JULY 9
In the Pacific, the German commerce raider Wolff captures and sinks the American bark Beluya. Fourteen people, including two women, are taken prisoner.
JULY 14
FIRST U.S. LAND CASUALTY OF WORLD WAR I
(Dr.) Louis J. Genelba is wounded in action by a shell splinter while serving with the British Medical Corps at Arras, France.
JULY 31
Armed American oil tanker Montano is torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland: 16 crew members and eight Navy gunners drown.
--Cooter
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