Western Front
Battle of the Somme: British capture trench east of Gueudecourt.
Eastern Front
Transylvania: Austro-Hungarians attack in Predeal Pass; Romanians pursue Austrians in Vulkan Pass (northern Wallachia front).
Southern Front
Ninth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians occupy Faiti Hrib (dominating Kostanjevitsa-Isonzo front).
French 155mm heavy artillery guns near Cerne in Macedonia:
http://imgur.com/xmJIZRq* © IWM (Q 79013)
Naval and Overseas Operations
Arctic: U-56 sunk by Russian patrol craft gunfire off Lapland.
Black Sea: Russian Fleet shells Constanza (and on November 4).
North Sea: British destroyers rescue Dutch*
SS Oldambt, routing 5 German destroyers.
Political, etc.
United Kingdom: Asst Chief Commissioner Thomson meets Jewish master spy Alex Aaronsohn by St James’s Park; Aaronsohn arrives at Cairo on December 12.
British soldier carries away two dogs that had wandered into the parade grounds during the review:
http://imgur.com/IWLRFDN* © IWM (Q 1500)
Russia: Declaration of Labor Group at Petrograd to working classes.
United States: Campaign ad for Charles E. Hughes, the Republican nominee for President:
http://imgur.com/8xaYDr0
President Wilson says the GOP’s criticism of US foreign policy is “partisan” and “unpatriotic.”