20.—Carpathia, Cunard liner, used as transport torpedoed off Irish coast. It was the Carpathia that saved most of the survivors of the Titanic in April, 1912.
20.—Justicia, giant liner used as troopship, is sunk off Irish coast.
21.—German submarine sinks three barges off Cape Cod.
23.—French take Oulchy-le-Chateau and drive the Germans back ten miles between the Aisne and the Marne.
30.—Allies astride the Ourcq; Germans in full retreat to the Vesle.
August
1.—Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. American poet and critic, aged 31, dies in battle.
2.—French troops recapture Soissons.
3.—President Wilson announces new policy regarding Russia and agrees to cooperate with Great Britain, France and Japan in sending forces to Murmansk, Archangel and Vladivostok.
3.—Allies sweep on between Soissons and Rheims, driving the enemy from his base at Fismes and capturing the entire Aisne-Vesle front.