Western Front
Marne and Aisne: Franco-American troops reach river Vesle and straighten out Salient (Soissons-Reims). Adolph von Carlowitz takes over German Ninth Army from Fritz von Below.
Army Group Boehn, commanded by Max von Boehn, formed.
Somme: German division counter-attack at Morlancourt (south of Albert) regains much ground and 250 PoWs (British 18th and 58th Divisions replacing Australians).
Barbed wire lines the streets of the ruined town of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 6895):
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Peter Strasser, the commander of Germany’s airship division, killed in the loss of
L-70 in last night’s raid:
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A daylight British patrol in the town of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 6905):
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, the US Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in France during his inspection of Allied naval facilities and administrations:
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King George V inspects officers of the 2nd Brigade RAF near St. Omer: © IWM (Q 12101):
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: U-boat sinks destroyer HMS
Comet. Allied mining conference at Malta (until August 9), US Navy to lay second Otranto mine barrage and a South Aegean one.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Czech's, Yugo-Slavs, some Poles vote against Austro-Hungarian Budget.
Vienna newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung praises Marshal Foch: ‘
…the Allies now possess a leader whose name arouses confidence and … they believe that, unlike his predecessors, he will not fall far short of the mature skill … possessed by Hindenburg and Ludendorff’.
Germany: Retirement of Herren Ballin and Holtzendorff from Council of Central Europe.
Russia: SOVNARKOM authorizes unions to send armed men to get bread from villages. Recalled German Ambassador leaves Moscow (arrives Pskov on August 11).
France: General Ferdinand Foch created Marshal of France.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) is a deliberate organizer and diplomat and can overcome the national self-interests of the Allied nations:
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M. Malvy sentenced to five years' banishment.
United Kingdom: British Government issue Declaration to Russian peoples, stating that they have no intention of interfering in Russian politics (see July 26th). (ed note: curious disclaimer, considering the already-ocurring and continued interference).
Speech of Mr. Montagu on Indian Constitutional Reform.