12 July: Difference between revisions

*{{WF}} - Crown Prince checked in Argonne after vigorous offensive. German advance round Souchez and capture cemetery. German attack in the "Labyrinth" (north of Arras) repulsed.

*{{EF}} - Enemy offensive on the Bobr and Narev fronts (north-east of Warsaw).

*{{SF}} - Turkish [[trench]]es before [[Achi Baba]] captured. Italian [[air-raid]] on Pola.

*{{NO}} - Engagements reported between British-Belgian force and Germans on north Rhodesian frontier.

*{{PO}} - State control of coal industry announced in [[Germany]]. South Wales miners conference rejects Government proposals.

*{{WF}} '''- British gain Mametz Wood''' and make progress in Trones Wood. Successful raids in Loos salient.

** Germans attack strongly at [[Verdun]]; gain some ground at Chapelle St. Fine, at intersection of Fleury-Vaux roads.

*{{EF}} - Furious fighting continues on the Stokhod, with no decisive results.

*{{SF}} - An Austrian attack on the Adige driven back.

*{{AE}} - Russians under General Yudenich advance west of Erzerum on the Erzingan road and recapture Mamakhatun.

*{{WF}} - British [[air raid]] into [[Belgium]].

*{{EF}} - Russian progress towards Dolina ([[Galicia]]). General Kornilov crosses the Lomnica river.

*{{AE}} - Announced that Turks have been routed by King of Hejaz in northern Arabia, 700 killed, 600 prisoners.

*{{PO}} - [[Mesopotamia]] Debate: Mr. A. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, resigns. Chinese Republicans enter Pekin; Tuan Chi Jui, P.M.; Fen Kwo Chang, President.

*{{EF}} - Announcement of Allied force on Murman coast. Czecho-Slovaks capture Kazan (on River Volga); Czecho-Slovaks control Siberian Railway east of Penza.

*{{SF}} - French advance on both sides of River Devoli (southern Albania); Austrians retreat.

*{{NO}} - Japanese battleship ''Kawachi'' blown up and sunk in Tokuyama Bay, 500 casualties.

*{{PO}} - Count Hertling in Reichstag on [[Belgium]] as a pawn. Prussian Upper House expels Prince Lichnowsky.

**&nbsp;Mr. Huges (Australian Premier) ''re'' Pacific islands.<ref>Speech of the Right Honourable W.M. Hughes (Australia Premier) ''re'' Pacific Islands: Australia will not consent to return to [[Germany]] captured Pacific Islands.</ref>

**&nbsp;Denaturalisation Bill passes first and second reading in House of Commons.