Western Front
18 of 25 Gotha bombers (Captain Kleine) sent to attack Harwich and Felixstowe (Royal Navy Air Service Station damaged, 4 civilian casualties, 43 service casualties (17 killed, 30 injured). 5 Sopwith Camels from Dunkirk attack homeward-bound Gothas without success. 21 Gothas (1 lost to Bristol fighter off Ostend) repeat, raid on July 22 when 122 fighters ascend to no avail, 1 Gotha crashes on landing.
German attacks north of the Aisne against British forces and at Verdun against French lines are repulsed.
Eastern Front
Galicia:
“Kerensky” Or “Second Brusilov (Summer)” Offensive: Kerensky Offensive slows down and the Russian advance towards the town of Brzezany (Berezhany) is halted due to heavy casualties.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Ponta Delgada (Azores) shelled by a German submarine.
Concerted attack by German submarines on United States transports defeated. (Note: this is the third report of this, and given the way submarines were operated, a “concerted”, or IOW, co-ordinated, attack would have been difficult to achieve. It is likely that only one of these three types of attacks was actually attempted, and I have no idea which one, if any, actually occurred.)
North Sea: Redesigned light battlecruiser HMS
Furious joins Grand Fleet (rebuilt since March 19) as carrier with 10 aircraft.
Aircraft carrier HMS
Furious with a Sea Scout Z anti-submarine balloon on its rear flight deck:
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Baltic: Dreadnought battleship
Petropavlosk at Helsinki issues anti-government ultimatum threatening to sail and shell Petrograd.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turkish cavalry reconnaissance from Beersheba (Palestine); shelled and forced to retreat.
Political, etc
France: Pershing leads 14,500 US troops through Paris; Captain Charles E Stanton says at Piepus Cemetery ‘Lafayette, we are here!’.
King George V and Queen Mary arrive in Calais to visit the Western Front: © IWM (Q 5580):
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United States: Liberty air engine sent to Washington tests (publicly passed on September 12).
China: Chinese Republican forces, opposing Puyi's restoration to the throne, begin surrounding monarchist troops in Peking.
Argentina: Government protests against U-boat torpedoing of 2 ships. German Ambassador Count Luxburg using Swedish Legation to contact Berlin.