3rd September 1917
Western Front
British front slightly advanced near St. Julien (Ypres).
Champagne: French raid gas tanks on Souain-Somme Py road.
Eastern Front
Riga finally evacuated by Russians, forts and bridges blown up, etc.
Germans claim many thousands of prisoners about 150 guns.
Southern Front
Pola bombed.
Aviation
Six German aeroplanes bomb Sheerness, etc.; 132 killed, 96 injured, mostly naval ratings.
Five Italian aeroplanes drop pamphlets over Vienna informing the people about the recent Italian victory on the Carso plateau.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Bruges again bombed.
German warships break into Gulf of Riga and shell Livonian villages.
Political, etc.
German Fatherland Party is founded by far-right militarists (the party will later popularize the “stab-in-the back” myth).
Ship Losses:
Agios Andreas (Greece) The sailing vessel was sunk in the Aegean Sea by SM UC-74 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
Alentejo (Portugal) The cargo ship caught fire, exploded and sank at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
HMS Begonia (Royal Navy) The Azalea-class sloop departed on patrol in the Atlantic Ocean. She was subsequently sunk by enemy action with the loss of 94 crew.
HMT Italy (Royal Navy) The naval trawler was lost on this date.
La Negra (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel 50 nautical miles (93 km) south south west of Start Point, Devon (49°29′N 3°53′W) by SM UC-50 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of four of her crew.
Majoren (Norway) The cargo ship was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north west of Bloody Foreland, County Donegal, United Kingdom (55°14′N 8°56′W) by SM U-95 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Ragnhild (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 14 nautical miles (26 km) south by east of Flamborough Head, East Riding of Yorkshire by SM UB-30 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of fifteen crew.
Treverbyn (United Kingdom) The cargo ship struck a mine laid by U 75 (Fritz Schmolling) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east south east of the Ushinish Lighthouse, South Uist, Outer Hebrides with the loss of 27 crew.
Van Allens-Broughton (United States) The five-masted schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She sank the next day.
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