A successful British counter-attack at Hooge: the trenches lost on July 30 are recaptured.
A British submarine sinks a Turkish battleship, the Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa.
The British destroyer Lynx is mined off the Moray Firth.
A Zeppelin raid on the east coast of England.
A Zeppelin is destroyed near Ostend.
Aug. 10 (Tues.)
The German advance beyond the Vistula begins.
Gallipoli:—The Turks regain Chunuk Bair.
A German squadron fails to force its way into the Gulf of Riga (see Aug. 17, 18, and 21).
The German mine-layer and raider Meteor is blown up, to avoid capture by British cruisers near the German coast.