27th July 1916
Western Front
Fresh British gains at Delville Wood and near Pozieres; fighting continues at Longueval.
French make progress east of Estrees.
Germans make two strong attacks on French centre at Ville-au-Bois, north of Aisne, and in Champagne, west of Prosnes.
Eastern Front
Sakharov reaches Klekotov position, within five miles of Brody.
Southern Front
Hostile aeroplanes drop bombs on Bari and Otranto.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
Russians advance towards Sivas (west of Erzingan); a Turkish attack near Mosul is repulsed.
Yanbo, port of Medina, captured by Grand Sherif of Mecca.
Turks and Germans begin to move from Katiya line.
Political, etc.
Captain Chas Fryat, of the G.E. liner "Brussels", is court-martialled and shot by German authorities in Belgium for attempt to ram German submarine.
Laurence Ginnell, Irish Nationalist MP, is suspended from the House of Commons for calling Herbert Samuel “insolent.”
Kaiser Wilhelm: “The iron hurricane rages against our brave German men at the Somme. Everything is at stake.”
Ship Losses:
Agenda (Norway) The brig was sunk in the North Sea off the mouth of the River Tyne (55°15′N 0°40′W) by SM UB-23 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
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