July 19, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Allies, Battle of Soissons, Chateau-Thierry, Denmark, France, Germany, Grand Fleet, Great Britain, HMS Furious, Lys, Marne, Meteren, Montvoisin, prisoners of war, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Second Battle of the Marne, Soissons, Tonder, Tondern, United States of America, weapons, Zeppelin

Further French and American progress towards the Soissons-Château-Thierry road; 16,000 prisoners and 50 guns taken to date; south of the Marne Allies retake Montvoisin, with 400 prisoners and four guns; Germans claim 20,000 prisoners since July 15. British retake Meteren, on the Lys front, with 300 prisoners. Airship base at Tondern, Schleswig-Holstein, bombed by British airmen, escorted by a detachment of the Grand Fleet; two Zeppelins believed destroyed; four British machines fail to return, three landing in Danish territory.

June 26, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Alexander Kerensky, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, London, Paris, Vieux-Berquin

British troops take a strong point west of Vieux Berquin. Gotha raid on Paris; no casualties. M. Kerensky in London; he attends the Labour Party Conference.

June 19, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovak Legion, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Heligoland Bight, Italy, Montello, North Sea, Omsk, Royal Navy, Russia, Russian Civil War, Russian Revolution, seaplanes, Second Battle of the Piave River, Siberia

Italians regain the initiative; furious fighting from Montello to the sea; Austrian lines on the Montello thrown back. Fight between British naval squadron and German seaplanes north of the Heligoland Bight; a seaplane destroyed by gun-fire. Reports of counter-revolution in Western Siberia; Bolshevist Government said to be overthrown and Tomsk taken by revolutionaries and Czecho-Slovak troops.

June 6, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Aisne, Allies, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, hospital, HS Koningin Regentes, HS Sindoro, Netherlands, Paris, prisoners of war, sinking, SM UB-107, submarine, The Hague, Third Battle of the Aisne

Allied reactions against enemy progress increasing; north of the Aisne Le Port taken. Hospital ship Koningin Regentes, in company of Sindoro carrying British delegates to Hague Prisoners’ Mission, sunk, presumably by torpedo. Gotha raid on Paris; one killed and a few injured.

May 22, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, civilian casualties, communications, France, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Liege, Mahua, Mozambique, Nanungu, Paris, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, railway, sinking, William FS Edwards, Zeebrugge

British air raid on Liége railway junctions. German air raid on Paris by about 30 machines, only one of which gets through defences; 1 killed, 12 injured. Air raids on Zeebrugge; a German destroyer in the harbour sunk by a bomb. General Edwards in contact with Von Lettow Vorbeck‘s forces between Nanungu and Mahua and drives him westwards.

May 21, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Al Fathah, Battle of the Lys, Belgium, casualties, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Mannheim, occupation, Operation Michael, Paris, Tekrit, Tigris

Announced that since opening of German offensive on March 21, 1,000 German aeroplanes destroyed or driven down. British air raid on Mannheim. Two squadrons of Gothas try to raid Paris; three people killed; a raider brought down. Announced British troops occupied Fathah, 45 miles above Tekrit, on the Tigris.

May 19, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Capo Sile, casualties, civilian casualties, England, Etaples, France, Germany, Great Britain, hospital, Italy, London, Mozambique, Nanungu, Portugal, Portuguese East Africa, Portuguese Empire, Venice, William FS Edwards

Italian storming party capture advanced positions at Capo Sile, north-east corner of Venetian lagoons. Great air raid on London in which some of new large Gothas participate; 44 killed and 179 injured in London; five raiders destroyed and believed two others fall in flames into the sea. German airmen bomb large group of British hospitals at Etaples, far outside battle area in France; 300 casualties. Nanungu, German headquarters in Mozambique, occupied by General Edwards.

May 18, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Australia, British Empire, Cologne, France, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, internment, Morlancourt, prisoners of war, seaplanes, SM U-39, Spain, submarine, Ville-sur-Ancre

Australians capture post west of Morlancourt and later raid Ville-sur-Ancre, north-west of Morlancourt; 381 prisoners. First daylight raid by British airmen on Cologne; all return safely. German submarine U39 damaged by bombs from French seaplane, towed into Cartagena harbour by another U-boat and interned.

March 11, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Armenia, Armentieres, Australia, Belgium, British Empire, Erzurum, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Jerusalem, Laventie, Messines, Nablus, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Paris, Passchendaele, Portugal, Russia, Shechem, Turkey

Australian raids near Messines. German raids at Passchendaele Ridge, in Armentières district, and against the Portuguese, near Laventie, defeated. Further advance astride the Jerusalem-Shechem road. Turks recapture Erzrum after a stern defence by Armenians. German air raid on Paris by several squadrons of aeroplanes; four machines brought down.

March 8, 1918

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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, Flanders, France, Germany, Houthulst Forest, Paris, Polderhoek, Ypres

German attack south of Houthulst Forest gains some ground, but, in counter-attack, Germans driven back some 300 yards behind their original line; German attack near Polderhoek Château, south of Ypres; advanced posts taken and lost. German air raid on Paris; a Gotha brought down.