Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Heavy artillery work on the Oise and between the Somme and Armentieres; two attacks on Bucquoy repulsed.
German forces begin bombarding Allied lines in Flanders in preparation for the next phase of its Spring Offensive.
Captain G McElroy RAF (18 victories since February 18) in SE5 collides with tree; he returns to front June, killed in action July 31.
British soldier diving for cover from a bursting German artillery shell at Ayette, France: © IWM (Q 6494):
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Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: Bolsheviks evacuating Helsingfors. Red Guards also evacuating Helsinki; German Colonel Otto von Brandenstein’s 2000-strong brigade with 8 guns from Revallands unopposed at Lovisa to east.
German soldiers advance with an armored train in Finland:
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Siberia: French military mission ordered to screen all Czechs.
Southern Front
Adriatic: German Navy airship
L-59 (Bockholt) catches fire (cause unknown), crashes in Straits of Otranto before planned raid on Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta (23 killed, no survivors). Odd, because
L-59 had earlier been reported as destroyed from a fire that was possibly the result of sabotage (see 5 January, 1918).
ETA: Apparently, it was the
L-58 which was destroyed in the fire of 5 January, along with
L-46,
L-47,
L-51 &
SL-20.
L-59 is indeed, listed as destroyed by unknown causes on this date. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ccidents#1910s).
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Roger Keyes addresses Zeebrugge raiders, not one withdraws. Wind and high sea abort attempt on April 11 and 12.
Baltic: Red Fleet’s final ‘ice-crossing’ evacuation (until April 11) from Helsinki of 48 destroyers; 2 torpedo boats; 12 minesweepers/layers; 10 submarines; 92 other vessels to Kronstadt by April 22, only 85 left behind according to April 5 agreement with Germans.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Kerak (south of Dead Sea) occupied by Hejaz troops.
Armenia: Transcaucasia; Turkish troops reported to be marching on Batum.
Ottoman Empire announces it has cleared Armenia of Russian troops and has crossed the frontier into the Caucasus.
Political, etc
Russia: Russian protests to Germany about landing in Finland and to foreign Consuls in Moscow about Vladivostok.
France: M. Georges Clemenceau receives Mr. Newton Baker, U.S. Secretary of War.
A suspected German spy being captured in Amiens, France: © IWM (Q 11582):
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United Kingdom: National meat rationing introduced (until December 15, 1919).
United States: U.S. announces it has shipped 1.1 million tons of food to the Allied countries in March. Shipments include 200 million pounds of pork, 80 million pounds of beef, and 15.5 million bushels of wheat.