August 22, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Banjsice Plateau, Battle of Hill 70, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, civilian casualties, Daugava, Dover, Dvina, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Kent, Latvia, Lens, Margate, Menin, prisoners of war, Ramsgate, Riga, Russia, Slovenia, Ypres

More progress on Bainsizza Plateau and new progress farther south; prisoners now over 16,000. British line advanced 500 yards on a front of about a mile near Ypres-Menin road; farther north they advance half a mile on a two-and-a-half mile front; Lens invested from south, west, and north. German activity on the Dvina, 10 miles south of Riga; Russian line withdrawn from three to eight miles in the north. Ten enemy aeroplanes over Margate, Dover, and Ramsgate; 24 casualties; three raiders brought down and five of protecting German squadron awaiting their return lost.

August 12, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Marasesti, Belgium, civilian casualties, England, Felixstowe, Focsani, Galicia, Germany, Great Britain, Kent, Kerensky Offensive, Margate, Romania, Royal Naval Air Service, Russia, Southend, Trotus, Ukraine, Zbrucz

Russian resistance on the Zbrucz stiffening. Rumanian offensive in highlands of the Trotus Valley; further Rumanian retirement in the Focsani sector. Twenty German aeroplanes off Felixstowe; driven off by British airmen they turn south and attack Southend and Margate; 32 killed and 43 injured at Southend; a Gotha aeroplane destroyed during return of raiders to the Belgian coast.

July 7, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, casualties, civilian casualties, England, Epernay, Essen, Flanders, Germany, Great Britain, Kent, Koblenz, London, Ludwigshafen, Margate, Nancy, Scheldt, Thames, Trier, Wytschaete

Slight British advance east of Wytschaete. Great German raid on London by about 20 aeroplanes; 59 killed and 193 injured; four raiders brought down on return journey, one at mouth of Thames, two at sea 40 miles from the east coast, and a fourth off the mouth of the Scheldt; two British pilots and one observer killed, one pilot wounded, two British machines destroyed by enemy and two crashed from other causes. French aeroplanes bomb Treves, Coblentz, Ludwigshafen, and Essen as reprisal for German raids on Nancy and Epernay the day before.

June 16, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Alexander Kerensky, Bullecourt, casualties, civilian casualties, disease, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, peace, Petrograd, Royal Flying Corps, Russia, Russian Revolution, Zeppelin

Further fighting around Bullecourt. British withdrawal on left bank of the Struma owing to advent of the malarial season. Duma resolution against a separate peace or prolonged inactivity at the front; All-Russian Congress of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates meets in Petrograd; M. Kerensky defends his policy amidst applause. Zeppelin attack in East Anglia; it is brought down in flames by an R.F.C. pilot, three members of the crew surviving; a second airship raids the Kent coast; three killed and injured.

June 13, 1917

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air raid, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Messines, Battle of Mount Ortigara, Belgium, casualties, civilian casualties, England, Essex, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Kent, London, Margate, North Sea, prisoners of war, Royal Navy, Shoeburyness, Trentino, United States of America

Sir Douglas Haig reports 7,342 prisoners taken since June 7. Austrian reverse on the Trentino border, attempting to retake Mt. Ortigara. British armed merchant cruiser Avenge torpedoed in the North Sea; one man killed. Raid by 15 German aeroplanes on London; one brought down; 157 killed, 432 injured. General Pershing in France.

June 5, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, casualties, civilian casualties, civilians, England, Essex, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland Hill, Imperial German Navy, North Sea, occupation, Ostend, Reginald Tyrwhitt, Royal Navy, Scarpe, sinking, SMS S20, Souchez, submarine

Commander Tyrwhitt, in command of British light cruisers and destroyers, engages six German destroyers, and in a running fight sinks the S.20. German naval base and workshops at Ostend bombarded by British warships. Raid by 18 German aeroplanes on Essex and on naval establishments in the Medway; 38 casualties; two machines brought down by anti-aircraft guns, two brought down by home air forces, and certainly two, and perhaps four, brought down by naval airmen at Ostend. British make slight gains south of Souchez River. British attack south of the Scarpe; progress on Greenland Hill.

May 25, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Carso Plateau, civilian casualties, Dunkirk, England, Folkestone, Germany, Great Britain, Hermada Ridge, Italy, Jamiano, Kent, Medeazza, prisoners of war, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, Slovenia, Tenth Battle of the Isonzo, Timavo, Vodice

Further progress by Italians on the Southern Carso from Jamiano to the mouth of the Timavo; they approach Medeazza, facing the Hermada Ridge; heavy fighting in the Vodice area; nearly 23,000 prisoners in a fortnight. Raid by 17 German aeroplanes on Folkstone; 76 killed and 174 injured; three aeroplanes brought down on return journey by R.N.A.S. from Dunkirk.

May 23, 1917

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Adriatic, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Carso Plateau, civilian casualties, England, Germany, Great Britain, Hill 93, Hudi Log, Italy, Jamiano, Kostanjevica, Pietra Rossa, prisoners of war, Slovenia, Zeppelin

Great Italian Advance on the Southern Carso from Kostanjevica to the sea; Hudi Log, Jamiano, and Hill 93, east of Pietra Rossa, carried; over 9,000 prisoners. Four Zeppelins raid East Anglia; one death.

May 7, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, Australia, Battle of Arras, Battle of Bullecourt, British Empire, Bullecourt, civilian casualties, Cormicy, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, Lens, London, Queant, Sapigneul, Second Battle of the Aisne, trenches

French extend their positions south of Sapigneul. Australians widen their hold on the section of Hindenburg switch line between Bullecourt and Quéant; German repulse near Lens. German aeroplane drops four bombs in North-East London; three casualties.

April 30, 1917

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1917, aeroplanes, air raid, bombardment, civilian casualties, evacuation, Frederick Stanley Maude, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Mus, Mush, Netherlands, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Schouwen, Sebeldt, Shatt-el-Adhaim, Turkey, Zierikee

General Maude defeats 13th Turkish Army Corps at the gorge of the Shatt-el-Adhaim, in the Jebel Hamrin. Turks announce Russians evacuate Mush. Zierikzee, at the mouth of the Sebeldt, bombarded, presumably by hostile aeroplane; three people killed.