Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: A German artillery shell lands just yards away from the photographer Ernest Brooks during the 3rd Battle of Ypres: © IWM (Q 2890):
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Highland Light Infantry troops resting before the attack during the 3rd Battle of Ypres: © IWM (Q 6006):
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Airplane raid on London and south-east coast, 21 killed, 70 injured. 3 of 16 Gotha bombers reach London, 1 bomb causes 39 casualties (of total 91) in Southampton Row; 30 defence sorties including first from Biggin Hill.
German Gotha bomber in flight:
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11 Navy Zeppelins dispatched: 5 wander east and north counties; only 3 civilian casualties but 5 defence fighters crash (night September 24-25).
German attack north of Bezonvaux, Fosses and Chaume Woods, Verdun (north-east), repulsed. 50 Germans are captured.
Germans bomb Royal Navy Air Service St Pol depot near Dunkirk (until October 1), destroy 140 engines.
Eastern Front
Baltic: Around this date Russian Baltic staff learn from Room 40 that German battleships coming east.
Southern Front
Salonika: General Paul Grossetti leaves with food poisoning complaint (died January 7, 1918 aged 56), General Charles Regnault temporary C-in-C French Army of the Orient.
Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: British destroy German food depots west of Kilwa; Belgian column within ten miles of Mahenge.
Mediterranean: around this date 5 old US destroyers arrive at Port Said from Philippines, go on to Gibraltar for escort work.
Political, etc
United Kingdom: Captain Marchese di Laureati flies from Turin to London, non-stop, 650 miles, 7 hours 22 minutes.
Great Britain apologizes to Denmark for Jutland violation on 1 September 1917, and offers indemnity.
United States: Herbert Hoover, head of the U.S. Food Administration, recommends that people eat less candy to preserve sugar supplies.
Satisfactory Japanese Mission (Viscount Ishii) to U.S.A.
U.S. House approves the creation of a special suffrage committee to deal with issues concerning giving women the vote.