6 July: Difference between revisions

*{{WF}} - German success at Vaux Fery (Meuse). French recapture position on heights of the Meuse.

** British capture [[trench]]es near Pilkem.

*{{EF}} - Archduke Josef Ferdinand beaten near [[Krasnik]]. Russians take 15,000 prisoners between Krasnik and [[Lyublin]].

*{{SF}} - Battle for Carso plateau developing.

*{{NO}} - [[South Africa]]'s offer of Imperial Contingent gratefully accepted by Government.

*{{PO}} - Anglo-French Conference at Calais.

*{{WF}} - British win ground on slopes of [[Thiepval]]; two successful raids on Loos salient.

** French again repel attacks at Belloy; lose a small wood north of Hem. [[Artillery]] active at [[Verdun]].

*{{EF}} - Between the Styr and Stokhod Germans fall back in disorder from Chartorysk salient.

*{{SF}} - Italian pressure on the Trentino and Isonzo fronts continued.

*{{PO}} - Ministerial changes: [[Mr. Lloyd George]] becomes Secretary of State for War. Lord Derby, Under Secretary for War. [[Sir Edward Grey]] raised to Peerage as Viscount Grey of Falldon.

*{{WF}} - Aerial activity south of [[Ypres]]. German towns bombed by French aeroplanes.

*{{EF}} - Russian attack in Galicia spreading in region of Stanislau. Heavy fighting near [[Brzezany]].

*{{NO}} - British destroyer torpedoed in [[North Sea]], 8 lost.

*{{PO}} - Crisis in Germany owing to the demand in the Reichstag for reforms in domestic and foreign policy and a peace without annexations or indemnities.

** Second reading of Conscription Bill in [[Canada]] carried.

*{{EF}} - Cossacks fight Bolsheviks north-west of Nikolsk (between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk) and Czecho-Slovaks take Nikolsk.

** Assassination of Count Mirbach (German Ambassador at Moscow).

*{{SF}} - Piave delta cleared of Austrians by 23rd Italian Corps; 21,000 men and 63 guns, etc., taken by Italians since [[15 June]].

*{{PO}} - Publication of Mantagu-Chemsford Report ''re'' Indian Constitutional Reforms.

** U.S. first large aeroplane launched near New York.

** Silver Wedding of Their Majesties.