Western Front
Second Battle of the Marne (German:
Unternehmen Friedensturm): South of Dormans French and Americans counter-attack and take villages of St. Agneau and La Chapelle.
Germans advance up Marne to Montvoison (seven miles from Epernay).
Germany: 12 D.H.9s of No 99 Squadron and 6 D.H.4s of No 55 Squadron attack Thionville (over 93 casualties); 15-wagon munition train explodes; another train hit; serious fires started, and goods station badly damaged. Handley Pages drop 5 bombs in Saarbruecken center (heavy damage). 10 F.E.2s bomb Hagendingen; bomb destroys tunnel shelter (23 casualties) and burns large stocks of fodder and coal.
Western Front, general: Germans claim 37 Allied aircraft for loss of 14.
American soldiers advancing with tanks in a counterattack against the Germans during the 2nd Battle of the Marne : © IWM (Q 69951):
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New British recruits, mostly teenagers, at a base in Étaples, France: © IWM (Q 23584):
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British soldiers inside the destroyed church of St. Vaast at Béthune, France: © IWM (Q 11081):
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Eastern Front
Ex-Tsar Nicholas II, ex-Tsaritsa and family executed at Ekaterinburg (see March 15th, 1917), capital of Red Ural, by order of Ural Regional Council. Tsarina’s sister and 5 Romanov princes executed in nearby Alapaevsk on July 17.
The room with the wall in the Siberian Ykaterinburg, in which the Tsar with family was executed in the night of July 16.-17:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
North Atlantic:
U-54 sinks sloop HMS
Anchusa off Northern Ireland.
Western Mediterranean: Destroyer night collision between HMS
Cygnet and Italian
Garibaldino sinks the latter off Villefranche (South France).
Political, etc
France: Trial of M. Louis-Jean Malvy, former French Minister of Interior, on charge of treason.