Keep up the good work. No loss of interest here.

Western Front
French Army Mutinies: First 2 French mutineers executed, outbreaks already receding (June 7), only 20 executed until July 2. Petain speaks to an exmutinous regtiment (June 19) and brings tears to the soldiers’ eyes, visits almost 90 divisions in June and July. The French commander-in-chief sympathizes with a soldier’s complaint. Petain handled the mutinies with sternness and humanity, but he knew much was wrong with the army: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...diers.jpg?ssl=1
Battle of Messines Ridge: At the Messines Battle, night raids by British troops succeed in extending their lines. The front is relatively calm the rest of the day.
British soldiers taking a break smoking at the ruins of Marten’s Farm near Wytschaete: © IWM (Q 5479): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...495199380647936
A British officer in a captured German trench writing a letter home: © IWM (Q 2308): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...827266840719361

Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Offensive north of Asiago with 12 divisions; 1,500 guns and mortars on 9-mile front but signals and deserters have alerted Austrian Eleventh Army. Barrage (including gas shell) from 0515 hours in near zero visibility (mist) till 1100 hours. Alpini assault from 1100 hours captures Agnello Pass and Peak 2101 (6,794ft) of Mt Ortigaro with 500 PoWs but Austrians retain Height 2105 (6,906ft). Attacks by 5 other divisions on 5 other peaks to south fail. Italian Sixth Army C-in-C Mambretti fails to persuade Cadorna to call off offensive, he allows only 48-hour pause.
Captured Austro-Hungarian prisoners taken by the Italians: © IWM (Q 103663): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...525387044827137
Greece:French regiment and guns land at Corinth and French (mainly cavalry) division enters Thessaly, takes Larissa for 6 killed, captures 300 royalists in only bloodshed on June 12.
Italian troops take over Janina (Ioannina), Greece, drawing protests from Greek authorities.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Opening of operations which drive Germans from estuary of Lukuledi river (German East Africa).

Political, etc
France: Interior Minister cables 83 prefects for morale reports, 44 say ‘poor’ or ‘indifferent’, 36 towns ‘contaminated’.
United Kingdom: Labour Trafalgar Square demo for world’s industrial workers.
Ireland: Sinn Fein riots in Dublin

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Suppression & executions continue; otherwise, no further developments.
Battle of Messines Ridge: British progress on mile front south-east of Messines; La Potterie system captured.
In light of the German air raids on Britain, a Cabinet Committee is set up to consider air organisation and air defence. Although nominally under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in practice the Committee consisted solely of Lieutenant General Jan C. Smuts.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers and other troops having fun with captured German equipment: © IWM (Q 5629): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...857568636116992

Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Offensive north of Asiago: Austrians reinforce front line until June 13 and send 4 battalions forward for counter-attack on June 15.
Greece: French troops land at Corinth, and Franco-British force enters Thessaly.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Japanese destroyer Sakaki is torpedoed off Malta by Austro-Hungarian submarine U-27, resulting in 59 Japanese deaths.
Channel: British drifter destroys 2 German seaplanes.
Baltic: Russian submarine Lvitsa sunk off Gotland (probably by mine), sister Pantera damaged by Zeppelin on June 14 and forced back to base.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Murray told he will be replaced (leaves on June 16). British 52nd Division trench raid causes over 62 Turk casualties near Gaza.


Political, etc
Russia: Petrograd Soviet issues statement opposing “an imperialistic war in the name of liberation of nations.”
United Kingdom: Sailors and Firemen's Union refuse to let Mr. R. Macdonald and MP Fred Jowett from sailing to Petrograd due to their pacifist positions.
Canada: Canadian Premier Sir Robert Borden states Canada has suffered 99,000 casualties and thus conscription is necessary.
Portugal: Senor Dato forms Cabinet.
United States: Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, arrives in the U.S. to help coordinate British-U.S. cooperation.
Publication of message from President Wilson to Russian Government: no people to be ‘forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live’.
Minor Allies: Santo Domingo severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
Greece: Entente Governments present demand to Greek Government for abdication of King Constantine (see 12th and May 28th). Subsequent abdication of King Constantine of Greece in favor of his second son, Alexander.
King Constantine I of Greece: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...934143314374656
Alexander, the new King of Greece: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...935415690096643

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Suppression & executions continue; otherwise, no further developments.
Battle of Messines Ridge: British advance on two-mile front east and north-east of Messines.
French Malagasy (Madagascar) soldier at Leuilly-sous-Coucy: © IWM (Q 78452): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...252532540821505

Eastern Front
Russian artillery guns renew heavy bombardment of German positions in Galicia and Volhynia.

Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Offensive north of Asiago: No further developments this day.
Salonika: British withdraw back across to river Struma (until June 14) to avoid summer malaria.
Greece: Allied forces occupy Larissa (Thessaly) and Corinth.

Naval and Overseas Operations
German submarine SM UC-66 is sunk by the HMT Sea King by a depth charge with loss of all crew.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Fort of Salif (Red Sea) destroyed by British naval forces.
Armenia: General Prjewalski replaces Yudenich as Russian C-in-C.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Publication of British reply to Russian Note on war aims, and of French message regarding Russian proclamation of 9 April 1917.
Labour Leader Ramsay Macdonald give up plans to visit Russia due to popular opposition toward his pacifist views.

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Because of the mutinies, the French high command became reluctant to initiate another major offensive. General Petain's strategy in late 1917 was to wait for the deployment of the American Expeditionary Forces and the introduction in battle of the new and highly effective Renault FT tanks. Hence his statement at the time: "J'attends les chars et les américains" (I am waiting for the tanks and the Americans). He had the support of Prime Minister Clemenceau, who told President Woodrow Wilson in June 1917 that France planned, "to wait for the Americans & meanwhile not lose more... I like Pétain... just because he won't attack."
Battle of Messines Ridge: Britain claims 7,432 German prisoners and 47 artillery guns were captured in the past 6 days in Flanders.
The first heavy daylight raid on London takes place when eighteen Gotha bombers of the German Army Air Corps attack the capital, causing 588 casualties, including 162 deaths (other sources vary these numbers slightly). Although a number of interceptions were made, no German aircraft were shot down by defending fighters. Gothas on return repel Bristol Fighter (observer mortally wounded), one of 94 defence sorties. Brandenburg awarded Pour le Merite but injured in crash (June 19) returning from Kreuznach. No 56 Fighter (SE5) Squadron temporarily withdrawn from France as a result (June 21 – July 5).
British soldiers on leave embarking for England at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France: © IWM (Q 80068): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...578382863949824

Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Offensive north of Asiago: Austro-Hungarian attack on Mt. Ortigara repulsed.
Thessaly: Trikala and Volo (Thessaly) occupied by Allies.

Naval and Overseas Operations
H.M.S. Avenger, merchant cruiser, sunk by submarine.

Political, etc
France: Major-General Pershing arrives in France (see 8th and May 10th): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...616140781289472
A crowd gathers to greet the arrival of Lieutenant General Pershing: © IWM (Q 5508): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...617394454331392
5,000 women workers strike with red flags in Toulouse ammunition factory (until June 18), win 30-50% pay rise. 32 die in Renault Paris factory collapse.
United Kingdom: Serious explosion in munitions factory at Ashton-under-Lyne, resulting in 43 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
United States: Waldemar von Nostiz, writer for a German newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio, is arrested by federal agents for writing pro-German editorials.

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Western Front
Battle of Messines Ridge: German withdrawal between St. Yves and the Lys. Successful British attacks near Messines. Third Australian Division attack Infantry Hill (east of Monchy-le-Preux) (lose ground on June 18, regain it on June 20). End of Battle of Messines.
Zeppelin L-43 destroyed by naval fighter forces in North Sea.
British soldiers in the ruins of Thélus, France watches as artillery shells burst in the background: © IWM (Q 2378): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...933220705521665

Southern Front
Greece: British detachment lands at Piraeus after c.9,500 French soldiers on June 12. 500 British soldiers reinforce French at Larissa on June 16 also to gain grain supplies.

Naval and Overseas Operations
The British Admiralty Formally approve, scheme for convoying merchant ships (see May 17th aud July 2nd).
The Germany Navy made extensive use of Zeppelins for scouting, but communications problems reduced their theoretical effectiveness: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...pelin.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Count M. Esterhazy becomes Hungarian Prime Minister.
Russia: Arrival in Petrograd of Senator Root and U.S. Mission.
Canada: The Canadian Parliament Building being rebuilt after last year’s fire: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...963441437593600
United States: U.S. government loans an additional $25 million to the British government, bringing the total loan amount to $500 million.
The U.S. celebrates its 140th Flag Day today: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...993652833144834
China: Troops loyal to Li Yuanhong, the pro-German President of China, occupies Peking after dissolving the Chinese parliament.
Greece: King Constantine leaves country on June 14.

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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.

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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: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...2-L63.jpg?ssl=1
French artillery observers on top of a ruined church tower at Villers-les-Roye: © IWM (Q 61252): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...646693256986626
A French soldier in the trenches at Hirtzbach woods: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...676915474018307
French soldiers posing in a trench at Haut-Rhin: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...678115841888256

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.

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Suppression & executions continue; otherwise, no further developments.
Portuguese troops in action on Western Front for the first time (see August 8th, 1916 and January 3rd, 1917). Portuguese officer with Captain of the British Mission in the trenches near Neuve Chapelle: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Corps.jpg?ssl=1
Germans capture French trenches near Hurtebise.
The ruins of the German Zeppelin L-48 after it was brought down by British fighters over Leiston: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...011567028023297
Champagne: French Fourth Army advance between ‘Mountains’ Cornillet and Blond, repulse attack on Mt Le Teton on June 21. At Chemin des Dames, German troops capture French positions, taking 25 French prisoners and 4 machine guns.
First US serviceman buried, at Pauillac (sailor, drowned on June 12).

Southern Front
Italian Offensive north of Asiago: Austro-Hungarian attacks on Asiago Plateau (Trentino) and Vodice repulsed.
Minor Italian advance near Jamiano (Carso).

Political, etc
Germany: Germany moves prisoners of war at least 30 kilometers from the front lines to keep them away from artillery range.
Germany announces it will allow neutral ships stuck in British ports to safely leave on July 1st.
Russia: Russian Duma announces a resolution for an immediate offensive by Russian troops against the Germans.
Provisional Government declares Zemstvo self-government for Siberia and Far East.
France: Paris Economic Conference concludes agreements as to future economic policy.
Ireland: Crowds in Dublin waiting to welcome the released prisoners taken during the Easter Rising: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...085806762532864
Italy: General Giardino War Minister and Admiral Triangi Marine Minister after Albanian policy crisis ends.
United States: Charlie Chaplin film ‘The Immigrant’ released.

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Western Front
French Army Mutinies: Suppression & executions continue; otherwise, no further developments. By now, the last of the mutinies have petered out, there isnt’ much left but the repression and trials.
British lose ground on Infantry Hill.
French advance between Mont Cornillet and Mont Blond (Champagne).
French troops attack German lines at Draibank, but are repulsed. German soldiers penetrate French lines east of the Meuse near Hill 844.
British tanks lined up at Rollencourt Tank Park: © IWM (Q 3562): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...387788433829888
A tank crew in front of their tank at Rollencourt: © IWM (Q 3292): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...389044426600448
British soldiers having fun in the sea at Etaples, France: © IWM (Q 2381): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...417984079777793

Eastern Front
German air raid on Dvinsk.

Southern Front
Trentino: Italian guns begin 20-hour shelling of Mt Ortigara-Lepozze Austrian positions.
Italian artillerymen raising a 75mm M1911 field gun into position in the Alps: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-alps.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Admiral Sims, United States Navy, hoists his flag at Queenstown as acting Commander-in-Chief Irish Command (see April 9th and May 2nd).

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Count Clam-Martinitz, Austrian Premier, resigns (see 23rd and December 21st, 1916).
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm on French War Minister’s statement that France will retake Alsace-Lorraine: “Good, but he must come and take it.”
Russia: The All-Russian Congress of Soviets reports its armies are in dire straits and newly drafted soldiers have poor morale and training.
United Kingdom: General Smuts to attend War Cabinet meetings.
United States: President Wilson sees Belgian Mission.
Switzerland: Herr Arthur Hoffmann, Swiss Foreign Minister, resigns over aiding German peace overtures to Russia incident. The anti-German Gustave Ador succeeds.

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Western Front
General Arthur Currie appointed to command Canadian troops in France.
Small British advances on Arras front.
Artillery duel between Allies & Germans increases in intensity in Flanders. France raids German lines at Braye-en-Laonnois & Laffaux Hill.

Southern Front
Trentino: Italian offensive on Asiago plateau. From 0600 hours Alpini (15 battalions) storm Mt Ortigara summit (6,906 ft) taking 1,000 PoWs (including Kaiserjaeger); some ground gained on Mt. Ortigara, but Austrians hold 6,729 ft peak and Mt Camigoletti although 9 battalions v 35; Austrians bring up 2 battalions and Conrad’s requests for more reserves finally answered.
An inspection of Austrian troops in the Alpine region, with most of the officers and soldiers wearing ‘Bernsdorfer’ steel helmets and rucksacks: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...lpine.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: French submarine Ariane is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine SM UC-22 off Bizerte, Tunisia.
Black Sea: Vice-Admiral Kolchak, C-in-C Russian Black Sea Fleet, deposed by delegate assembly of sailors’ councils and replaced by Vice-Admiral Lukin. Russian Navy pay rise backdated to May 13.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Lawrence and 500 Arabs begin march on Aqaba but then execute 100-strong northern sabotage diversion against Amman-Deraa railway before June 27.

Political, etc
Russia: Russian government announces it has been moving state documents from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow due to Central Powers advances.
France: French Deputies votes 369 to 95 in confidence of the current government’s general policies.
France orders 20,000 beds to be made to help house people from recently liberated areas.
United Kingdom: King abolishes Royal Family’s German titles, British peerages conferred by the King on Teck and Battenberg families.
United States: U.S. loans to the Allies now total $2,756,400,000 after loaning $25 million to Britain and $20 million to France today.

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Western Front
British recover ground on Infantry Hill.
Violent German attack near Vauxaillon (Chemin des Dames) gains ground.
Women workers constructing an airship at Chalais-Mendon, Camp Retranche de Paris: © IWM (Q 70314): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...147820469477377
A dog on top of a tank at a tank park in Rollancourt: © IWM (Q 3223): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...193125445423104
France: Petain orders 3,500 Renault FT-17 light tanks.
Artois: British repulse attacks on river Souchez after making gains on June 19.
Aisne: German attack near Vauxaillon takes ground mainly lost again on June 21, likewise southeast of Filain (June 22, lost June 24).

Southern Front
Italians carry height on Piccolo Lagaznoi (Carnia front).
Italian soldiers on the attack in the Jamiano sector against Austro-Hungarian troops:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...116343455277056
Italian Nieuport XI ‘Bebe’ on a airfield in the Alps. The type was often used by the Italians and built at Macchi under license: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...rt-11.jpg?ssl=1
145 Italian aircraft drop 5 1/2 t bombs on South Tyrol, only 26 Austro-Hungarian aircraft oppose.

Political, etc
Germany: Food supervisory committees (Menage-kommissions) allowed in all German warships to give ratings a say in food selection and preparation. For many months they have eaten boiled or dried turnips and a ‘nauseous’ ersatz meat and veg stew dubbed Drahtverhau (literally, ‘wire entanglement’). Last German dreadnought battleship Württemberg launched at Hamburg by Vulcan but never completed (broken up 1921).
Russia: Russian General Brusilov: “In honor bound, free Russia’s armies will not fail to do their duty.”
Russian government indicts former Tsarist officials, including Stürmer, Protopopov, and von Rennenkampf.
Italy: Baron Sonnino on Italian aims (which were chiefly the acquisition of territories part of Austria-Hungary).
United States: President Wilson calls for a recruitment week to boost enlistment, as the U.S. Army is short 70,000 men than planned.

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Western Front
Laon: French recover nearly all ground lost near Vauxaillon and make small advance near Mont Cornillet.
Champagne: German attack on the Teton (Champagne) repulsed.
A German barbed wire entanglement near Arras, France: © IWM (Q 2548): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...449803101335552
British troops watching artillery shell bursts near Bullecourt: © IWM (Q 2553): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...481417042776065
First operational Fokker Dr I triplane fighters delivered to Richthofen’s Jasta 11 at Courtrai. [Note: I am suspicious of this claim, as most other sources I have consulted say the first test operational pair weren’t delivered until the end of July or early August]
Richthofen lands with his Fokker Dr I: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...r-dri.jpg?ssl=1
Flanders: British Fourth Army (Rawlinson) begins operations on Flanders coast (until November 18); they involve 8 divisions.

Eastern Front
Russia: Kerensky reviews on June 19 newly formed Women’s ‘Death Battalion’ at Petrograd. Denikin arrives at Minsk to take over Western Front.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia, Persia: Turks by now reoccupy Kizil Ribat and Kasr-i-Shirin.

Political, etc
Russia: Mutiny breaks out in the Russian Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol (see March 16th, 1917 and May 1st, 1918).
United Kingdom: Warrant instituting "Order of the British Empire" published.
British Government place embargo on disposal of U.K. securities in neutral countries by residents in enemy countries.
Due to cuts in beer production, some London pubs limit customers to half a pint at lunch or dinner.
United States: Italian war commission, led by Prince Ferdinando of Udine, arrives in New York City: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...526812259176448
Boris Bakhmeteff, Russian Provisional Government’s ambassador to the US, receives a state dinner with Wilson at the White House.

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Western Front
Reception for US Supreme Commander Pershing in France: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...rance.jpg?ssl=1 Petain tells Pershing French morale is very low.
British troops walking past the damaged Albert Cathedral in the Somme: © IWM (Q 2474):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...813576517394432

Heavy German attack on Chemin des Dames front; French lose ground south-east of Filain.

Southern Front
Salonika: British 7th Mounted Brigade (c.2,100 men) begins to embark for Egypt (8th Mounted Brigade embarked from May 31).

Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: U-boats unsuccessfully attack US troop transports.

Political, etc
Germany: Admiral Krosigk of Wilhelmshaven naval base orders careful watch kept on Independent Socialists (‘dangerous agitators’).
Russia: Yevgeni Bauer, Russian film director and screenwriter, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...828685549719552

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Western Front
Germany: Amerikaprogramm submitted to OHL to double fighter units by 1 March 1918 and produce new high-performance fighter.
In the past 2 weeks, U.S. doctors and nurses have taken over 6 British field hospitals in France to free up resources.
(Listed for yesterday): German troops launch an attack on a two-kilometer front against French troops on Chemin des Dames and gain a section of trenches.
French troops repulse German attacks near Filain and Vauxaillon, preventing them from extending yesterday’s gains.
A lone French soldier sitting in the ruins of Dreslincourt: © IWM (Q 78152):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...214829634330631

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: German torpedo boat escorts 4 steamers from Rotterdam (part of German coastal trade revival since April).
King George V goes to sea for 5th Battle Squadron practice firing (visits Rosyth and Invergordon on June 24).
Indian Ocean: P & O liner Mongolia (23 lives lost) sunk by mine laid by Wolf off Bombay, but vessels based there sweep during June 51 of 68 mines laid off port.
(Listed for yesterday): Baltic: Swedish torpedo cruiser HSwMS Claes Uggla runs aground and sinks: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...860018350993411

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Royal Navy Air Service (3 Shorts from carrier Empress) and Royal Flying Corps (7 aircraft) simultaneously bomb Tulkarm station and El Ramie airfield; 8 RFC aircraft (5 lost) hit Turk Mount of Olives HQ (June 26).
A seaplane nestles in Empress’s hangar: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...angar.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Dr. Ernst Ritter von Seidler appointed Austrian Premier (see 18th and June 21st, 1918), after Count Clam-Martinitz resigns (June 21) over budget impasse.
Russia: Central Rada (Council) of Ukraine declares itself autonomous from the Russian government.
All-Russian Congress of Soviets propose dissolving the Duma and the Council of the Empire.
France: Return of M. Thomas to Paris from Russia.
United Kingdom: British government admits beer rationing were too drastic and orders increases of 33% in production.
United States: Children in costume welcoming the Italian War Commission to the US at Lewisohn Stadium in New York City: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...276514680152064
Greece: Resignation of M. Zaimis, Greek Premier.

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