Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood: No Significant developments, but the battle continues.
German “attack” on Bligny (Reims) “repulsed.”
Somme: British Third Army night raid on trenches at Bucquoy including first night action by British tanks (night June 22-23), 5 support c.150 infatrymen of 62nd Division.
British pilots of the No. 85 Squadron posing with their dogs and goats at St. Omer: © IWM (Q 12049):
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Eastern Front
22-23 June: A North Russian Expeditionary Force comprising British Army units and supported by a Royal Air Force flight equipped with de Havilland D.H. 4 day bombers lands at Murmansk to join a Royal Marine detachment and French and United States marine units already present in the port.
South Russia: Denikin’s White Volunteer Army (9,000 men; 21 guns; 3 armored cars) begins Second Kuban campaign, captures Torgovaya and Shabilevskaya rail stations, isolating Red Kuban Group and cutting Tsaritsyn railway (June 25). Russian Eastern Railway manager
Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave: Piave still in flood; Austro-Hungarian retreat across Piave begins.
Screens cover an Italian footbridge at the Piave River to hide soldiers crossing from Austro-Hungarian fire: © IWM (Q 19079):
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Italian troops manning their trenches near Candelu: © IWM (Q 65347):
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Turkish “attack” at El Haza (northern Hejaz) “repulsed.”
Siberia: Appeal of General Horvath (Russian Eastern Railway manager, from HQ Harbin, Manchuria) to Allies for help against German invasion.
Generral Horvat (center) later in Harbin with officers from Japan, Romania, Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, France and Russia:
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Political, etc
United Kingdom: Workers cheering as King George V and Queen Mary visit a boot repair factory: © IWM (Q 27964):
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An article reporting on the spread of the Spanish Flu in Britain, the U.S., Germany, and Spain, stating it is rarely fatal but can cause “considerable inconvenience”:
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Ireland: Britain postpones plans to implement conscription in Ireland due to popular opposition. The arrival of US soldiers also alleviates manpower shortages on the front.
Turkey: Turkish war aims published.
United States: Near Hammond, Indiana, a train collides into a circus train, killing 86 people, most of them circus performers:
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