Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette, known in the west as
Battles of the Lys or the
German Lys Offensive: Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge or
Second Battle of Kemmelberg (Lys) (25th/26th): Mount Kemmel stormed by German forces (see 19th, and August 31st). Allied line forced back. Very strong attack on British and French from Bailleul to Hollbeke.
Anglo-Australian night attack by 2 brigades (night April 24-25) recaptures Villers-Bretonneux with 600 PoWs. German illustration showing the battle:
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Following yesterday’s tank-against-tank battle during the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, a destroyed German A7V tank:
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96 German planes fire 60,000 MG rounds and drop 700 bombs on 3 villages in low-level preparation for assault on Kemmel Hill; RAF lose 4 planes to only 1 German.
A British 13-pounder anti-aircraft gun in action at Omiecourt, France: © IWM (Q 11023):
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In the Woevre, after heavy bombardment, German attack is stopped.
British engineers setting up a roadside mine near Robecq to slow the German offensive: © IWM (Q 6557):
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British soldiers defending the canal at Robecq. The canal is crossed by German troops later today: © IWM (Q 7874):
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Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: Germans report junction with Finnish army 30 miles north of Helsingfors.
Ukraine: Germans announced to be near Sevastopol.
Southern Front
In Asiago basin British patrols force enemy detachments to retire.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: World’s first dedicated anti-sub hunter-killer submarines (British
R.1 and
R.2) launched at Chatham (class of 12 launched by October 5, 1918).
7 German Zeebrugge seaplanes shoot down 1 of 2 Felixstowe flying boats (down another on June 6).
Damage to the British cruiser HMS
Vindictive, which participated in the indecisive Zeebrugge raid:
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Eastern Atlantic: U-boat sinks sloop HMS
Cowslip off Cape Spartel (near Gibraltar).
Adriatic: Royal Navy Air Service aircraft bomb Durazzo.
Britain: First Lord Geddes memo on ‘The Future of the Russian Fleets.’
St George’s Channel: Royal Navy sloop
Jessamine depth charges and sinks
U-104.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Persia: Small British column (aided by 4 RAF aircraft) defeats pro-German Sinjabis northeast of Kasr-i-Shirin.
Armenia: Turks occupy Kars (first time since 1878), find over 212 field and fortress guns.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: German demands for use of Limburg (Lemburg, now, Lvov) railway agreed to.
United Kingdom: Mr. Winston Churchill reviews work of Ministry of Munitions; losses since March 21 more than made good; 750,000 women working, doing 90% shell production; 100,000 men released to forces since May 1917.
Women as workers in a British munitions factory:
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Harold Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere, resigns his position in the Air Ministry.
Red Cross sale £151,000.
Exports prohibited to Russia.
Australia: Mr. Hughes and Mr. Cook appointed to represent Australia at War Conference.
Belgium: A Belgian refugee family who fled Lille, Belgium due to the hardships of German occupation:
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United States: Potato eating urged instead of bread.
Netherlands: Mr. Loudon, Dutch Foreign Minister, says relations with Germany difficult.