Western Front
Western Front, General: First Sopwith Camel aerial victory of Royal Flying Corps (with No 70 Squadron first RFC unit to receive fighter, 3 more squadrons receive it July).
Sopwith Camel chasing a Hannover:
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Flanders: German ‘Long Max’ 15-inch gun at Luegenboom fires 55 shells at Dunkirk (24-mile range).
Female ambulance drivers from the British Red Cross at Etaples, France: © IWM (Q 2438):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...646767461130242
Southern Front
Austrian attack on Agnello pass repulsed.
Naval and Overseas Operations
French cruiser
Kléber sunk by (42 lives lost) sunk off Brest by mines from
UC-61.
British transport
Armadale (3 dead) sunk in Atlantic.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Egypt: General Edmund Allenby becomes C-in-C EEF replacing Archibald Murray at Cairo.
Political, etc
Germany: Germany announces that Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron) has shot down his 56th aeroplane yesterday, extending his record.
United Kingdom: British Secretary of State for War Stanley states Britain will not target German cities in reprisal for German attacks on British cities.
United States: U.S. loans to Allied countries pass $1 billion ($20.9 billion today) after it approved new loans to Great Britain and France.
Greece: M. Venizelos assumes power at Athens. Diplomatic relations severed with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Declaration of War by Provisional Government against Germany and Bulgaria of November 23rd, 1916, becomes effective for the whole of Greece. "State of War" also begins between Greece and Austria-Hungary and between Greece and Turkey (see 26th).