Western Front
Local fighting in Scarpe river region and at Hebuterne.
Heavy air fighting and bombing.
One long-range gun reported blown up.
British troops marching out from their billets at Hardivillers, France: © IWM (Q 78985):
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Beauvais Conference: Foch further empowered to direct Allied strategy. U.S. agrees to let its troops directly reinforce British and French units to help stem the German offensive.
Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: German Expeditionary Force lands in South Finland at Hangö (see 1st, 13th and December 16th). Germans total 9,445 German soldiers with 18 guns and 165 MGs, though another source claims up to 30,000.
German and Finnish troops hold a parade in Helsinki:
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White Guards capture Tammefors with 1,000 prisoners.
Ukraine: Ekaterinoslav taken by German forces. Indications of coalition between local authorities and Entente to “safeguard” Murman railway.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: 3 Russian and 7 British submarines blown up outside Helsinki harbor (latter by remaining 26 Royal Navy sailors) to avoid capture (until April 5) together with their mines and torpedoes; crews transferred to Murmansk via Petrograd. Captain Cromie stays behind to continue as Naval attaché and scuttle 3 small British merchantmen (April 9-10) trapped since 1914.
British Shipping output for first quarter 320,280 tons.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Persia: Baluchistan: Successful progress of operations against the Marris.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Count Ottokar von Czernin speaks on international situation and declares he has received peace offer from France (M. Georges Clemenceau denies this).
Russia: All-Russian Bureau of Military Commissars formed, works when military regions created from April 8.
United Kingdom: Allied Blockade Committee meets.
South Africa: General Botha appeals to "Fellow South Africans" for recruits.
United States: Large guns being constructed at the U.S. government arsenal at Watervliet, New York:
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