A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The Russians advance on Halicz.

H.M.S. Vanguard (battleship) is destroyed by an internal explosion with heavy loss of life, at Scapa Flow.

British naval airmen bomb the War Office at Constantinople and the Goeben and other ships in harbour.

July 10 (Tues.)

A fierce German attack on the British positions near the mouth of the Yser (the Battle of Nieuport): two British battalions are cut off and overwhelmed; the Germans win the right bank of the river at the mouth.

The Russians capture Halicz (see July 23).

July 11 (Wed.)

The Russians capture Kalusz (17 miles from Stanislau).

Mesopotamia:—The British defeat a Turkish force on the Euphrates.