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Old 06-29-2016, 09:20 AM
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29 June 1916

Western Front
Battle of the Somme:
British bombardment continues.
Battle of Verdun: German attack on Hill 304 repulsed.
Champagne: German first and second line trenches taken at Tahure.
French 400 mm railway gun firing near Ravin d’Harbonnieres: http://imgur.com/ezCd1gV* © IWM (Q 70036)

Eastern Front
Brusilov Offensive:
Russian troops piece three lines of Austro-Hungarian lines near the city of Kolomea and claims the capture of 10,000 prisoners.
Germans repulsed north-east of Vilna.

Southern Front
Italian advance in Trentino continues, and troops recapture Fort Mattassone and the ridge of Monte Trappola.
Italy forms 78a Squadriglia.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Royal Navy Air Service detachment withdrawn but 4 Royal Navy Air Service kite-balloons arrive in Mesopotamia.

Naval and Overseas Operations:
Turkish steamers sunk by Russians in the Black Sea.
Italy loses two sailing vessels to SMA U-35; the UK loses a steamer to the same source, and a minesweeping trawler strikes a mine and sinks (a not uncommon occurrence).

Political, etc.
Roger Casement, Irish nationalist, is sentenced to death for treason. Roger Casement was sentenced based on reinterpreting the Treason Act of 1351. Casement writes he will be “hanged on a comma.” He is escorted to Pentonville Prison: http://imgur.com/49IVuFH
British Foreign Office send Casement diary homosexual extracts to US; Foreign Minister Grey rules against further copying on June 30.
New York City is experiencing a polio outbreak. 32 cases are identified today, bringing the total up to 206.
Győző Zemplén, Hungarian physicist in the field of hydrodynamics and kinetic theory of gases, is killed in action.
U.S. demands apology from Austria for the sinking of the "Petrolite".
Austria: Vienna Crown Council attacks CoS Conrad for first time, Emperor orders him to give more info.
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