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On This Day - 15 July 1918

Spotlights over Paris Theatre definitions: Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland.  Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and Austro-Romanian fronts.  Southern Front comprises the Austro-Italian and Balkan (including Bulgaro-Romanian) fronts, and Dardanelles.  Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres comprises Egypt, Tripoli, the Sudan, Asia Minor (including Transcaucasia), Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, China, India, etc.  Naval and Overseas Operations comprises operations on the seas (except where carried out in combination with troops on land) and in Colonial and Overseas theatres, America, etc.  Political, etc. comprises political and internal events in all countries, including Notes, speeches, diplomatic, financial, economic and domestic matters.  Source: Chronology of the War (1914-18, London; copyright expired)

Western Front

Second Battle of the Marne begins.  Great German offensive on front of 50 miles east and west of Reims, from Chateau-Thierry on west to Main de Massiges on east.  On east Germans held in check.  On west Germans penetrate two or three miles on 20-mile front; cross Marne between Dormans and Fossoy (west of Chateau-Thierry).

Americans repulse Germans at Vaux.

Naval and Overseas Operations

British transport "Barunga" sunk by German submarine.

French transport "Djemnah" torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean, 442 lost.

Political, etc.

Field-Marshal Conrad von Hotzendorf (Austria) placed on retired list.

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