Western Front
French capture whole of Courcy (village east of Villers-Cotterets).
French female air mechanics looking at a British R.E.8 airplane at Le Crotoy aerodrome: © IWM (Q 12082):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...347534896369666
American soldier using a Lewis machine gun at Watou, Belgium: © IWM (Q 64336):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...377730621952000
Eastern Front
Ioakim Vatsetis named new Eastern Front Commander.
A walk-over ? The Kaiser: ‘This is the doormat of our new premises’ – Emperor Karl: ‘Are you quite sure it’s dead?’:
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Southern Front
Albania: Berat taken by Italian forces (see 6th and February 17th, 1916).
Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Armenia: Kress wires Berlin from Tiflis that Armenians threatened with extermination. Hindenburg cables Enver ‘as a Christian’ to let 500,000 starving go home (July 29).
North Caucasus: Denikin’s Volunteer Army defeats Red Army (until July 14.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Persia: RAF plane flies to Urmia, arranges ammo convoy supply (July 22) for Christian Assyrian Jelus beset by Turks.
Siberia: General Horvath (Czecho-Slovak Commander) establishes new Siberian Government at Grodekovo (north-west of Vladivostok).
British government announce 25th Middlesex Regiment sailing from Hong Kong to Vladivostok.
Political, etc
Russia: 5th Congress of Soviets adopts RSFSR Constitution.
United Kingdom: Mr. Herbert Asquith on President Wilson and League of Nations.