Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres (aka the
Battle of Passchendaele): German 2nd Guard Reserve Division reduced to 2,208 men including 600 sick. British 39th Division captures St Julien after 3,861 casualties.
Artois: British success on ‘Infantry Hill’. Unsuccessful Allied attack astride the Scarpe on August 9.
A British staff officer demonstrates a German helmet and trench armor to King George V during a visit on the Western Front:
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Eastern Front
Bukovina: Kovess’ (made Field Marshal by August 9 and Baron) Austro-German Third Army’s XIII Corps (42nd Honved Infantry Division and 5th Infantry Division) reoccupies capital Czernowitz, then 10 miles east regains Vama on August 5. Gheremissov’s Eighth Army having evacuated Kimpolung on August 2.
Rumania: 600 Russo-Rumanian guns begin 3-day bombardment (170,000 shells) for offensive on August 7 (cancelled).
Southern Front
Salonika: Milne ordered to send 18 pieces of 6-inch and 60-pounder guns to Egypt, then an infantry division on August 9; 10th Division relieved from August 19.
Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Linforce action at Tandamuti: 3 British columns repulsed by Lettow’s concealed positions but Germans retreat West until August 4 to Narunyu. KAR Signal Coy formed.
Ethiopia: Lij Yasu escapes from fall of Dessie (Wollo Province’s capital), but no more resistance.
Political, etc
Germany: Ferdinand George Frobenius, German mathematician known for his work on group theory, passed away:
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Russia: Petrograd Soviet indicts Lenin for treason. Provisional Government decree decree dissolves Finnish Diet.
United Kingdom: Ship Repairing directorate formed.
United States: Emergency Fleet Cooperation requisitions all steel ships of over 2,500t building.