Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Many raids by both sides.
Flanders: British at Nieppe Forest bombed by gas shells.
Aisne: 12 tanks from German lines unable to cross French ‘Bardooelles Trench’.
A German captured tank Mk IV is rolling to Allied lines:
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Germany: Thyssen blast furnaces and iron/steel works Hagendingen attacked by 8 DH9s of No 99 Squadron (which shoot down 1 fighter).
A nursery room at an American Red Cross hospital near Paris damaged by German bombs. There was no loss of life in this attack at the nursery:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...561907194417154
Britain: BEF Tank Corps Lieutenant-Colonel JFC Fuller writes ‘Plan 1919’ for Allied tank (4,992 requested) and all-vehicle breakthrough on broad front. Haig receives revised version July 21. Foch agrees in principle August 6. Further refinements of this plan served as the basis for the Blitzkrieg operations by the Germans in World War II.
Southern Front
Josef Kiss, the most successful flying ace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with 19 victories, is killed in action over Italy:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...637419610857472
Naval and Overseas Operations
Cruiser USS
Olympia joins Royal Navy squadron in Murmansk.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, being greeted by members of the Jewish community in Jerusalem: © IWM (Q 13211):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...592111178739713
Mesopotamia: Kirkuk evacuated by the British forces (see 7th and October 25th).
Siberia: General F.C. Poole lands at Murmansk to organise the North Russia Expeditionary Force (see June 4th, 8th and 23rd).
General Grigory Semyonov makes steady progress, organising anti-Bolshevist forces in Siberia.
Political, etc
United Kingdom: Government issues statement exposing Sinn Fein intrigues with Germany and the revolutionary movement in Ireland.
Canada: Canada passes an Act granting women the right to vote in federal elections. Asian and aboriginal women are excluded.