Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Battle of the Matz, also known as the
First Battle of Lassigny, or the German
Operation Gneisenau: Ludendorff calls off
Operation Gneisenau. Germans gain footing on edge of Forest of Villers-Cotterets; otherwise held up.
Germany: Air battle over Trier: 2 fighters shot down by DH4s (1 shot down) of No 55 Squadron; direct hit on iron foundry.
Battle of Belleau Wood: Overall, the woods were attacked by the Marines a total of six times before they could successfully expel the Germans. They fought off parts of five divisions of Germans, often reduced to using only their bayonets or fists in hand-to-hand combat.
A British gas sentry in the ruins of Liévin, France tasked with sounding the alarm during a gas attack: © IWM (Q 6699):
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City of Arras devasted by artillery: © IWM (Q 6731):
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Chinese Labour Corps workers help prepare a barricade near Arras: © IWM (Q 7898):
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Southern Front
Italian Front: Preliminary Austro-Hungarian diversionary attack by 2 divisions (‘Avalanche Action’) in Tonale Pass (Trentino, west of Lake Garda) fails by early afternoon. Austro-Hungarian attack against Cady summit and Monticello ridge (north and south of Tonale Pass, western Trentino).
Italian trench newspaper ‘La Chirba’:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Fighting at Irkutsk between Red and White Guards.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Bristol Channel: British armed merchant cruiser Patia torpedoed and sunk by German submarine.
North Sea: Cruiser
Conquest mined off Harwich but towed to Sheerness. Sister ship
Centaur mined in Heligoland Bight but steams 250 miles stern first to reach Humber (June 14-15).
Political, etc
Russia: Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, the youngest brother of former Tsar Nicholas II, is assassinated by the Bolsheviks:
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