Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Quiet on front, artillery active locally. Germans fire 10,000 rounds (15t) mustard gas at US 1st Div opposite Cantigny, 693 gassed (4 deaths).
Major-General James W McAndrew now AEF CoS.
British claim 36 enemy planes. DH4s of No 55 Squadron seriously damage goods statin rail tracks and rolling stock at Thionville. Actual German losses were 22 for 33 Allied.
Flight of DH4s:
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A French Chasseur plane shot down by German fighters near St. Maurice: © IWM (Q 60799):
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British soldiers next to the 16th-century Church of St. Vaast, destroyed by German artillery:
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Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: Germans and Finns surround and defeat Red Guard forces in south-west Finland. Whites occupy Kouvola. White ministers meet Mannerheim at Haapamaeki.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Attacked by superior forces, British withdraw from Es Salt and retire to west of Jordan.
Political, etc
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George returns with cheering message from Paris.
Turkey: Samsam es Sultaneh succeeds Mustaufi ul Mamalek as Persian Prime Minister (see 31st, and January 19th).