The Great War enters its fourth year since the opening of hostilities.
Western Front
The Duchess of Sutherland with a doctor at a Red Cross Hospital at Calais: © IWM (Q 3212):
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Aerial and artillery activity picks up in Flanders, as the British and French troops prepare for another offensive.
Eastern Front
SMS
Bodrog, a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I on the night of 28 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. The river monitor was later given to the post-war nation of Yugoslavia as a war prize, and was renamed
Sava.
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Galicia: Battle of East Galicia (or,
Battle of Dvinsk) ends (see 18th). Austro-German troops reach Russian frontier at Gusiatyn (Wild Cossack Division confronts 40,000 deserters there from July 25-27) on river Zbruch. Kaiser Wilhelm II leaves for Vilna.
Battle of Marasesti: Romanian advance in Moldavia continues.
Interrogation of Russian officers who have fallen into Austro-Hungarian captivity:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
German submarine SM
UB-20, which sank 13 ships during its career, hits a mine and sinks with 13 crew deaths.
Political, etc
British & German governments ratify an agreement to regulate the treatment of prisoners. Repatriation of wounded prisoners will resume.
Germany: Imperial and Prussian Cabinets reconstructed.
Russia: Somerset Maugham sails for Vladivostok.
United Kingdom: Royal Warrant authorizes Tank Corps in British Army (see yesterday).
British War Office announces the creation of a special Jewish regiment to fight against the Ottoman Empire.
In Kingsland, London, an attempt to hold a peace meeting in a church is broken up by an angry mob, which included wounded veterans.
United States: The Wilson Administration predicts that the war will cost the U.S. $29 million ($554 million today) every day.
Switzerland: Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician who received the 1909 Nobel Prize for his work on the thyroid, passed away:
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