Western Front
Flanders: Slight British advance south of Ypres. Artillery duels on the Aisne and in Champagne.
Queen Mary inspecting Bristol Fighter planes at the aerodrome at Saint-Omer: © IWM (Q 11848):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...596224532197377
Eastern Front
Galicia: “Kerensky” Or “Second Brusilov (Summer)” Offensive: German and Austro-Hungarian forces launch probing attacks against Russian forces around Brzezany (Berezhany).
Naval and Overseas Operations
A squadron of the German High Seas Fleet in Wilhelmshaven:
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German submarine SM
UC-7, credited with sinking 32 ships, goes missing, presumably sunk.
UB-12 sighted a submarine believed to be
UC-7 on 5 July, west of the Bligh Bank, 46km (29mi) from Ostend. The submarine in question was reported to be on a course that would run it into a minefield, and Verschollen notes that the time and place would be correct if
UC-7 were returning to base. The bodies of two crew members were later washed ashore on the coast of Flanders on 19 July. There was also a claim that
UC-7 was sunk by HMS
Salmon on 7 July off Southwold, but this was doubted since the reported position was too far off
UC-7's operating area.
British destroyer mined in North Sea (announced), 18 survivors. (Note: I am unsure if this refers to HMS
Cheerful or HMS
Tartar, both of which struck mines the previous month).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Lawrence confronts 300 Turks from Aqaba who reject two surrender summons.
South Persia: Action at Kafta (north of Shiraz): 250 British soldiers defeat 500 tribesmen and storm fort.
Improvement in comfort and health of troops in Mesopotamia announced.
Political, etc
Germany: Hunger and coaling strike by ratings beginning with High Seas Fleet flagship secures the establishment of food supervisory committees aboard most ships during July.
Kaiser Wilhelm declares that German POWs who did not surrender voluntarily will be awarded the Iron Cross.
Reichstag opens.
Russia: Reval naval base ‘Death Battalion’ leaves for front.
France: Bonnet Rouge editor arrested, paper suspended on July 12.
French Marshal Joffre and US General Pershing at the Les Invalides, Paris:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...262803771518977
United States: Due to debt troubles, demolition of Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe tower begins so it can be sold for scrap:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...294245905879040
China: Anti-monarchist Chinese forces capture the Peking-Tientsin railway in the fight to oppose the restoration of Emperor Puyi.
Sweden: Belgian Socialists announce at Stockholm their determination to make no peace with German Imperialism.