Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood: No Significant developments, but the battle continues.
William Bishop (Commander 85 Squadron SE5As) scores his last 5 victories east of Ploegsteert, having already scored 3 on June 17.
British cavalry officers resting with a wine bottle while a runner delivers a message: © IWM (Q 6714):
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Members of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps in trenches for shelter during an aerial attack at Rouen: © IWM (Q 3289):
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French Renault FT-17 tank being transported at Epernay: © IWM (Q 58239):
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Eastern Front
Russia: Petrograd workers mobilized by Reds.
Baltic States: Germans remove Polish administrator Michalkiewicz from Vilna.
Volga: Czechs capture strategic Syzran rail crossing. White demos in Kozlov and Tambov, far southeast of Moscow.
Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave: Italian Eighth Army counterstroke at 1530 hours on Montello with 10 divisions against 3 Austrian divisions and extra artillery divisions regains Nervesa only to lose it again on June 20; overall, allowing the Allies to regain the initiative. Furious fighting from Montello to sea; Austrian lines on Montello thrown back; On Asiago Plateau French capture Mts. Bertigo and Pennar; Italians capture Mt. Costalunga. General Vaccari leads his XXII Corps in person. Boroevic sees Emperor Charles at Spilimbergo on the Tagliamento, Arz can offer no reinforcements, munitions or supplies.
Austrian-Hungarian troops fought strafing British planes in June 1918 on the Piave:
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Italian troops in action near Candelu: © IWM (Q 65250):
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Aerial photograph showing destroyed bridges and trenches alongside the Piave River, as Austro-Hungarian forces clash with Italian soldiers:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Reported overthrow of Bolshevist Government in western Siberia. Anti-Bolshevist Government set up at Nizhni-Udinsk (330 miles north-west of Lake Baikal).
Tomsk taken by Anti-Bolsheviks.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Harwich Force north of Heligoland Bight foiled from launching seaplane attack (following 3 other abortive attempts in May). British squadron in north of Heligoland Bight attacked by German seaplanes. One German seaplane claimed destroyed.
The Russian battleship
Svobodnaya Rossiya, scuttled yesterday:
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Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Nearly 100,000 workers go on strike in the Austro-Hungarian capital of Vienna to demand more food and the end to war.
United Kingdom: Report of British Sub-Committee of Re-construction Committee re: increase of home-grown food.
Bulgaria: M. Aleksandar Malinov becomes Foreign Minister.
United States: Letter sent by Lieutenant Harry S. Truman, currently serving in France, to (his future wife) Bess Wallace:
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Finland: Decision re: Finnish Monarchy postponed till 1920.
Switzerland: Swiss Government adopts project of subvention of port at Basle.