19 July

1914

Template:WF - German attack near Les Eparges (Verdun), repulsed with heavy losses, also west and south-west of Souchez.
Template:EF - Russians concentrating on Narev. Germans attacking north and south of Warsaw. Fiercest fighting on Lyublin-Kholm line.
Template:SF - Italian success on Carso plateau after two days' fighting: capture of M. San Michele.
- Total casualties in Dardanelles to 30 June, 42,434 announced in House of Commons.
Template:PO - Venizelist movement gains ground as opposed to Germanophil policy of Gournaris.
- Bulgaria again declares neutrality.

Template:WF - German attacks on Longueval and Delville Wood continued; British regain some lost ground, repulse attack on Waterlot Farm.
- French take more trenches south of Estrees. Bombardment of Verdun front.
Template:AE - In Persia Russians are defeated and driven back north of Kermanshah by Turks. 3rd Turkish Division discovered at Bir el Abd (Sinai).

Template:WF - Heavy German attacks south of Lombartzyde (Nieuport sector), south of St. Quentin, and north of the Aisne repulsed.
Template:EF - German counter-offensive opens; Russian positions east of Zloczow (east Lemberg) pierced as a results of troops insubordination.
Template:AE - Turkish cavalry force encountered west of Beersheba (Palestine) and driven back.
Template:NO - Report on operations in East Africa published.^[1]
- Main German positions in the region of Narongombe (East Africa) attacked; heavy casualties on both sides.
Template:PO - German Imperial Chancellor speaks in the Reichstag on the "Majority Resolution".^[2]
- Statement issued on Russian and German Socialists meeting at Stockholm.
- Attempted assassination of M. Kerenski.

Template:WF - French and Americans advance on Soissons-Thierry line, taking Vierzy (north of Ourcq) and Neuilly St. Front (south of Ourcq).
- South of Marne, French retake Montvoison.
- British capture Meteren (west of Bailleul), taking 300 prisoners.
Template:NO - British airmen, supported by detachment of Grand Fleet, bomb Zeppelin base near Tondern (Schleswig-Holstein).
- French liner Australien (Messageries Maritimes) torpedoed in Mediterranean, 20 lost.
- U.S. armoured cruiser "San Diego" sunk off Fire Island, off New York, 6 lost.
- Justicia (White Star liner) torpedoed off north coast of Ireland, 10 lost.
Template:PO - Honduras declares War on Germany.
- British Ministerial changes. Admiral Sims made G.C.M.G.
- Statement of Lord R. Cecil re Allies Trade Policy.
- Denaturalisation Bill read third time in House of Commons.
- Sedition Committee Report (Rowlatt) published in India.

Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)

↑ Near the coast at Kilwa, British columns are closing in on one of the larger bodies of enemy troops. In the south, the enemy are being driven towards Mahenge.
↑ The Centre, Radicals, and Majority Socialists passed a so-called "Majority Resolution," declaring that no desire for conquest actuated Germany; that "declining all thoughts of the forcible acquisition of territory, the Reichstag strives for a peace by agreement and a permanent reconciliation of the nations"; it also "rejects all plans which aim at economic exclusion and enmity between peoples after the war" — and aims only at an economic peace and freedom of the seas as preparatory for permanent friendly relations and the strengthening of international law. "So long as hostile Governments reject such a peace and threaten Germany and her Allies with schemes of conquest and oppression, the German people are determined unshakably to stand together," etc. Passed by 212 to 126. On this resolution Dr. Michaelis made a long speech, which appears to have pleased nobody — especially as, whilst nominally accepting the Resolution, he qualified his acceptance by talking of "your resolution, as I interpret it." He declared, fact, for a victor's peace and the inviolability of German territory, and stated that Germany would not again offer peace.