Western Front
Britain:General Wilson to Haig on Gotha London raid ‘
one would have thought the world was coming to an end’.
Flanders: Slight British advance on Messines sector.
Aisne: French counter-attacks at Braye-en-Launnois. German forces attack French lines at the Aisne on a 2-mile front and take 830 prisoners.
Eastern Front
Galicia: “Kerensky” Or “Second Brusilov (Summer)” Offensive: Austrian Third Army retreats to river Lomnica, losing 1000 PoWs. Its C-in-C Tersztyanzky replaced by Kritek by July 16.
Southern Front
Turkey: An RNAS Handley Page (flown out to Mudros in May) bombs (8 x 112lb) Constantinople (Golden Horn area) and Turco-German Fleet for 35 minutes after 7hr flight; destroyer damaged and Turkish War Office.
Handley Page O/100 biplane on an airfield in the Mediterranean:
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Isonzo: Austro-Hungarian “attacks” (once again, probably no more than raids) on Italian positions west of Tolmino (Upper Isonzo) repulsed.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Dreadnought battleship H.M.S.
Vanguard sunk by internal explosion in Scapa Flow harbor, as a result of unstable cordite (804 dead, only 3 survivors).
Mediterranean: Ludendorff warns German Navy that British may try landings behind Turks in Palestine, U-boat always to be in Eastern Mediterranean (July 16) and Port Said-Gaza route to be mined, 3 U-boats assigned (September 29).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Russians report evacuation of towns on Mesopotamian front owing to Turkish pressure.
Political, etc
Germany: Military propaganda service entrusted with enlightenment of the front-line troops.
Kaiser rejects von Bethmann-Hollweg’s peace policy without annexation.
France: French Minister of Finance orders the prohibition of imports into the country except for items necessary for the war.
United Kingdom: Secret Session of House of Commons on London air raids.
Japan: Hanabusa Yoshimoto, Japanese diplomat, privy councilor, and former Chairman of the Japanese Red Cross, passed away:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...994161950732288
United States: 300 German and Austro-Hungarian dockworkers are fired from New York City docks on suspicion (without evidence) that they spied on US troop sailings.