4. Austrian counter-attacks regain positions lost to Italians near Jamiano.
General Brusilov succeeds General Alexeieff as commander-in-chief of the Russian armies.
5. Registration in United States of 9,587,000 men of draft age.
7. The British, storming the German lines on a 9-mile front, capture the whole Messines-Wytschaete ridge, taking 6400 prisoners. Nineteen mines, burrowed for a year beneath the ridge, and filled with hundreds of tons of explosives, were exploded at the moment of attack, the shock being perceptible in London.
13. General Pershing and his staff arrive in France.
25. The French win an important position on the Chemin des Dames.
26. The first American troops are landed in France.
“If we would hold the true course in love, our first step must be to turn our eyes not to man, the sight of whom might oftener produce hatred than love, but to God, who requires that the love which we bear to him be diffused among all mankind, so that our fundamental principle must ever be, Let a man be what he may, he is still to be loved because God is loved.”
–Calvin, Institutes