Western Front
French Army Mutinies: 80 mutinous incidents until June 10.
Near St. Quentin and in Champagne heavy artillery and small patrol actions.
French listening post in a tunnel, to determine mine works of the Germans:
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Southern Front
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo: Italians win trenches near Medeazza (southern Carso).
Austro-Hungarian attacks on Vodice fail.
Fighting diminishing after maximum 4,500 yard Italian advance on Carso claims 16,000 PoWs plus 6,000 in Gorizia zone.
Naval and Overseas Operations
The first British air sea rescue occurs when two seaplane crew are rescued from North Sea by Flight Commander L. Gordon and Flight Lieutenant G. Hodgson in flying boat.
French liner
Yarra torpedoed in Mediterranean: 56 lost.
H.M.S.
Hilary sunk, 4 lost.
Black Sea: Russo-Rumanian naval coastal raid with 2 cruisers, 2 torpedo boats and 1 subchaser on Anatolia, sinks or captures over 50 sailing craft during shelling of four ports including Samsun and Sinope until May 30.
Political, etc
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm states the British “fight only to increase their power and don’t inquire where the right may be.”
Russia: The Petrograd Soviet refuses to accept the war aims of the Allies, pointing to British oppression of Ireland.
United Kingdom: Mr. A. Henderson goes to Russia on special Mission.
Mr. Balfour addresses Canadian Parliament in French and English.
Turkey: Vossuq ed Douleh, Persian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, resigns (see August 29th, 1916, June 6th, 1917, and August 7th, 1918).
United States: Attorney General Gregory instructs U.S. attorneys and marshals to use their utmost effort to arrest and prosecute anti-draft activists.
U.S. exports in the past 12 months reach a record of $6 billion, $2 billion more than last year, largely due to demand in Allied countries.
Women in the motor corps of the National League of Women’s Service taking an oath of allegiance to the U.S.:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...5529473/photo/1
John F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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