Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood: Minor American success near Belleau Wood. US 2nd Division and US 4th Marine Brigade (5,200 casualties) capture objective 5 miles west of Chateau-Thierry.
An American priest at the funeral of twelve killed US soldiers:
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British air attacks on Saarbrücken, Offenburg (13 miles south-east of Strasbourg) and Karlsrühe. 1 D.H.9 lost, forced landing. 1 aircraft hit by flak and lost; 2 fighters claimed shot down; 5 Handley Pages damage permanent way at Metz-Sablon.
Rene Fonck destroys 3 German aircraft out of 7 lost today.
American soldiers defending a position with a French 37 mm gun near Diefmatten: © IWM (Q 108328):
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Southern Front
Austro-Hungarian prisoner (center) captured by Italian soldiers near Nervesa: © IWM (Q 65359):
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Political, etc
Germany: German Foreign Secretary Richard von Kühlmann makes a speech admitting the war cannot be won with force alone and Germany must resort to diplomacy. The speech angers the German military and other militarists.
Russia: Russian General Sergey Markov, a commander of the counterrevolutionary White forces, dies of his wounds suffered during a battle against the Bolsheviks:
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Ukraine: M. Markiewicz (Socialist) forms cabinet in Ukraine, vice M. Lyshub resigned.
Germany establishes the Crimean Regional Government to administer the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
United Kingdom: Speech of Chief Secretary for Ireland in House of Commons.
General Smith-Dorrien Gouverneur of Gibraltar.
United States: First of 45 Japan-built ships arrives. Now 5,810 US Army dentists; there were only 58 at outset.