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UK May-Aug 1914

- Britain condemns Germany's ultimatum to the Lowlands, and declares that Britain will protect its neighbour and ally. We urge France to take a hardline stance against Germany (also because a lot of WWI battles took place in France so it would be convenient for you to be in the war as well).

- The British Expeditonary France arrives in the Lowlands, to join Lowlandish (?) troops on the German border.

- The besieging of Tobruk persists. Conditions in the Ottoman city are reaching appalling levels, with outbreaks of disease caused by the British dropping animal carcasses into the port's streets. As temperatures climb in the summer, the British opt to kill the Ottomans of dehydration. Elsewhere, resistance in Libya crumbles though many Ottoman troops escape into French North Africa and avoid capture.

- An Ottoman counteroffensive in late-May threatens to cave in Greek lines in the area around Kozani, but British and Anzac reinforcements save the line's integrity and begin a weeks-long engagement that costs thousands of lives. Renewed British assaults push the Ottomans further and further north and into Ottoman Thrace, until reaching the major city of Thessaloniki, where vicious and bloody street warfare ensues.

- The RAF sees continued use but is limited by the long distances required for planes to fly. The DoMS is instructed to look into ways in which planes could be transported, and the department begins working on theoretical designs for an aircraft-carrying ship.

- Police raid several suspected communist cells, investigating possible links with the American terrorist group Libre.