Western Front
Royal Flying Corps ranges 127 targets; 5 Martinsydes (1 lost) bomb Zeppelin sheds at Cognelee and Ronet sidings, Namur.
Royal Marine Artillery gunners with 15-inch shells with messages to the Germans:
http://imgur.com/cilLtf2 © IWM (Q 943)
Battle of the Somme: British advance west of Pozieres.
Battle of Verdun: French retake Fleury (also reported for yesterday) and make progress towards Thiaumont, 1,750 prisoners taken (another source says only 800, which is probably more accurate).
Eastern Front
German heavy bomber unit Rfa 501 (Riesenflugzeug Abetilung, Giant Airplane Section 501) formed at Vilna-Porubanok.
Brusilov Offensive:
Brusilov meets Kaledin and Bezobrazov at Lutsk, decides to renew drive for Kovel. Desperate fighting near Lyubashevo and Guledichi (east Kovel).
Pripet: I Turkestan Corps captures village 4 miles west of river Stokhod but Austro-German Polish Legion counter-attack forces it east (until August 4).
Carpathians: Austrian counter-offensive makes few gains (until August 14). German 1st Infantry Division arrives at Kirlibaba Pass (August 10).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Russians capture Turk trenches at Ognut (Armenia).
Turks advance to attack on Major-General Hon. H. Lawrence's force at Romani (northern Sinai).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain puts the first of 17 accident-prone, fast steam-powered K-class large submarines into Royal Navy service.
North Sea: 4 Royal Navy C-class submarines sail from Lerwick Island (Shetland) under tow on epic 3,500-mile voyage to Baltic via Archangel (August 21), rivers and canals by barge, reach Petrograd on September 9, but hampered by unusable electric batteries so manage only two patrols before winter.
Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika (German East Africa), occupied by Belgian forces.
Political, etc.
Germany: The German blockade-runner submarine Deutschland leaves Baltimore and heads back to Germany.
United Kingdom: Easter Rising: Casement hanged at Pentonville Prison.
Balfour second anniversary naval statement.
With yesterday’s publication of the Anglo-French paper, British War Propaganda Bureau claims: ‘We swept the German news out of the American papers’.
The interim report of the Committee of Inquiry chaired by Mr Justice Bailhache into the administration of the Air Services (the Bailhache Committee) is released. The Committee recommended that there should be one Department charged with the equipment of both flying services.
Prime Minister receives deputation from Miners, Railway Men, and Transport Workers. Union ‘Triple Alliance’ discuss demobilization with Prime Minister.
United States: President Wilson states he still supports the right of states to decide whether or not women get the right to vote. (Note: may have happened yesterday, in response to Hughes’ announcement of support for the right of women to vote.)
Austria-Hungary: Four Czech deputies in touch with Masaryk imprisoned.
Italy: Italy breaks off the German-Italian commercial treaty of 1891. While Italy is at war with Austria-Hungary, it is still neutral with Germany.