Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Minor infantry actions.
German guns active on Villers-Bretonneux sector.
French gains in Avre valley, seize Hill 82, between Hailles and Castel.
British airmen bomb Thionville.
Zeebrugge again bombed.
Members of the British Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps playing basketball with convalescing soldiers at Etaples: © IWM (Q 8756):
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German soldier posing inside the barrel of the “Paris Gun,” the long-ranged artillery gun that bombarded Paris from behind German lines: © IWM (Q 87407):
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Royal Artillery officers rest while one plays a piano at Saint-Floris. Their dog mascot sits on top of the piano: © IWM (Q 6586):
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French gunners loading a massive 400mm howitzer at Sommesous: © IWM (Q 108347):
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Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: Red Western Army collapses, 20,000 PoWs; 50 guns and 200 Mgs.
German troops arrest suspected Bolsheviks:
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Russia: Germans occupy Taganrog in Donetz region.
Southern Front
Italy: Ferdinand Foch’s authority extended to Italian Front.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: U-boat sinks transport
Tuscania (211 of 2,400 US troops lost) 7 miles north of Rathlin island.
Channel: Dover Barrage sinks coastal submarine
UB-31, which sunk 26 Allied ships during its career.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Heavy fighting in Palestine; Turks cross Jordan at Jisr ed Damiya; attack troops holding Es Salt.
Political, etc
Germany: Prussian Landtag votes 235-183 against equal suffrage; pro-equal suffrage meetings banned on May 25.
Russia: Cossacks cable Kaiser for help against Bolsheviks.
United States: Montana bans German language teaching and textbooks, half states curtail German by summer, much book burning.
Netherlands: Agreement concluded regarding export of sand and gravel from The Netherlands for German use (see July 15th).
Spain: Real Unión wins the 1918 Copa del Ray after defeating Madrid FC by 2-0.