Western Front
Unternehmen Mars: Battle of the Avre: 15 German divisions vs 7 Allied and 1,278 guns. After initial panic British and 2,250 Australian soldiers repulse 9th Bavaria Reserve Division before Villers-Brettoneux. and French between Avre and Luce rivers.
North of Somme, attack near Albert is repulsed.
Five French divisions counter-attack between Grivesnes and Noyon and gain ground in Castel-Cantigny sector.
Since March 21 Germans have advanced up to 40 miles and secure 1,200 sq miles of Allied territory, with 90,000 PoWs and 1,300 guns. BEF has received 101,000 infantry replacements so far, often teenagers. US 3rd Divisions lands in France.
British and French soldiers in a common line of defense:
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Troops of the London Regiment (London Scottish) at a boxing tournament at Mont. St. Eloi: © IWM (Q 321):
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A British soldier next to a fallen comrade awaiting burial near Domart, France:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
English Channel: British destroyer HMS
Bittern sunk with all hands in collision:
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Adriatic: 61 Austrian sailors land north of Ancona (night April 4-5) but are captured before they can seize a MAS boat and blow up submarines there.
Baltic: Rear-Adm Meurer’s Squadron (including 2 battleships) supports German landings at Hangoe; 2 more Russian battleships, 2 cruisers and 2 submarines escape from Helsinki to Kronstadt (arriving April 10).
Reported German intrigues in Morocco.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Delegation of the Zionist Commission arriving in Palestine to study the settlement of Jews following the Balfour Declaration: © IWM (Q 13184):
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Armenia: Sarikamish occupied by Turkish forces (see January 2nd, 1915).
Political, etc
Germany: Hermann Cohen, German Jewish philosopher who founded the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, passed away:
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United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George returns from visit to the front.