Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: General German retreat from the Scarpe to above river Aisne.
Second Battle of the Somme: Chaulnes reoccupied by French. Crown Prince William Special Order claims ‘There is no reason for depression. Even 24 enemy states [actually 23] will not overcome the German nation.’
Battle of the Scarpe 1918: Canadian 2nd and 3rd Divisions (5,801 casualties) have fought more than 5 miles forward astride Arras-Cambrai road since August 26, capturing over 3,300 PoWs, 53 guns and 519 MGs, but II Bavarian Corps clings to part of Fresnes-Rouvroy line.
Western Front, Air: England: August-September No.5 (Operations) Group (Headquarters, Dover) is removed from South-Eastern Area and granted the status of an independent command. The Group is responsible for units in the Kent and Dunkirk area.
A Gun Carrier Tank, with its intended transportable gun removed, is being used as a supply tank near Arras in August 1918:
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Inside a destroyed church near Bethune, France: © IWM (Q 11259):
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American Tank Corps men practicing a charge on the historic battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
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A Royal Engineer inserts a message into a cylinder attached to a messenger dog, Etaples: © IWM (Q 9276):
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Eastern Front
Volga: Colonel Kappel’s 2,000 Whites just fail to seize Romanov railbridge (Moscow-Kazan line) and Trotsky’s HQ train in Red Fifth Army rear. On August 29 Trotsky shoots 20 men from Red regiment that fled on.
Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Turkestan: Affair near Kaakhka. 500 Punjabis (32 casualties) and Whites repel Reds from Merv near Kaakhka.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Japanese report retreat of Bolsheviks to Ussuri.
General Grigori Semenov capture Borzia Station; Bolsheviks retreat towards Onon River.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Destroyer HMS
Ouse with help of Blackburn Kangaroo seaplane depth charges and sinks
UC-70 off Yorkshire coast.
Political, etc
Russia: Mr. Miliukov leaves Cadets and forms Constitutional Monarchist Party.
United Kingdom: Announcement of retirement of Mr. Page, U.S. Ambassador in London.