Western Front
Ypres – Second Allied attack of ‘Third Ypres’ Battle: British advance on 2-mile front east of Ypres, capturing Westhoek and Glencorse Wood; 18th Division captures Inverness Copse, but Gheluvelt Plateau as a whole not taken. French advance east and north of Bixschoote.
Nancy bombed; French bomb Frankfurt.
French soldiers loading a 220 mm mortar near Boesinghe, Belgium: © IWM (Q 78974):
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A German trench on the Yser Canal after its capture by the French Army:
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Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Mackensen beyond Susitsa river, strikes north at Romanians, always threatening rear of Russo-Romanian armies.
Central Powers also advancing in northern Moldavia.
Central Powers claim to have taken 1600 more prisoners this day.
A Ukrainian regiment mutinies in Kiev and exchanges fire with Russian forces.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Since the start of the war, the neutral Scandinavian nations have lost 933 ships and around 500 men due to torpedoes or mines.
East Africa: Linforce recces Lettow’s Narunyu position. First Belgians reinforce Iringa Force which crosses river Idete on August 26 after indecisive action there on August 12.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Allenby told he will get a division from Salonika, must ‘strike the Turks as hard as possible’; he moves GHO from Cairo 200 miles to Kelab near Front (August 11), forms DMC, XX and XXI Corps on August 12. British General Sir Edmund Allenby is ordered to seize Jerusalem from the Turks by Christmas 1917:
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Political, etc
United Kingdom: British Labour Party decide to send delegates to a "consultative" Conference at Stockholm (see 13th).
United States: Wilson signs the Food and Fuel Control Act, giving the federal government more power to control food and fuel production and supplies.
Sweden: Hilda Nilsson, Swedish serial killer convicted of killing 8 children, commits suicide in prison:
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