Commons on proposed Irish Convention.
Portugal: Members of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force having fun for the camera: © IWM (IWM FLM 2370): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9352066/photo/1
United States: A fire devastates large parts of Atlanta, Georgia, destroying 1900 buildings and displacing 10,000 people.
Cuba: Inauguration of Mario García Menocal for his 2nd term as President of Cuba: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...0440576/photo/1

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: In Soissons, Villers-Cotterêts, Fère-en-Tardenois and Cœuvres-et-Valsery, troops refused to obey their officers' orders or to go to the front.
Confused fighting on Arras front; successful French actions on the River Aisne front. French troops on the Champagne front repel three attacks by the Germans and claim the capture of 1000 prisoners during the assaults.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians frustrate Austro-Hungarian attacks in Travignolo valley.
Macedonia: Battle of the Vardar ends (see 5th).

Naval and Overseas Operations
Eastern Mediterranean: British Malta-Alexandria convoys begin (4 ships with 4 escort trawlers, only 2 ships lost until July 16).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Demolition of 13 miles of Hejaz Railway by Anzac Mounted Brigade and Camel Corps.


Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Prime minister Count Tisza of Hungary resigns at Emperor’s bidding.
Russia: Kerensky demands CoS Alexeiev resignation, replaces him with Brusilov. Alexej Brusilov headed the successful Russian offensive in 1916, which was named after him: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...silow.jpg?ssl=1
France: Premier Ribot announces French war aims: the assurance of lasting peace, “restoration” of Alsace-Lorraine, & reparations from Germany. Premier Ribot also states that during the recent French offensives “there were some excessive hopes and some errors of execution…”
United Kingdom: Postwar shortage of 500,000 houses estimated. Brigade-General Nash succeeds Sir E Geddes as Inspector-General Transportation.
American Red Cross contingent arrives in London: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...1456900/photo/1
United States: Former President Roosevelt states he will do “everything” in his power to help Liberty Loans, which will fund the U.S. war effort.
In what is described as a “carnival” atmosphere, 5000 people in Memphis, Tennessee lynch Ell Persons, who was accused of rape & murder.
China: Crisis in China; President replaces Tuan-chi-jui by Wu Ting Fang, as Prime Minister.
Brazil: President Brás of Brazil urges the Brazilian Congress to give up neutrality due to Germany’s submarine warfare.

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: No additional developments today; previous protests and insubordination continue.
6 German Navy airships fly against London but nearest 40 miles away; (1 fatal casualty to 60 scattered bombs) (night May 23/24). 76 defence sorties only sight 1 Zeppelin, and 1 plane of Royal Navy Air Service failed to return.
Germans make early attack on Vauclere Plateau (Craonne), ‘heavily’ repulsed.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: From Kostanjevica to sea aided by 60 British guns and Royal Navy monitors begins with 6-hour barrage from 0600 hours, attack at 1600 hours with 130 aircraft in close support. Four hills stormed. Austrian attacks beaten off on May 24. An Italian military photographer pictures the events at the front: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ograf.jpg?ssl=1
Gabriele D’Annunzio flies in aircraft over Carso, wins third Silver Medal, promoted Major on September 29.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Demonstration and raid by mounted troops on Bir-es-Saba.

Political, etc
France: Return to France of Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani from U.S.A.
United Kingdom: M. Aleksandr Isvolski appointed Ambassador in London (subsequently cancelled).

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: In 1967, Guy Pedroncini examined French military archives, discovering that by the end of May, 49 infantry divisions were destabilized and experienced repeated episodes of mutiny. Of the 49, nine divisions were gravely affected by mutinous behavior; fifteen were seriously affected and twenty five divisions were affected by isolated but repeated instances of mutinous behavior. As the French Army comprised 113 infantry divisions by the end of 1917, 43% had been affected.
French line round Craonne improved.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italian troops at the Isonzo Battle advance on a 10-mile front, taking several towns and claim 9000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: First homeward-bound British transatlantic convoy sails from Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA, arrives safely despite fog and rough seas, 1 straggler lost to U-boat (4 convoys follow in June with 60 ships, no losses).
A convoy of merchant ships which is escorted by warships crosses the Atlantic. With the introduction of the convoy system, the rate of sunken merchant ships drops while the sunken submarines are rising: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...hiffe.jpg?ssl=1
First U-cruiser patrol (2 5.9in-guns and 18 torpedoes) begins: U-155 (Kptlt Karl Meusel) sinks 10 steamers and 7 sailing ships in 104 days or 52,000t (until September 4) on 10,220-mile voyage, longest yet.
Adriatic: French submarine Circe torpedoes and sinks UC-24 off Cattaro, one of the few (possibly only) kills by a French submarine in the war. Two Royal Navy monitors shell Prosecco crossroads and airfield near Trieste despite Austrian seaplane attacks (1 bomb hit, 1 shot down).

Political, etc
England to Australia: (Special, 1930): English aviatrix Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to successfully fly from England to Australia.
Russia: Kerensky’s Declaration of the Rights of Soldiers (published on May 27).
Russian Provisional Government announces it has raised 145 million Rubles through its “Liberty” loan.
United Kingdom: Mr. Bonar Law on German finance.
United States: Prince Udine’s Italian War Mission sees Wilson (landed New York on May 9-10): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...6916100/photo/1
Harry Lane, Oregon Senator who supported women’s suffrage and Native American rights and voted against entering the war, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...3204864/photo/1
U.S. House of Representatives approves a $1.857 billion war tax bill by a vote of 329 to 76.
U.S. government bans its citizens from attending the Socialist conference in Stockholm and warns “heavy punishment” for those who still go.
Madagascar: Ranavalona III, the deposed Queen and last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...6520448/photo/1

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: No additional developments today; previous protests and insubordination continue.
Great Britain: TheGerman Air Corps mounts its first large-scale daylight raid on Britain (Kent and Folkestone) to cause heavy casualties. Twentythree Gotha bombers of Kagohl 3 are despatched to attack London, but two are forced to turn back over the North Sea due to mechanical difficulties. Poor weather forced the attacking force to turn away from the capital and seek targets further south. The main attack is carried out against the Channel port of Folkestone and the nearby Army camp at Shorncliffe. 95 deaths and 195 other casualties, over half civilians (see December 21st, 1914 and July 20th and August 5th, 1918) result from the raid, mostly in the Folkestone area. While returning from the raid, the Gothas are engaged near the Belgian coast by nine Sopwith Pups of No.4 and No.9 Squadrons, Royal Naval Air Service, based at Dunkirk and one Gotha bomber is shot down. Bombs in position under the fuselage and wing of a Gotha bomber prior to a mission against London: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Gotha.jpg?ssl=1
Home Defence Group allotted 20 extra fighters.
Georges Guynemer achieves 4 kills in one day (total 45).
The devastated street of Croisilles, France: © IWM (Q 2254): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9254401/photo/1
French colonial troops of the Madagascar Regiment working on reconstructing the ruins Chavignon: © IWM (Q 78883): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...5860609/photo/1
British advance towards Fontaine-lez-Croiselles.
German success near Braye (Chemin des Dames); French success round Mt. Cornillet (Moronvilliers).

Eastern Front
Russia: Kerensky’s Order for the Offensive of the Army and Fleet declares exhorts ‘Without discipline there can be no safety’.
Bukovina: Kornilov takes over Russian Eighth Army from Kaledin.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians take two villages and clear Hudi Log salient, and claim 2,000 PoWs. Italian troops in their trenches on the Isonzo front waiting for the order to go over the top: © IWM (Q 114388): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9722112/photo/1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: U-boat sinks Armed Merchant Cruiser Hilary (4 lifes lost).

Political, etc
United Kingdom: British government ends all financial speculations on food in order to prevent rising food costs. Mr. Lloyd George issues statement re: submarine menace and food supplies.
Canada: Anti-conscription parade in Montreal’s Victoria Square: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...1370880/photo/1
Ireland: (listed for yesterday): Sinn Fein demands the right for Ireland to secede from Britain and better treatment for prisoners captured during the Easter Rising.
Italy: (listed for yesterday): Italy observes the 3rd year since it entered the war.
United States: An American Red Cross course at Teachers College, demonstrating how to bandage the head and leg: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...3225601/photo/1
U.S. government criticizes businesses that fire immigrant employees based on their citizenship, as it violates “national good sense.”

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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: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...nce-1.jpg?ssl=1
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: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...3151105/photo/1
A tent being used as a telephone exchange near Albert: © IWM (Q 2243): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...4663168/photo/1
British troops clearing rubble around a statue of the Virgin Mary at Montauban: © IWM (Q 2240): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...9730560/photo/1

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: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...3353220/photo/1
Brazil: Brazil annuls its neutrality decree.

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Amazing ... and that's when ships of 10,000 tons were considered pretty big. Not like today when there are ships well over 100,000 tons.

Western Front
French Army Mutinies: French 18th Infantry Regiment’s 2nd Battalion (844 casualties from May 4-8) mutinies at Villers sur Fare (until May 28), 12 court-martialled, 5 sentenced to death, 3 executed. Worst disorders at Fare-en-Tardenois rail station (until May 28) as mutineers try to reach Paris. From mid-May the militant ‘midinettes’ (Parisian working-girls) paraded the Paris boulevards and demonstrations and strikes became frequent, while sympathizing troops joined in the anti-war campaign: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ettes.jpg?ssl=1
Skirmishing on Champagne, Verdun and Alsace fronts.
A shell bursting just meters away from a British dressing station on the Western Front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...8224896/photo/1
British troops playing cards even as a shell lands in the background: © IWM (Q 2259): https://t.co/3INewwbmI9
British, French, and Belgian aeroplanes bombard German defenses on the Belgian coast at Heist, Blackenberge, and Zeebrugge.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italian troops capture the village of San Giovanni from Austria-Hungary and cross the Timavo River, lose and regain Hill 126, east of Gorizia. Austro-Hungarians claim 13,000 prisoners.
Macedonia: 10 Royal Navy Air Service and Royal Flying Corps aircraft destroyed in hangar explosion at Marian airfield, 9 casualties. Disaster kept secret for many weeks.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Germans threaten to sink at sight all hospital ships in Mediterranean.

Political, etc
Germany: Official statistics show German birthrates in the 26 largest German cities have dropped by 38.3% since 1914.
Announced that 600 German daily papers ceased publication since beginning of war
Russia: Reported that 30,000 deserters pass through Kiev daily.
United States: Children at an “Americanization” rally in New York City: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...8638724/photo/1

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Mutinies broke out in the 9th Division, 158th Division, 5th Division and 1st Cavalry Division.
Aisne: Unsuccessful German attack near Hurtebise.

Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italian guns within 10 miles of Trieste. Cadorna orders preparations for summer Isonzo offensive. Austro-Hungarian counter-stroke on Carso regains little.
In Plava sector Italians drive Austro-Hungarians to end of Globna valley. Claim nearly 24,000 prisoners in last fortnight.
A Italian trench on the Carso. The Carso plateau, a howling wilderness of stones, sharp as knives, had eventually been taken by the Italians for a terrifying loss of lives and of morale: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...carso.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
France: French Socialists decide to attend Stockholm Conference.
MM. Ribot, Cambon, Painleve, and General Foch's agreement with War Cabinet in London.
United Kingdom: Anglo-French Conference assembles in London to discuss the deposition of King Constantine of Greece and the occupation of Athens and Thessaly (continued on 29th) (see June 11th).
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declares British Empire had “staked its last dollar on democracy.”
Canada: Mr. Balfour's remarkable reception at Toronto University.
Serbia: Serbians, Montenegrins, and other Yugoslavians in Entente countries voice opposition to Italy’s move to control the Adriatic coast.
United States: More than 20 Americans have been arrested for opposing the draft, with antiwar demonstrations occurring in several U.S. cities.
Race riots begin in East St. Louis, with several deaths & 1,500 African Americans driven away after Whites set fire to their homes.
China: Li Jingxi is approved as the new Premier of the Chinse Republic: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...8324097/photo/1
Brazil: Brazilian Congress votes 136 to 3 in the first reading of a measure to end Brazilian neutrality in the war.

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