At Ypres, General Albrecht ordered all attacks to cease to allow reserve units to move to the Eastern Front. The Allies did not detect this change for three days.
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Falkenhayn Calls Off Western Offensives, Suggests Peace
The United Kingdom doubled income tax to cover war expenses.
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The Germans broke through allied lines to advance on Zwarteleen, 3,000 yards east of Ypres, There, they were checked by a British cavalry brigade. More on this:
And some fools feel that cavalry played no role in the Great War. It very much did.
Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, who held the position of Caliph, albeit it was not universally accepted, declared jihad on the Allies, which would seem to have ultimately undermined his position as it was certainly the case that the Central Powers were no more in league with Islam than the Allies.
On the same day Ottoman troops attempted to ambush British troops marching on Basra, but failed.
The Ottomans also, however, counterattacked the Russians, forcing them into a retreat.
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There was brewing trouble in Mexico.
The Imperial Russian Army prevailed over the Germans and Austro Hungarians in the Battle of Vistula River.
The French and British took back Nieuwpoort, Belgium, brining to an end the Battle of Yser. The Belgians had lost between 20,000 and 40,000 troops in the campaign, the Germans over 76,000.
The Germans broke through Allied lines near Gheluvelt Belgium but a British counterattack restored the line.
The Japanese Navy began shelling Tsingtao.
The HMS Hermes was sunk by the U-27 in the Starit of Dover.
German troops raided the Portuguese fort at Cuangar, Angola.
The Ecuadorian army defeated rebels at Esmeraldas,Ecuador.
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The SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau, reflagged as ships of the Ottoman Navy, bombarded Russian ports Novorossiysk, Odessa and Sevastopol in the Black Sea.
The Ottoman Empire had yet to declare war.
The Germans took the crossroads at Gheluvelt, Belgium. Followup advances placed their artillery within range of Ypres.
Engineers flooded the lowlands near Yser to retard German advances.
The Polish Legion fought the Russian Army at the Battle of Mołotków with substantial losses.
The Australian government passed the War Precautions Act.
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Rebel Boer units were attacked by the South African Army, forcing Boer general Christian Frederick Beyers to disperse his forces.
The Germans suspended attacks at Ypres to regroup.
Exhaustion and language difficulties frustrated a British effort at Neuve-Chapelle.
French troops held at Armentières in spite of a two day German artillery bombardment.
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The Germans attacked Allied positions at Gheluvelt, Belgium and attempted to overrun French defenses on the main canal leading to the Lys at Armentières.
Rebel Boers were defeated in the Maritz Rebellion causing General Manie Maritz to flee to Germany. He returned to South Africa and was convicted of treason in 1923, but freed by a Boer administration in 1924. He became a Nazi sympathizer in the 1930. He was killed in a car wreck in 1940 at age 64.
Woodrow Wilson spoke at the YMCA in Pittsburgh.
Mr. President, Mr. Porter, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I have come here to bid Godspeed to the great work of the Young Men's Christian Association. I love to think of the gathering force of such things as this in the generations to come. If a man had to measure the accomplishments of society, the progress of reform, the speed of the world's betterment, by the few little things that happened in his own life, by the trifling things that he can contribute to accomplish, he would indeed feel that the cost was much greater than the result. But no man can look at the past of the history of this world without seeing a vision of the future of the history of this world; and when you think of the accumulated moral forces that have made one age better than another age in the progress of mankind, then you can open your eyes to the vision. You can see that age by age, though with a blind struggle in the dust of the road, though often mistaking the path and losing its way in the mire, mankind is yet—sometimes with bloody hands and battered knees—nevertheless struggling step after step up the slow stages to the day when he shall live in the full light which shines upon the uplands, where all the light that illumines mankind shines direct from the face of God.
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The Germans captured Langermark, Belgium.
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The First Battle of Ypres commenced with a German attack at Armentières, Messines and Langemark, Belgium.
The British repulsed the Germans at La Bassée, but with high casualties.
Canadian immigration officer William C. Hopkinson was shot dead in a Vancouver provincial courthouse by Sikh Mewa Singh. It was in retaliation for his testimony the day prior. A feud had broken out in the Sikh community over the Komagata Maru incident.
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