Western Front
Marne: 27 German PoWs (chiefly Alsatian) reveal to French Fourth Army timings of impending Champagne-Marne offensive.
Champagne and Marne: Germans gas shell US 3rd Division with 7,500 rounds (15t) mustard gas and phosgene; 600 gassed (9 deaths); US 26th Division at Chateau-Thierry endures 10,000 rounds (20t) mustard gas and phosgene (until July 17); 518 gassed (no deaths).
9 RAF squadrons fly to reinforce French in Champagne despite rainstorms, lose 15 aircraft in action (until July 17).
British soldier bargaining at a market in Saint-Omer, France: © IWM (Q 11073):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...807149282615296
Southern Front
Albania: French capture Austrian positions on River Devoli.
Italian, French, and British officers in Granezza, celebrating the victory against the Austro-Hungarians at the Piave River: © IWM (Q 26904):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...124216850374656
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Action of Abu Tulul: 5800 Turks and Germans (1,000 casualties including 475 Germans and 510 PoWs, 6 MGs lost) attack 2,500 Anzacs and Indian cavalry (c.200 lancers cause 192 Turkish cavalry casualties east of Jordan), unsupported Germans repelled for 70 ALH (Australian Light Horse mounted infantry) casualties (189 total). Ultimate outcome was the defeat of Turks at passages of Jordan and on Abu Tellul ridges, 510 prisoners.
Indian lancers and their British officers in Palestine:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: Coastal submarine
UB-105 sinks French transport
Djemnah (442 lost) off Cyrenaica. British Australia-bound SS
Barunga (ex-German SS
Sumatra) sunk by U-boat.
Political, etc
Between warring powers: Provisional agreement between British and German delegates to Hague re: Prisoners of War.
Austria-Hungary: Field Marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf resigns from active service (especially due to Hungarian protests at Piave failure), is made Count and Colonel of all the Guards; General Alexandder von Krobatin (Tenth Army) takes over his Tyrol army group.
France: France celebrates Bastille Day. French soldiers marching in Paris:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...078919428378624
Soldiers from other Allied forces also march in Paris for Bastille Day. Soldiers of the Czechoslovakian Legion in Paris:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...094020864757762
United Kingdom: National rationing for sugar (until November 29, 1920), butter (until May 30, 1920), margarine (until February 16, 1919) and lard (until December 16, 1918), national bacon and ham rationing discontinued on July 29. Local jam, cheese and tea rationing for 500,000 to 17.5 million people since early 1918.