27th July 1915
Western Front
French capture position above Lingekopf.
Soissons and Reims bombarded.
Eastern Front
Enemy captures Goworowo (east of Rojan).
Warsaw attacked on three sides.
Austrians lose heavily in attack near Majdan-Ostrowski and on front Terriatin-Annopol (Cholm region).
Fighting for the Pruth south-east of Poltusk proceeding.
Romanian government seizes fifty carloads of German munitions in defiance of German demands to allow passage of arms.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
Russians forced back by Turks near Mush (Asia Minor).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Three Danish schooners torpedoed by German submarine.
Railway from Ancona to Pesaro bombarded from sea.
Political, etc.
Mr. Asquith announces total military casualties to 18 July, 830,995; naval 9,106.
Baron Michelham offers ten £1000 prizes to British airmen who shoot down a zeppelin.
French Chamber agrees to necessity of Parliamentary control for army.
Ship Losses:
Iceni ( United Kingdom): The fishing smack was scuttled in the North Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km) east of Lowestoft, Suffolk by SM UB-13 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Salacia ( United Kingdom): The fishing smack was scuttled in the North Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km) east of Lowestoft by SM UB-13 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Westward Ho! ( United Kingdom): The fishing smack was scuttled in the North Sea 25 nautical miles (46 km) south east of Lowestoft by SM UB-16 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
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