A hundred years ago - 04/08/1918

Hi Steemians,

every day I will try to provide the most important events of the day a hundred years ago.
If I forgot something that should be mentioned, let me know.
Have a great day.

04/08/1918

• According to international statistics now published in the German Reich, the total losses of the countries involved in the war during the four years of the war (until July 15, 1918) were supposed to be about 11 million dead and 19 million wounded.
  
  
• A decree on the banning of all bourgeois press products appears in the Soviet Union.
  
  
• Several thousand people in China have been victims of a pneumonic plague epidemic until today.