Western Front
Britain: British Heavy Branch MG Corps becomes Tank Corps.
Flanders: British Guards Division occupies 3,000 yards of German evacuated front-line trenches and beats off counter-attack.
Aerial view of the Western Front. For the control of mud puddles, blastters and miserable dugouts the soldiers fought for weeks:
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Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Ongoing, but no further details this day.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Over 3,000 merchant ships armed (official statement by Britain.)
East Africa: Kilwa No 2 Column occupies Nanganachi 12 miles southwest of Narungombe, then Mssindye (July 29-30).
Political, etc
France: British Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in Paris after the Allied Conference: © IWM (Q 57038):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...232899685036033
Secret Agreement concluded between French and Italian Governments defining respective zones of influence in Asia Minor (see August 18th).
United Kingdom: Ramsay Macdonald’s Commons motion to approve Reichstag Peace Resolution defeated 148-19.
Serbia: Serbian Government's Yugo-Slav manifesto.