Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: No infantry actions of importance; increased artillery activity at certain points north and south of the Avre.
A shop in Amiens, France covered by sandbags to protect it from German bombs and artillery: © IWM (Q 11011):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...329463341764608
Aisne: 2 German PoWs reveal offensive next day, Duchene’s Sixth Army mans overdense first line from 16:15 hours.
Members of the Chinese Labour Corps in France entertaining British and American troops at Samer: © IWM (Q 8855):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...359665253969920
American, British, Canadian, and Australian soldiers playing a baseball game in France:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...389865698099201
African American soldiers in the US Army performing in a jazz band at Camp Upton in New York state:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...420063806140416
Southern Front
Good progress made by Italian troops in mountain passes between Lake Garda and Swiss frontier (Monticello and Adamello region).
Naval and Overseas Operations
H.M. Transport
Leasowe Castle sunk in Mediterranean by enemy submarine, 101 lost.
North Sea: US Mine Squadron 1 (Captain Reg Belkap’s 19 minelayers with 5,530 mines) arrives at Invergordon to help lay Northern Barrage with 57,000 US-made mines in next 5 months, about 5% explode prematurely. Often 1 minelayer laid over 43 miles in 3 1/2 hours.
Grand Fleet cruises off Heligoland Bight minefields while Harwich Force goes through, but no German response. Destroyer
Shakespeare mined but towed home by cruiser
Centaur.
A mine of the type used in the Allied North Sea barrage built during 1918:
https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...perre.jpg?ssl=1
Channel: Royal Navy patrol yacht Lorna depth charges and sinks coastal submarine
UB-74 in Lyme Bay.
Mozambique: In Portuguese East Africa Germans driven south towards Upper Lurio river.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Battle of Karakilise (until May 28): Nazarbekov, outflanked north and south by Turks, escapes via mountain paths and covers Delljan from west with 5,000 survivors (until May 29).
Political, etc
Russia: Trans-Caucasian Federal Government (see September 20th, 1917 and April 22nd, 1918), dissolved.
Georgia: The Democratic Republic of Georgia declares itself independent. The National Council Meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia declaring independence:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...298004455321600
Armenia: Armenian National Council assume charge of Armenian affairs (see June 8th).
Azerbaijan: Tatar National Council proclaim establishment of a "Republic of Azerbaijan."