Portia Willis, suffragist, pacifist, lecturer, activist, and, oddly, a supporter of US aviators during World War One, at, naturally, the peace parade.
A peace parade was held in New York City demonstrating the naïve American belief, still present to this very day, that demonstrating in the US while it is at peace somehow has an impact somewhere else on other countries fighting.
Elsewhere, more productive, and less noticed, things were occuring.
Taking the parabellum approach, a review of U.S troops took place at Geartheart, Oregon.
The Russian Second Army was caught and surrounded by German forces in open fields near Frogenau, where they were mowed down by the Germans.
Russian troops killed over 60 ethnic Germans in Abschwangen, East Prussia.
A French attack at Saint-Quentin cost 10,000 casualties in an unsuccessful effort which proved costly partially due to a captured French officer having alerted the Germans to the pending attack. The Germans took 7,000 casualties.
The Austro Hungarian Army formed new defensive lines at the Grila River in Ukraine against the Imperial Russian Army.
The British Royal West African Frontier Force engaged the Germans In the First Battle of Garua near the port city of Garoua, German Cameroon.
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