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.
“At the least whosoever has the spirit of Christ, shall find that spirit in him striving against that which is contrary, and by little and little gaining ground. Where there is no conflict, there is no spirit of Christ at all.”
–Richard Sibbes, Description of Christ