Western Front
Heavy artillery battle in Flanders.
Four German attacks against French lines on the Aisne fail due to effective French artillery fire.
Battery of U.S. 155 mm artillery guns near Froissy, France: © IWM (Q 69953):
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German Crown Prince Wilhelm inspecting German soldiers at Charleville-Mézières, France: © IWM (Q 23775):
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A British soldier using salvaged sewing machines as a writing desk in Fampoux, France: © IWM (Q 5700):
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Eastern Front
Galicia: Germans near Tarnopol despite “heroic” Royal Navy Air Service armored car action (5 cars lost).
German and Austro-Hungarian gains against Russian lines in Galicia grow, with several thousand Russian prisoners captured.
Battle of Smorgon-Krevo: Russians retreating on the Sereth.
Baltic Provinces: Russian North Front ‘offensive’ (until July 23): only 2 of 6 divisions allocated participate (182nd Division at gunpoint).
Naval and Overseas Operations
H.M.S.
Otway torpedoed, 10 lost.
Political, etc
Serbia: The text of the Corfu Declaration, proposing the creation of Yugoslavia:
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Russia: Kerensky orders arrest of only 6 Bolsheviks (excluding Trotsky) and allows only voluntary disarming.
In Petrograd, around 160 people were killed and 700 wounded in the past few days due to government clamp down on the Bolsheviks.
The ‘hesitation’ of Kerensky won him the mistrust of both the officers’ corps and the revolutionaries:
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United Kingdom: Lloyd George says 1917-18 food supplies already secured. Churchill speech at Dundee ‘
We are the heart, the centre of the League of Nations. If we fail, all fail.’ Lloyd George says new German Chancellor’s speech means military have won, speech of July 23 says peace only achievable with German people.
British government orders the reduction of bread prices by 25% and meat prices by 30%.
United States: In Washington D.C., drawings begin for the draft lottery to provide 687,000 men for the U.S. military:
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Poland: Arrest and deportation to Germany of General Józef Pilsudski.