- The Leader reports that the recent YMCA war benefit concert raised more than £24, and was so popular that a repeat performance is to be held. YMCA Concert And Cantata. The YMCA Musical Festival
- A German night attack is repulsed north-west of Hill 321 in the Battle of Verdun
- Russians cross Pruth, west of Czernowitz in Bukovina; heavy fighting continues near Lutsk
- Turkish troops are repulsed by Russians at Saripul in Persia
- British forces occupy Handeni in German East Africa