Western Front
Aerial activity south of Ypres.
German towns bombed by French aeroplanes.
Guynemer scores first victory with his new 37-mm Puteaux cannon-armed Spad S.12, DFW downed with a single shot (Fonck achieves 6 kills with this powerful but dangerous recoil weapon). Germans bomb RNAS Bray Dunes airfield, damage 12 aircraft (night July 6-7). Richthofen wounded in air combat by FE26 of No 20 Suadron Royal Flying Corps, out of action for 6 weeks, but JG1 scores 9 victories without loss on July 7 under Captain W Reinhard.
Manfred von Richthofen, the ace of the aces, recovers from his head injury:
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Flanders: Germans fire 300,000 shells of high explosive and gas at new British Yser bridgeheads taken over from French (until July 10).
Pershing tells Washington that a million men must be sent to France by May 1918.
Eastern Front
Galicia: “Kerensky” Or “Second Brusilov (Summer)” Offensive: Russian attack Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia spreading in region of Stanislau.
Heavy fighting near Brzezany. Russians claim 7,000 PoWs; 48 guns and Jutrena Gora summit by July 8, only German reserves stem rout.
Naval and Overseas Operations
British destroyer HMS
Itchen torpedoed and sunk in North Sea, 8 lost.
US submarines in the Gatun Lock of the Panama Canal:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Aqaba (Arabia) occupied by Arab forces. 300 Turks surrender to Lawrence’s 2,500 Arabs, 130 miles from Allenby’s front. Lawrence leaves with 8 camel riders to cross Sinai and get food ship from Suez (arrives on July 8).
Political, etc
Germany: Crisis in Germany owing to the demand in the Reichstag for reforms in domestic and foreign policy and a peace without annexations or indemnities.
Germany lifts travel restrictions on American citizens living in the country, who can now travel without a permit.
France: King George V watching a tank display at Neuve Eglise: © IWM (Q 6435):
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Canada: Second reading of Conscription Bill in Canada carried.
Netherlands: In Amsterdam, riot caused by potato shortages is ended when the army shoots at the crowd, killing 9 and wounding 114.
China: Li-Yuan-Hung, President of China, resigns and is succeeded by Feng-Kuo-Chang (see June 6th, 1916, July 7th, 1917 and October 11th, 1918).