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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 July.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 8 July on The Great War wiki.
1914
- Count Tisza makes grave statement in Hungarian Chamber concerning the murder of the Archduke.
1915
- Template:WF French success at Fontenelle (Vosges). British repulse German attack south-west of Pilkem.
- Template:EF Austrian troops withdraw to heights north of Krasnik after defeat on Urzedowka.
- Template:SF Monticello taken by Italians (Trentino).
- Template:NO Union troops reach Tsumeb (German south-west Africa), releasing all prisoners captured by enemy. Germany reply to Lusitania Note.[1] Italian cruiser Amalfi torpedoed and sunk by Austrians in Mediterranean.
- Template:PO Third reading of National Registration Bill. Order in Council passed to increase Canadian Expeditionary Force to 150,000 men. Austrian Note to Romania.
1916
- Template:WF British penetrate southern part of Trones Wood; hand to hand fighting in Ovillers. French take Hardecourt. Violent artillery duel at Verdun. Heavy rain hampers operations.
- Template:EF Russians break through north of Lutsk and cross Upper Stokhod at Ugli and Arsenovich, having advanced 25 miles in four days on a 40-mile front. South of Dniester they capture Delatyn and threaten right flank of Bothmer's army.
- Template:PO A Russo-Japanese Agreement in regard to the Far East signed and announced.[2] Order in Council rescinds Declaration of London of 25 February, 1909, and all orders arising therefrom.
1917
- Template:WF Heavy fighting on the Aisne; German attacks repulsed.
- Template:EF Austrian front broken west of Stanislau by General Kornilov; 7,000 prisoners taken, cavalry pursue enemy, rout stemmed by German reserves.
- Template:PO America declares an embargo on exportation of foods, metal and coal.
1918
- Template:WF Successful French attack north-west of Longpont (west of Villers-Cotterets); 346 prisoners.
- Template:EF Czecho-Slovaks occupy Irkutsk. Declaration of aims to Allies by Siberian Government.
- Template:SF Italians win passage of Vojusa and occupy Fieri (20 miles north-east of Valona); French and Italians threaten Berat (north-east of Valona).
- Template:NO British monitors aid Italian advance on Lower Vojusa.
- Template:PO Report of five M.P.'s re enemy aliens, recommending stricter treatment. House of Commons prolongs life of Parliament to 30 January 1919.
1919
- President Wilson returns to the United States.
References/notes
Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)
- ↑ The German attack is defended and proposal made that Americans should travel in their own neutral ships with sailing notified in advance.
- ↑ The object of the Russo-Japanese Agreement of July, 1916, was the mainenance of peace and the safeguarding of special Russian and Japanese rights and interests in the Far East. The text is to the following effect: "Article 1. Japan will not be a party to any political arrangement or combination directed against Russia. Russia will not be a party to any political arrangement or combination directed against Japan. Article 2. Should the territorial rights or the special interests in the Far East of one of the contracting parties recognised by the other contracting party be threatened, Japan and Russia will take counsel of each other as to the measures to be taken in view of the support or the help to be given in order to safeguard and defend those rights and interests. This treaty is a sequel to the Russo-Japanese arrangements concluded in July, 1907, and July, 1910."