9th August
U.S. will allow European reservists to return home and fight as long as they are unarmed and not in uniform.
German XIV and XV Corp counterattack French troops at Cernay, who are forced to retreat.
German submarine SM U-15 is rammed by HMS Birmingham, causing it to sink. It is the 1st U-boat to be sunk.
Sweden and Norway both reaffirm their neutrality in the present war.
Ottoman Empire begins its mobilization.
Germany, by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.
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