Western Front
British troops make further gains at the Arras Battle, taking all of the commune of Roeux and advance north of Gavrelle.
A French soldier operating a listening device to detect German aeroplanes: © IWM (Q 70881):
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King Albert I of Belgium and British Field Marshal Haig inspecting men of the 5th Dragoon Guards. © IWM (Q 2162):
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Strong German reconnaissances north-east of Vauxaillon (Soissons), west of Craonne, Berry au Bac and in Champagne.
Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italian Gonzia Command and Third Army (28 divisions) vs Austrian Fifth Army (11 divisions). Italians attack at noon with main thrust north of Gorizia east of Plava, capturing Hill 383, and Zagora and Mt Santo. East of Gorizia Messina Brigade takes Hills 174 and 126 but forced out by heavy counter-attacks. Badoglio promoted Lieutenant-General (confirmed August 23).
Serbia: Serb Sumadija Division captures 2 spurs a mile from Mt Dobropolje.
Naval and Overseas Operations
German airship
L-22 destroyed in North Sea by British warships. Another soruce says: Royal Navy Air Service ‘Large America’ H12 flying boat shoots down Zeppelin
L-22 near Terschelling Light Vessel.
German submarine SM
U-59 accidentally hits a German mine and sinks. 33 crew members are killed with 4 survivors.
Political, etc
Germany: First German tank (A7V) in workup trial at Mainz.
Russia: Petrograd Soviet proclamation appeals for end to fraternization. At STAVKA C-in-Cs discuss resigning en masse, decide to visit Petrograd. After the Russian revolution, the fraternities between German and Russian soldiers, who believed that the war had now come to an end, happens along the Eastern front:
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United Kingdom: King tours in industrial north. Merchant shipbuilding control reverts to Admiralty.
Sir John Jellicoe to be Chief of Naval Staff, Sir E. Geddes Controller.
British labour unrest; engineers on strike, ditto omnibuses in London, weavers in north threaten strike.
United States: Germans are banned from boarding any American ship heading to any Russian port.
U.S. Senate approves the Espionage Bill, which prohibits interference of the military and aiding the enemy, by a vote of 80 to 8. “Interference of the military” is quite vaguely defined, and the Espionage Act is widely used to suppress German-language newspapers & force striking workers back to work. Wikipedia has this to say:
“Among those charged with offences under the Act are German-American socialist congressman and newspaper editor Victor L. Berger, labor leader and four time Socialist Party of America candidate, Eugene V. Debs, anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, former Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society president Joseph Franklin Rutherford, communists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Cablegate whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden. Rutherford's conviction was overturned on appeal.[1] Although the most controversial sections of the Act, a set of amendments commonly called the Sedition Act of 1918, were repealed on March 3, 1921, the original Espionage Act was left intact.[2] “ and “The Act also gave the Postmaster General authority to impound or to refuse to mail publications that he determined to be in violation of its prohibitions.” This part of the act was the most widely-used section used to suppress the German-Lanugage newspapers in circulation in 1917.