23rd August
Battle of Mons begins: general German attack on the French from Charleroi to Dinant.
French begin to fall back from Sambre and Meuse; also in northern Alsace.
East Prussia: Germans evacuate Insterburg; at the Battle of Frankenau, Germans driven back.
Galicia: Russians take Brody and Tarnopol.
Tsing-tau blockaded and bombarded by the Japanese.
Germany: Hindenburg receives command in East Prussia.
Canada passes the War Measures Act which allows the government to intern “enemy aliens.” Nearly 4000 Ukrainians from Austria-Hungary, including women and children, will be interned in the camps.
The first test for the British Expeditionary Force: German troops begin assaulting British positions at Mons-Condé canal.
German airship "Z.-8" shot down in the Vosges.
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