Western Front
France: General Anthoine in command of French First Army in Flanders delivers signal from Petain to Haig: ‘The [BEF] offensive in Flanders must be an unqualified success particularly because of the present state of [French] morale.’
Germany: Ludendorff only now learns of French mutinies when worst is over.
Canadian troops advance on a 4-mile front south of Lens, while German forces make further advances against French lines at Cerny and Verdun.
French soldiers in a cemetery at the ruined village of Mercatel: © IWM (Q 92697):
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A ruined church and calvary hill scene at Ablainzeville: © IWM (Q 78076):
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Eastern Front
Galicia: Heavy artillery action, German reply includes gas. Commander Locker-Lampson sees Kerensky in Southwest Front HQ train ‘
Prodigious effort speaking … and making up by personality for … discipline had worn him out’
A German howitzer bombards the Russians:
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Southern Front
Trentino: Italian Sixth Army losses (since June 10) 23,736 (including 12,735 Alpini); Austrian 8828 soldiers. ‘Ortigara Tragedy’ demoralizes Italian line troops.
Salonika: British 60th Division sails for Egypt. French have to force some of 2,500 Russians after leave at Athens to reembark for Salonika.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Allied and neutral shipping losses 286 ships at 674,458t (U-boat official history figure 696,725t including 164,299t in Mediterranean); 2 U-boats lost, 8 commissioned (record 61 U-boats at sea during June).
Shipping forecasts for Controller Sir J Maclay indicate not enough British shipping for import of necessities by December 1 if 300,000t per month lost, but neutral shipping entrances only 20% down on normal thanks to US war entry and much diplomacy. British merchant fleet has lost 2 1/4 million tons not 3 1/2 million tons German Admiral Holtzendorff hoped.
North Sea: During June Royal Navy lay 1,120 mines in southern half.
USA: Shipping Board recruits 41,977 officers and sailors (until June 30, 1920).
A hospital ship docking in Halifax, Canada with wounded soldiers disembarking:
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East Africa: German forces driven from Nyassaland to the Rovuma border by British and Portuguese.
Political, etc
Russia: Members of the Russian Duma rejects the All-Russian Congress of Soviets’ call for its dissolution.
Soviet delegates leave Russia for Socialist conferences in Stockholm, England, France and Italy.
Greece: New Government severs relations with all Central Powers.
Spain: Neutral Spain re-iterates the ban on all submarines of belligerent powers from entering Spanish waters.