Western Front
British advance on two-mile front south of Souchez river. Canadians secure most of Avion; 46th Division clears Hill 65; 15th Infantry Brigade (5th Division) captures position on edge of Oppy Wood under cover of smoke, previous assaults without failed bloodily. The British are now within a mile from Lens.
Germans positions near Oppy carried.
German attack north-west of Verdun; French trenches on Hill 304 captured.
A canteen counter set up inside a hole made by a shell at Blangy-sur-Ternoise: © IWM (Q 5531):
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Eastern Front
Galicia: Preliminary Russian shelling (including Royal Navy Air Service manned trench mortars) from 0400 hours, bridge behind Brzezany blown up.
Naval and Overseas Operations
The
Doxa, a Greek destroyer seized by the French Navy, is attacked and sunk by the German submarine
UB-47, resulting in 29 deaths.
German Admiralty orders U-boats to act off France and Italy as well as severing Salonika transport route, neutral ships in British convoys to be treated as hostile (June 30).
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Czech Socialist memorandum published.
Thousands demonstrate in Budapest, demanding universal, equal, and secret voting rights.
United Kingdom: Since last year, British artillery shell production has increased 4-fold. Since March 1915, the increase is 28 times.
Lord Northcliffe, head of the British war commission, warns the U.S. against the censorship “blunder” Britain committed early in the war.
New Zealand: In recognition of New Zealand's services, "Governor" changed to "Governor-General".
Canada: Canadian Labour MP Alphonse Verville threatens a general strike if Canada institutes a draft without consent of the people.
United States: U.S. Senate passes a bill for daylight saving time, which will start next year.
U.S. Senate begins debating whether or not to ban the brewing of beer for the duration of the war to conserve wheat.
U.S. marines in Pennsylvania on a train to New York, where they will then be shipped to France:
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