31st August 1918
Western Front
Australians capture Mont St. Quentin (overlooking Peronne).
End of Battle of Bapaume.
Germans evacuate Mt. Kemmel.
Eastern Front
Supplementary Peace Treaties signed at Berlin.
Bolshevik position 75 miles south of Archangel on Vologda Railway carried by Allies.
Naval and Overseas Operations
British attack Germans successfully near Lioma, un Lurio valley (Portuguese East Africa), and drive them south.
Political, etc.
London Police strike settled; men return to work.
Soviet secret police Cheka agents raid the British embassy in Petrograd, resulting in a firefight. Captain Francis Cromie, the chief of British Intelligence in northern Russia, is killed while defending the embassy.
Ship Losses:
Gamo (Portugal) The schooner was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean 370 nautical miles (690 km) off Flores Islands, Azores by
SM U-155 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
Milwaukee (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was torpeoded and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 260 nautical miles (480 km) south west of the Fastnet Rock (47°22′N 12°14′W) by
SM U-105 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of a crew member.
Norte (Portugal) The trawler was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) off Safi, Morocco by
SM U-22 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
MERCHANT SHIPPING
British, Allied and Neutral ships lost to enemy submarines, mines and cruisers etc in the month - 151 ships of 283,000 tons gross. (Lloyd's War Losses).