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Old 06-05-2018, 04:23 AM
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5 June 1918

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht
: Near Vingre (north-west of Soissons) German attempt to cross Aisne checked.
German attacks at Longpont (north of Forest of Retz) and at Chezy (south of Ourcq) defeated by French.
Germans claim 31 Allied aircraft for loss of 7, air fighting diminishes until June 9.
British independent Air Force in France constituted under tactical command of Major-General Sir Hugh M. Trenchard. It begins operations from Nancy. Organized as 8th Brigade RAF, initially with 4 squadrons (grew to 9); Nos 216 (Handley Pages), 55 (DH4), 99 (arrived May 3) and 100 (F.E.2). Only the Handley Pages and DH4s have strategic range and high performance, but 74 attacks made in June.
A Handley Page bomber is landing. More than 400 were delivered until the end of the war: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...nding.jpg?ssl=1
Sir W. R. Robertson appointed to command of British home forces.
Scottish Highlanders at a shrine damaged by German shellfire at Sailly-Labourse: © IWM (Q 11042): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...619902140375040
Surgery for a wounded Australian soldier near the frontlines: © IWM (E(AUS) 2375): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...665211952451585
A factory on fire after it was hit by German incendiary shells at Sailly-Labourse, France: © IWM (Q 11063): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...680302491893760

Naval and Overseas Operations
British armed boarding-steamer HMS Snaefell torpedoed and sunk, allegedly by Russian submarine; in reality, the attacker was SM UB-105.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Speech of Count Tisza in Hungarian Diet re: Dual Alliance extension.
United Kingdom: Madsen (US) machine-gun debate in House of Commons.
United States: Second Registration adds 750,000 21-year-olds to draft list.
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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht
: A claim that today, as opposed to several days ago: Battle of the Aisne, 1918, ends (see May 27th). Germans capture village and height of Bligny (south-west of Reims); height re-taken by British; counter-attacks by Allies, especially in region nearest to Paris. Map of the battle area: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...377695688503296
Battle of Belleau Wood: US 2nd Division and 4th US Marine Brigade counter-attack west of Chateau-Thierry and capture Vaux, Bouresches and Belleau Wood (1,087 killed; 7,000 wounded). Crown Prince orders consolidation of line won. British recapture Fligny village height southwest of Reims until May 7. Clemenceau sacks Franchet d’Esperey from Northern Army Group, but sends him to Salonika on June 11. Allied Supreme War Council settles Haig-Foch tussle over reserves. Franco-US forces recapture Veuilly-La Poterie and Vinly.
US soldiers in battle, summer 1918: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...fecht.jpg?ssl=1
Gotha raid on Paris.
The first operational sorties are mounted by the Independent Force of the Royal Air Force. Ten de Havilland DH4s attacked Koblenz and five de Havilland DH9s attack Thionville.
RAF 9th Brigade (200 aircraft, squadron sent 3) reinforces 1,000 French aircraft in fierce air fighting over Roye, Montdidier and Noyon.
French Schneider tanks lined up before being loaded onto railway trucks at Conty: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...967192373874688
American soldier manning the trenches in Alsace: © IWM (Q 58200): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...997398207795200
A French refugee family at the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...361042137436162
British Army Service Corps preparing films for the soldiers’ entertainment: © IWM (Q 8885): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...936993334751232

Eastern Front
Josef Stalin arrives in Tsaritsyn by train with 2 armored cars and 400 Red Guards.

Southern Front
General Adolphe Guillaumat, Allied Commander-in-Chief, Salonika, recalled to Paris (see 15th and 18th and December 22nd, 1917).

Naval and Overseas Operations
Dutch hospital ship Koningen Regentes sunk by torpedo from SM UB-107: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...300637012660224

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia
: Capture of Gurks (93 miles north-east of Borsia on Kharbin-Karimskaya Railway) by Semyonov.

Political, etc
Among Allied Powers: Britain, France, and Italy announce that they are committed in creating an independent Poland that has free access to the seas after the war.
Russia: Vladimir Lenin accepts German ultimatum for Black Sea Fleet’s return to Sevastopol.
United States: Belgian soldiers on parade in New York City: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...027606071533569
American soldiers training to use Ayrton or trench fans to clear poison gas from trenches at Camp Kearny, California: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...330837586923522
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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Battle of Belleau Wood
: American and French troops continue their counterattack at Belleau Wood, capturing Torcy and taking 300 German prisoners. French and Americans also capture Veuilly-la-Poterie and Vinly (west of Chateau-Thierry), Bouresches and Hill 204 (west of Chateau-Thierry).
British regain Bligny.
American soldiers manning a machine gun position at a railway work shop at Chateau-Thierry: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...666797856120833
Germany: 13 DHs attack rail targets at Conz and Thionville; No 55 Squadron unable to reach primary target (Koblenz clouded over), as on June 8 and 13.

Eastern Front
British force lands at Kern (North Russia) (see May 24th).
Lenin orders Murmansk Soviet to oppose Allies.
By now Germans have occupied Bataisk south of Rostov.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean
: Most of first 36 US submarine chasers arrive with tender Leonidas at Corfu, having crossed Atlantic under own power. First hunt until June 9 of 37 hunts; Commander believes 19 kills achieved, actually none.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia
: Omsk occupied by Czecho-Slovak forces (see November 18th).
Armored train of the Czech Legion in Siberia: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...egion.jpg?ssl=1

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Russia
: First Congress of Red Military Commissars.
Greece: Installation of Signor Avezzano as Italian Minister at Athens: friendly speech.
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I know you've been busy, but I gotta admit I've missed my daily dose of WWI information. This is such a terrific series of posts on a conflict that hasn't received as much attention as it probably deserves. Looking forward to seeing you renew the series when you can, GG. Mainly, just take care and hope to see you soon.
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8 June 1918

Western Front
A member of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corp in her tent at Crecy Forest with her pet dog: © IWM (Q 11067): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...696997843095555
Germany: Ludendorff receives Air Service expansion plan for July 1, 1918 (Until April 1 1919, he approves 300 more planes per month (to 2,300) but actual production average 1,088.
No 104 Squadron (arrived May 20) joins RAF strategic bombing campaign with 10-plane attack on Metz-Sablon railways; fighter interceptions (1 shot down) and heavy, accurate anti-aircraft fire over objective. 23 DH sorties flown vs Hagendingen (June 8, 9 and 13); cement works badly damaged.
British troops led by a band march past Major-General Arthur Solly-Flood near Famechon, France: © IWM (Q 8903): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...727203496714240
Australian soldiers prepare to start a 440-yard race at a sports meet in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...029187491680257
A French Renault FT-17 tank near May-en-Multien: © IWM (Q 49092): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...059390024683520
A Royal Engineers diver in a diving suit to repair the foundations of a bridge at Watten, France: © IWM (Q 8898): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...089595552301056

Eastern Front
German Expeditionary force to the Caucasus lands at Poti (Georgia).
Russian Bolshevik Government order Entente forces in North Russia to leave the country: 3,000 troops ordered north from Petrograd while Moscow and Nolga workers and peasants called up on June 14.
Volga: Czechs take Samara, White KOMUCH (‘Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly’) Government established.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain
: US Ambassador’s wife launches 26,000t carrier HMS Eagle (ex-Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane redesigned by end 1917 as first ‘island type’ carrier) at Newcastle.
Aircraft carrier ‘HMS Eagle’ was converted from a World War One battleship hull and consequently retained such features of the period: massive weight and slow speed: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Eagle.jpg?ssl=1
North Sea: Areas A and C of Northern Barrage begun.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: British advance north of Jaffa; 7th Indian Division (267 casualties) storms two low hills 1 mile from sea, taking 110 PoWs and 7 Mgs.
Ottoman prisoners captured by the Black Watch and Indian troops: © IWM (Q 12488): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...998985843728385
Arabia: Arab raid on Hejaz railway near Toweira (105 miles north-west of Medina).

Political, etc
Georgia
: Georgian Government sign peace treaty with Germany.
United Kingdom: Arrival in London of Sir R. Borden and Mr. W. Massey (Canadian and New Zealand Premiers).
Turkey: Government recognizes independent Armenia and Georgia by ratifying peace treaties; Armenia to let Turkish troops through. Ludendorff refuses to recognize treaties on June 10 and 11.
United States: A solar eclipse observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
The total solar eclipse occurs across the Pacific, starting in southern Japan and traveling across most of the U.S.: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...209126832517121
Report shows record production at American shipyards, which produced 71 ships in May. Total tonnage of ships produced surpassed British production by 200,000 tons.
Netherlands: Prisoners of War Conference at the Hague opens.
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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Battle of the Matz
, also known as the First Battle of Lassigny, or the German Operation Gneisenau begins (see 14th). A midnight barrage is pre-empted by the French by 10-minutes thanks to deserter intelligence. Germans fire 750,000 rounds (15,000t) mustard gas, phosgene and diphenylchlorarsine: 3,918 gassed (32 deaths) until June 15. Hutier attacks with 11 divisions from 0300 hours, advances 6 miles, takes 8,000 PoWs, mauls 3 divisions and continues at night. Germans enter Thiescourt Wood (south-west of Noyon) and Ressons-sur-Matz; are checked on line Mortemer-Cuvilly.
A German 21-cm (8in) howitzer is readied for action during Operation Gneisenau: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ereit.jpg?ssl=1
RAF 9th Brigade with c.200 aircraft and French 1st Air Division with 600 aircraft (forerunner of 1939-45 tactical air forces) intervene in Noyon-Montdidier ground battle. Germans claim 38 Allied aircraft for loss of 5.
France: Clemenceau sacks Generals Duchene, (Degoutte replaces him in command of Sixth Army on June 10), Maud’huy and
Chretien (corps commanders) for Aisne failure.
Battle of Belleau Wood: On 9 June, an enormous American and French barrage devastated Belleau Wood, turning the formerly attractive hunting preserve into a jungle of shattered trees. The Germans counter-fired into Lucy and Bouresches and reorganized their defenses inside Belleau Wood.
British soldiers fishing in the canals of Watten, France: © IWM (Q 8896): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...453239788109824
Wounded horses of the British Army being led on barges for treatment at a veterinary hospital. Saint-Omer, France: © IWM (Q 8908): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...483439389372419

Southern Front
Albania
: French Annamites (Vietnamese) and Albanian Tirailleurs take Austrian-held Mt Kamia (7,054 ft) and 2 villages (night June 8-9) southwest of Lake Ochrid in 5-6-mile advance on 20-mile front (June 8-14), taking 400 PoWs and 10 guns for 50 casualties.
Salonika: General Guillaumat (recalled on June 6 by Clemenceau without consulting Allies) leaves in haste and secrecy for Paris.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean
: Commander Rizzo in the Italian coastal torpedo boat MAS-15 torpedoes Austrian battleship Szent Istvan off Premuda Island, Dalmatia. https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...728797071757312 The battleship sinks the next day, with the loss of 89 crew. It is the only battleship filmed sinking in WWI: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe... .ogv.480p.webm

Political, etc
Russia
: Anna Dostoevskaya, Russian writer and 2nd wife to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...392832465637378
United States: Speech of President Woodrow Wilson to Mexican Mission.
Two passenger trains collide near Nashville, Tennessee, resulting in 101 deaths and 171 injuries. It is the worst rail accident in U.S. history: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...423033719324672
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10 June 1918

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Battle of the Matz
, also known as the First Battle of Lassigny, or the German Operation Gneisenau: German advance on Compiegne. Humbert withdraws 38th and 15th divisions 6 miles south to north of Laigue Forest (northeast of Compiegne). Foch urges Fayolle to launch Mangin’s counter-stroke without delay. On east French withdraw from Carlepont Wood on Ribecourt. In center Germans take heights of Marqueglise and reach Antheuil. French retreat on River Aronde, recapture Mery. Courcelles (south-east of Montdidier) taken by Germans, retaken by French.
Battle of Belleau Wood: In the morning of 10 June, Major Hughes' 1st Battalion, 6th Marines—together with elements of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion—attacked north into the wood. Although this attack initially seemed to be succeeding, it was also stopped by machine gun fire. The commander of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion—Major Cole—was mortally wounded. Captain Harlan Major—senior captain present with the battalion—took command. The Germans used great quantities of mustard gas. Next, Wise's 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines was ordered to attack the woods from the west, while Hughes continued his advance from the south.
Australians advance south of Morlancourt (between Ancre and Somme).
Bombardment of Paris by long-range gun continues.
Occupied Belgium: RAF No 214 Squadron Handley Pages bomb Thourout rail junction, Bruges docks and steelworks, Zeebrugge lock and canal (night June 10-11).
Britain: 469 anti-aircraft guns ready for action with 622 searchlights manned by 6,136 gunners out of 13,405 personnel in home air defense.
Belgian cemetery near the frontlines. Most crosses don’t have names due to the inability to identify the remains and only state “died for his country”: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...758999701094401
A French soldier near a damaged church in Rue de l’Eglise: © IWM (Q 61322): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...819403009777670

Southern Front
French carry Mt. Kamia (south-west of Lake Ochrida) and villages of Streksaj and Proptisti.
Italian SAML recon/light bomber planes of the Italian Air Force at Totriana: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...789200501870592
An Italian family look on at their home destroyed by German or Austro-Hungarian bombing: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...849601365200898

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea
: Harwich Force begins nightly sweeps into Heligoland Bight despite British (i.e., their own) mine risk.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: Successful British raid on Turks north of Kefr Malik (between Shechem Road and Jordan Valley).
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins. The “Ramadan Cannon” being fired in British-occupied Jerusalem to mark when to break the fast: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...879806444138496
Armenia: Turkish 9th Caucasian Division clashes with German-Georgian force at Vorontsovka, south of Tiflis and drives it back
Siberia: Retreat of Colonel Semyonov in Siberia.

Political, etc
United Kingdom
: Officially stated that between 15 May and 1 June Germans had bombed hospitals on seven occasions, with resulting loss of 248 killed and 693 wounded.
Denmark: International Seamen's Congress at Copenhagen forms International Federation; Mr. Havelock Wilson, President, Mr. Damm (Dane), Secretary.
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11 June 1918

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Battle of the Matz
, also known as the First Battle of Lassigny, or the German Operation Gneisenau: Check to German advance. Successful French counter-attack from Rubescourt to St. Maur; recapture of Belloy. Germans driven out of Antheuil.
Battle of Belleau Wood: Americans capture Belleau Wood (west of Chateau-Thierry). Mangin’s 4 divisions and US 2nd and 3rd Division launch flank counter-attack at 1130 hours without prelim shelling but with 163 tanks (73 lost) and air support, retakes 3 villages, 1,000 PoWs and 19 guns before resistance stiffens.
Allied close air support for Mangin’s counter-stroke leads to heavy air battles; RAF bombing in error causes 8 French wounded and 75 horses killed. Germans claim 40 Allied aircraft for loss of 19 until June 12.
Map showing recent German advances in gray and areas lost to the French counterattack enclosed by dotted lines: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...091205908815872
Somme: Australian 2nd Divison ‘peaceful penetration’ secures 300 PoWs. Monash submits plan for Hamel’s recapture on June 21.
Wounded American soldiers resting at a hospital in Auteuil, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...121407586193409
Indian Army artillerymen playing cards near Pas, France: © IWM (Q 8910): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...152844372791297
A wounded French veteran with a prosthetic arm working in the fields: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...183039582556165
A ruined city block in Amiens near the cathedral: © IWM (Q 11528): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...213243659083776

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: British air raid on Amman.
Siberia: Czecho-Slovaks in control of Siberian Railway between Cheliabinsk and Nizhni-Udinsk (west of Irkutsk); Bolsheviks retreat to Slatust.
Czechs threaten Samara (on Volga).

Political, etc
Germany
: Soviet delegates arrive in Berlin.
Turkey: OHL telegram threatens to withdraw all German troops and officials from Turkey if Turkish advance in Georgia not halted. Enver threatens to resign, but Seeckt patches up quarrel in July.
Military and political press censorship abolished to promote Pan-Turanianism and aid attacks on Allies.
Finland: Bill for new Constitution of Finland presented to Finland Diet.
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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Battle of the Matz
, also known as the First Battle of Lassigny, or the German Operation Gneisenau: German Seventh Army attacks with 5 divisions west of Soissons (until June 13) but gains minimal against French troops with 197 tanks. Fighting near Compiegne continues, with Germans troops forcing the Allies to withdraw 5 miles from the Oise river. Small gains are made by the French near Belloy and St. Maur. French advance near Belloy and St. Maur; Germans cross Matz, enter Meliocq (south of Lassigny).
A badly-wounded Frrench casualty is evacuated from a front-line trench at the Aisne: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...deter.jpg?ssl=1
Noyoni-Montdidier: German advance on Cutry plateau (Villers-Cotterets). Mangin again attacks, gains up to 3,200 yards at heavy cost, but Germans blunted and Clemanceall’s critics silenced.
Battle of Belleau Wood: Americans capture Nancy.
700,000 U.S. soldiers reported in France.
First US day bombing mission: Breguet 14s of 96th Aero Squadron bomb Dommary-Baroncourt rail yards.
Members of the Chinese Labour Corp near Fontes, France celebrating a festival: © IWM (Q 8920): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...486286671253504
Wounded French soldiers at the American Military Hospital at Neuilly who just arrived and are waiting to be put on beds: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...516491339157504
French Saint-Chamond tanks going to the frontlines near Moyenneville: © IWM (Q 56451): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...546697059749888
Soldiers of the 24th Motor Machine Gun Battalion with their Clyno motorbikes equipped with Vickers machine guns: © IWM (Q 10326): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...561799133679616
American soldier wearing steel body armor at Boucq, France: © IWM (Q 80359): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...576898196033537

Southern Front
Macedonia
: 4 RAF aircraft claim to shoot down at least 3 of 8 hostile aircraft encountered, 2 more collide.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique
: Allies enter Malema (Portuguese East Africa).
Germans retreat to River Ligonya.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Kurdamir (East Caucasus) and Ujari (northern Persia) occupied by Turkish forces.
Georgia: Tiflis occupied by a German force (see 8th, and December 27th).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Persia
: Anglo-Russian force (1,200 Cossacks; 4 guns; c.100 Hussars; 2 Duncars and 2 RAF planes) disperses 3,000-4,000 German-advised Jangali tribesmen at Manjil Bridge, northwest of Kazvin; Colonel Bicherakov soon reaches Enzeli on Caspian Sea.

Political, etc
Ukraine
: Armistice concluded at Kiev between the whole State of The Ukraine and Russian Bolshevik Republic (see May 4th).
France: Czecho-Slovak movement recognised also by France.
United Kingdom: Warm speech of Mr Balfour re: Japan.
Italy: Czecho-Slovak movement recognised also by Italy.
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13 June 1918

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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...897748489265152
City of Arras devasted by artillery: © IWM (Q 6731): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...927959834398720
Chinese Labour Corps workers help prepare a barricade near Arras: © IWM (Q 7898): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...958144080228353

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’: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...hirba.jpg?ssl=1

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: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...832313601347584
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14 June 1918

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht
: The German offensive on the Western Front ends. No large-scale engagements are reported in the Western Front, as Germany prepares for its fifth phase of its offensive. Map showing German gains this year: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...184637460918272
British successful midnight attack north of Bethune along La Bassee Canal.
First extensive use of mustard gas by Allies (French) causes 265 casualties. Foch instructs Petain to plan offensive west of Soissons, Mangin makes 8 successful local attacks (until July 5). OHL reaffirms its cherished ‘final’ offensive in Flanders (codename Hagen). But first Allied reserves must be drawn south by Operation Reims ( Marneschutz, ordered on June 18). Bruchmueller’s ‘siege train’ to redeploy quickly from Reims to Flanders (Rupprecht to attack 15 days later). French Intelligence predicts ‘a continuation of the thrust towards Amiens.. (or) a continuation of the attacks in the direction of Paris by … the Oise and Marne … not before July 15’.
French PoWs are escorted away from the fighting along the Aisne River: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Aisne.jpg?ssl=1
Battle of Belleau Wood: No significant developments, but the battle continues.
General Guillaumont appointed Military Governor of Paris.
Wounded American soldier at a hospital in Neuilly, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...214835912802305
Wounded horses being led onto an ambulance at St. Omer: © IWM (Q 9005): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...245043516825600
Royal Highlanders resting against a damaged wall at Arras: © IWM (Q 6700): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...276762273894400
British artillerymen using scythes to cut grass for their horses. Near Arras, France: © IWM (Q 6702): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...306893432418304

Southern Front
As part of the Don-Kuban Cossack agreement (see below), 10,000 Russians to fight Germans at Taganrog.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: Turkish forces repulse British on Hejaz line (Maan region, south of Dead Sea).
Persia: Tabriz again occupied by Turkish forces (see January 30th, 1915).

Political, etc
Russia
: Soviets expel Right Socialist parties.
Protocol of agreement between Don and Kuban Cossack Governments.
Canada: Canada cuts imports of food from the U.S. in order to restore its trade imbalance.
Finland: Inadequate majority in Finnish Diet for bill to establish monarchy.
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Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood
: No significant developments, but the battle continues.
German air-raid on Paris.
French regain Coeuvres (Villers-Cotterets).
Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard is appointed General Officer Commanding the Independent Force of the Royal Air Force.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince Wilhelm, and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg at the German GHQ at Spa, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Kaiser’s accession to the throne: © IWM (Q 23739): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...598615735537664
British soldiers going on leave onboard a dazzle-camouflaged transport leaving Boulogne for England: © IWM (Q 10329): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...628819598135296

Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave
begins: Great Austro-Hungarian offensive from Lagarina Valley to sea.
Asiago sector: Austro-Hungarians (codename Radetsky) pre-empted on by Italian barrage for 4 hours before Austrian guns open at 0300 hours (shell shortage and no phosgene gas given by Germans). Infantry attack at 0700 hours. Austrian Eleventh Army penetrates British (3 frontline battalions surprised) and French lines but stopped by early afternoon, repulsed by counter-attack leaving 1,500 PoWs and 7 guns.
In Mt Grappa sector Austrian XXVI Corps captures 5 features and I Corps takes part of Mt Solaroli salient, maximum penetration 3300 yards, but Italian Fourth Army counter-attacks make progress. An agitated Emperor Charles (in imperial train at Merano) rings Field Marshal Boroevic at noon ‘The Army of Tyrol is defeated, the troops have lost all that they had gained and have been driven back to the line of departure’; Piave sector: (Codename Albrecht), Austro-Hungarian Isonzo Army crosses Lower Piave under smokeshell and fog cover on a 20-mile front gaining 3 small bridgeheads and laying one bridge; Sixth Army crosses onto Montello Ridge, securing bridgehead, takes 4,000 PoWs and up to 2 miles but unable to link with Isonzo Army and its bridges and boats hit by RAF planes. More troops cross during night. Austro-Hungarians cross the middle Piave in Nervesa and Fagare-Musile regions.
Top Italian ace Francesco Baracca scores his last 2 victories (last a two-seater among 25 escorts). 653 Allied aircraft (including 33 Sopwith Camels who break one pontoon bridge) attack and help remove Austrian Piave bridgeheads (until June 22).
Italian troops defending the Piave River: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...553318376353792

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia
: Hejaz Railway: RAF bomb El Kutrani station, 30 miles east of Dead Sea South end.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Large riots break out in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and other Austro-Hungarian cities due to food shortages and growing antiwar sentiments.
France: Clemenceau forms Committee for Defense of Paris at Bombon (Foch attends); location of Allied GHQ since June 5.
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Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood
: No significant developments, but the battle continues.
British soldiers racing each other at a sport tournament at St. Andre, France: © IWM (Q 6704): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...659019274768384
An old church converted into a field hospital for American soldiers in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...932058793103360

Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave
: Violent fighting on Piave. Austro-Hungarians capture ground south-east of Montello and Capo Sile (north-east of Venice). British capture Austro-Hungarian advance in the hills. British 48th Division (922 casualties) after 4 counter-attacks has taken 728 PoWs and buried 576 Austrian soldiers. In Mt Grappa sector Italian Fourth Army restores its line except for 2 peaks, releasing 200 Italian PoWs and c.12 guns. Austrian Army Group Conrad losses 35,026 soldiers. Italian Eighth and Third Army counter-attacks recover some ground including 4 villages south of the Piave. Heavy rain, Italian and RAF attacks and lack of bridging equipment (due to shortage of horses) hinder river crossings.
Italian infantry in the Piave line, which is virtually flat flood plain where the shallow trenches often became waterlogged: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...front.jpg?ssl=1
At the Battle of the Piave River, Austria-Hungary claims the capture of 16,000 prisoners, while the Allies claim taking 3000 Austro-Hungarians prisoners.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan
: Armenians capture Karamarian (120 miles west of Baku) but fail to advance farther south.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia
: British air raid on El Kutrani on Hejaz railway (30 miles east of southern end of Dead Sea).
Persia: Action of Ahmadabad (west of Shiraz): British spoiling attack inflicts 500 casualties on 3,200 tribesmen; Shiraz crisis over by June 21.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique
: Paul von Lettow’s main body enters Alto Molocque (220 miles west of Mozambique), captures 75,000lb food and valuable maps.
Morocco: French Oued-Inouen line repulses repeated tribal attacks.

Political, etc
Bulgaria
: Bulgarian Cabinet (M. Radoslavov) resigns; M. Malinov becomes Premier: beginning of the end foreshadowed.
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Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood
: No significant developments, but the battle continues.
An old church converted into a field hospital for American soldiers in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...932058793103360
17 June-22 July
The Victoria Cross is posthumously awarded to Major Edward 'Mick' Mannock of No.85 Squadron, Royal Air Force, one of the highest scoring British fighter pilots and greatest air leaders of the First World War. "An outstanding example of fearless courage, remarkable skill, devotion to duty, and self-sacrifice, which has never been surpassed."
Airplane raid on Kent; no damage.
British soldier peeking through a street barricade in Arras: © IWM (Q 7905): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...962257819684871
British tractors pulling artillery near Steenvoorde, France: © IWM (Q 78682A): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...992459232796673
Pilots of the Australian Flying Corps with their Sopwith Camel aircraft at Clairmarais, France: © IWM (E(AUS) 2661): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...007561910595585
The result of a German Gotha bomber raid on Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...022660704587777

Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave
: Italians and French capture Razea Pizzo and heights south-east of Sasso (Asiago).
In the Grappa region Allies gain ground.
On the lower Piave Austro-Hungarian XXIII Corps expands largest bridgehead but still short of Meolo in Italian second line; XXIV Corps makes gains on Montello, but 20 bridges insufficient for supplies, heavy rain makes river rise nearly 3ft (night june 17-18) and breaks nearly all of them.
Italian Marines at their dugout during the Battle of the Piave River: © IWM (Q 19087): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...294443911442432
Salonika: General Franchet d’Esperey arrives to be Allied C-in-C (June 18) tells new subordinates ‘I expect from you savage vigor’; Paris directive drawn up (June 22).

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea
: Sopwith Camel from carrier HMS Furious forces German seaplane down for destruction after two bombing raids on the ship.
Western Mediterranean: Royal Navy convoy escorts sloop Lychnis and trawler Partridge sink Moraht’s U-64 (which had sunk 45 ships or 132,166t sunk since 1916) with gunfire between Sardinia and Sicily.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Disturbances and partial strike in Vienna, etc., re: reduced bread ration.
Troops cause over 24 casualties in Budapest MAV Machine-Factory claiming pay increase (June 20), capital’s workers walk out (until June 27).
United Kingdom: Men born 1895-97 called up excluding shipbuilders and shale oil miners. Imperial War Conference told soldier’s grave will cost £10 (Italy grants land June).
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Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood
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French repulse a local German attack on Reims front from Sillery (south of La Pompelle Fort) to Trigny (seven miles west of Reims).
Bruno von Mudra relieves Fritz von Below in command of First Army, latter takes over new Ninth Army at Soissons (until August 6).
German stormtroopers in a shell funnel: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...uppen.jpg?ssl=1
Lieutenant Frank Leaman Baylies, American flying ace who served in the French air force known for shooting down 6 planes in a 3-hour span, is killed in action: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...324646553423874
Supreme Allied Commander General Ferdinand Foch and General John Pershing conversing at Chaumont: © IWM (Q 58390): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...356147412250624
Squadron commander of the Royal Flying Corp with the squadron’s parrot mascot at Serny aerodrome: © IWM (Q 12048): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...386336208883713
A disfigured French veteran with and without his mask: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...658130664939520

Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave
: Piave in flood; Austro-Hungarian attempts to cross between S. Andrea and Candelu repulsed; Italians recapture Capo Sile. Slight Austrian Montello gains near Nervesa rail bridge. Italian 1st Division takes 500 PoWs from Lower Piave San Dona bridgehead, but its reinforced occupiers take 6,500 PoWs around Campolunga (until June 19).

Naval and Overseas Operations
Russian battleship Svobodnaya Rossiya destroyed in Black Sea to avoid surrender to the Germans (see May 4th). Destroyer Kerch torpedoes her at Novorossisk where 7 destroyers and torpedo boats scuttle themselves (Kerch scuttles at Tuapse on June 19). Battleship Volya, 3 destroyers, 2 torpedo boats and AMC return to Sevastopol as Germans request for internment, but c.464 German sailors gradually take them over.
Mozambique: Germans in retreat reach Mujebu (80 miles north of Quilimane.

Political, etc
Germany
: OHL demands military service for all men 15-60, War Minister opposes on June 24. Reichstag deputies increased and act for proportional representation.
Russia: Publication of Secret Treaty between Bolsheviks and Germans re: Poland.
United Kingdom: Vote of Credit for £500 million.
Publication of Agreement between Entente and Sweden.
Japan: Arrival of Prince Arthur of Connaught in Japan.
Netherlands: Dutch Government sends to investigate cause of loss of Koningen Regentes.
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