Western Front
Aisne: Franco-American local counter-attack gains three villages and 1,200 PoWs on edge of Villers-Cotterets forest. French capture Cutry Plateau.
Flanders: Action of La Becque: substantial raid by 5th and 31st divisions of British First Army northwest of Bethune advances nearly 1 mile on 3 1/2-mile front’ 440 PoWs.
France: US Army Chemical Warfare Service created.
Another air-raid on Paris.
Germans claim 31 Allied aircraft for loss of 2 including record (so far) 23 victories in single army (Seventh) sector.
Attack of German Fokker Dr-I triplanes and Fokker D-VII fighters over the Western Front:
https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1918.jpg?ssl=1
American soldiers resting by a stream in France:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...259449313071104
Eastern Front
North Russia: Sir E Geddes on visit reports to Prime Minster that 5,000 troops via Archangel can reach Vologda rail junction and join Czechs.
South Russia: Major-General Malleson’s Trans-Caspia Mission leaves Simla (India) for Meshed.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Arabs capture Kalaat el Almar (200 miles north of Medina) from Turks.
Political, etc
Russia: SOVNARKOM decrees nationalization of major industry (c.2,000 firms).
United Kingdom: A woman worker at the Govan Shipbuilding Yard melting down electric cables for scrap: © IWM (Q 110080):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...289711203934208
United States: Second U.S. communique in favor of “deliverance” of all Slavs from German or Austro-Hungarian rule