Western Front
German GHQ transferred from Charleville to Pless.
Colonel Lossberg, CoS German First Army, awarded Pour le Merite for outstanding Western Front service.
Battle of the Somme: Battle of Ginchy begins and ends; British 16th (Irish) Division (Irish nationalist and poet Lt Tom Kettle killed, aged 36) capture Ginchy, 7 miles east of Albert and trenches west and east of Leuze Wood.
Southern sector of Somme front: Germans begin counter-attacks against French Tenth Army round Berny and recover some ground (until September 12).
French troops claim the capture of 7700 Germans, including 100 officers, during the last 7 days at the Somme.
Battle of Verdun: Before Douaumont, east of Fleury, French carry whole system of German trenches.
French airmen drop bombs on Rottweil (Wurttemberg).
Naval air raid on Ghistelles, Handzaeme and Lichtervelde (Ostend).

Eastern Front
Kaiser visits Kovel, awards Carl Hoffmann Pour le Merite. Carl Hoffman was the Chief of Staff of the German 8th Army, and chief architect of the plan which resulted the annihilation of the Russian armies at the Battles of Tannerberg & the Masurian Lakes at the start of the First World War.
Transylvania Battle of Selimbar: Rumanians advance southwest of Hermannstadt.
Dobruja: Mackensen’s Bulgarian cavalry of 1st Infantry Divisions takes Silistria on Danube southern bank.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Main British advance of 1st Division reaches Tulo but Lettow’s 2,200 men with 24 MGs check it at river Dutumi (until September 12).

Political, etc.
Germany: Hindenburg and Ludendorff meet industrialists Gustav Krupp and Carl Duisberg (IG Farben) to discuss workforce shortage and Hindenburg programme.
United Kingdom: Cardiff: South Wales railwaymen resolve to strike, demanding increase of 10 shillings weekly on wages.
France: Paris, during last week, French and British Ministers for War and Munitions held conferences.
Austria-Hungary: Common Ministers Council discuss food crisis, War Minister mentions malnutrition signs in Army.
United States: U.S. Congress establishes the U.S. International Trade Commission, which provides trade expertise for the government.
Revenue Act of 1916 is passed in the US, raising the lowest income tax rate from 1% to 2% & the top rate to 15%. Estate tax is also created. (Apparently actually yesterday).
Greece: ‘Greek reservists’ (actually a false-flag operation initiated by the French) shoot at French Athens legation, Government apologies on September 11 (for what is really a secret French ploy).

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