3 July

1915

 * Aeroplane air raid on East Suffolk. There are no casualties.
 * Russians leave Gnila Lipa for Zlota Lipa (Galicia).
 * Dardanelles: Turks lose 5,159 k. and 15,000 prisoners in last five days.
 * No South Africa's offer of volunteer contingent announced by General Smuts.

1916

 * - Fierce fighting continues; British capture La Boiselle and part of Ovillers. French capture Chapitre Wood, Feuillères, Buscourt, Flaucourt; also Assevillers to the South. Germans gain and lose Damloup work (Verdun). North of Ancre actions indecisive. 12,300 prisoners to date.
 * - Battle of Baranovichi continues south of Vilna. Russian sea-attack on German lines near Riga.
 * - French air-raid on Sofia from Salonika.
 * - Russians again resume offensive in Armenia, west of Erzerum.
 * No - British advance in East Africa, in region between Lake Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza.
 * - Report of Royal Commission on the causes of the Irish Rebellion issued. Russo-Japanese treaty re the Far East signed.

1917

 * - German offensive on a front of 11 miles north of the Aisne repulsed with heavy loss. German attacks towards Verdun repulsed. British air-raid on Belgian towns.
 * - Russian attack of Brzezany (Galicia) fails. Artillery activity growing in the Stokhod area (Volhynia).
 * - Riots in Amsterdam. Statement in House of Lords by Lord Hardinge (Ex-Viceroy of India) on report of Mesopotamia Commission.

1918

 * - French advance north of Aisne between Autrèches on east and Moulin sous Touvent on west; 1,000 prisoners.
 * - Germans prepare to advance on Murman railway. New Provisional Government established at Vladivostok.
 * No - Retreat of Germans at Nhamacurra.
 * - Proclamation of Sinn Fein as dangerous organisation. Death of Lord Rhondda (British Food Controller). Death of Mohammed V., Sultan of Turkey; succeeded by Mohammed VI (Vahid-ed-Din).