Western Front
Battle of the Somme: 4 German counter-attacks fail at Delville Wood; British XV Corps suffers heavy casualties. Fierce German counter-attacks between Ginchy and High Wood. By this time BEF has consulting psychiatrist and neurologist for ‘shell shock’ cases.
German aircraft losses in combat since July 1 are 51. Royal Flying Corps on Western Front destroyed and missing are 66.
Artois/Flanders: British gas attacks at Arras and Armentieres.
Battle of Verdun: French defensive Battle of Verdun ends [This is the French date. The German list carries the battle up to September 9th.]
French 305 mm railway gun firing near Lihons:
http://imgur.com/kGEVvz9 © IWM (Q 78885)
A captured German Rumpler C-IV biplane at Ricquebourg aerodrome, France:
http://imgur.com/ziUYcwc © IWM (Q 55598)
Eastern Front
Austro-Hungarian losses since 4 June 614,000, German 150,000 including 15,000 today.
Transylvania: Romania allows Russian troops to pass through the Dobruja region as they prepare to push further into Transylvania.
Fighting at Halicz and east of Lemberg; many prisoners taken in Lutsk area by Russians.
Southern Front
Buk (north-east Drama, Macedonia) air raid on bridges.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Allied shipping losses 205,000t (British 23 ships worth 43,354t with 8 lives lost). Total including 77 ships (129,368t) to U-boats in Mediterranean. 2 U-boats lost.
At Pless Hindenburg and Ludendorff press for unrestricted U-boat war without delay, Bethmann-Hollweg’s opposition now confined to timing and fear of breach with Scandinavia. Fronts must be stabilized lest Holland or Denmark declare war while Germany has no reserves.
East Africa: Smuts’ advance split by Uluguru Mountains; 600 South African mounted troops go round west side, 1,900 British march on Dar-es-Salaam.
Western Desert: British armoured cars capture Senussi convoy northwest of Jaghbub
West Africa: Slavery formally abolished in Nigeria.
Political, etc.
Germany: Hindenburg letter to War Minister demands doubled munitions, trebled artillery and machine-gun production by May 1917.
Germany moves Russian Navy prisoners to “reprisal camps” in retaliation for the harsh treatment of German Navy prisoners in Siberia.
Canada: Canadian casualties to date (published 22 September 1916): 8,644 killed (or died), 27,212 wounded, 2,005 missing.
Romania: Romania bans the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages across the country.
United States: U.S. War Department pulls back 15,000 National Guardsmen from the U.S.-Mexican border.
Ford Motor Company announces they made a record $1 million per week during the past year due to rising demand.
U.S. railway companies recruit 2000 strikebreakers in case the railroad general strike goes ahead.