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Old 03-28-2018, 10:41 AM
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28 March 1918

Western Front
Unternehmen Mars: First Battle of Arras 1918
(aka FOURTH BATTLE OF ARRAS) phase (see August 26th).
Great German attack on wide front north and south of Scarpe river defeated with very heavy loss. Ludendorffs Operation Mars fails bloodily with 9 divisions against 4 to clear northern flank of his ‘bulge’ against British Third Army and Arras itself. Local German attacks towards Amiens gain 3 miles; Germans take Hamel, Mezieres and Demuin, but fail to cut off XIX Corps’ retreat from Rosieres.
At 1630 hours Henry Rawlinson replaces Hubert Gough (recalled).
Strong French counter-attacks gain ground near Montdidier and between Hainvillers and Pont l'Eveque (Oise).
The end in the barbed wire – fallen German soldier in a Cheval de frise: https://ww2-weapons.com/wp-content/...tacheldraht.jpg
British Whippet Tanks on the move to meet the German offensive near Albert: © IWM (Q 8811): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...971236943441920
General Pershing asks for employment of U.S. troops.
Ludendorff orders completion of preparations for reduced Flanders Operation Georgette. In the estimated 8-10 days before (actually 12 days) he orders all efforts be made to secure Amiens. King visits BEF until March 30.
Royal Flying Corps lose 58 planes in low-level operations (7 German planes shot down) dropping 40t bombs and firing 242,000 rounds.
Royal Engineers near Roye setting an explosive charge on a tree to cause to fall across the road to slow down the German offensive. © IWM (Q 11573): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...695684022038528
French gunners firing on German positions at Nampcel: © IWM (Q 91197): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...002746606178304

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea
: H.M. boarding steamer Tithonus torpedoed.
Atlantic: Submarine-cruiser U-157 investigates Spanish liner Infanta Isabel de Bourbon. The latter is then allowed to proceed.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: 2/14th Battalion (London Scottish) soldiers with bagpipes marching through the recently captured town of Es Salt: © IWM (Q 12610): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...665503676928000
At Amman (Jordan), Ottoman troops launch counterattacks against British forces to prevent them from taking the city.
Mesopotamia: British armored cars capture Ana, its radio station and drive 73 miles beyond until March 29.

Political, etc
Australia
: Australian Cabinet reconstituted.
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29 March 1918

Western Front
Unternehmen Mars
: No serious fighting north of Somme. Between Somme and Avre Germans continue to advance, taking Hamel, Mezieres and Demuin.
French hold line west of Mezieres-La Neuville-Sire Bernard-outskirts of Montdidier. Continued French counter-attacks on southern flank.
Germans claim 70,000 prisoners and 1,100 guns since opening of offensive.
Quiet phase begins until April 3. Kaiser briefed at Mons. Luettwitz’s III Corps drives Anglo-French back up to 2 miles on 7-mile front between the Avre and Luce.
General Ferdinand Foch appointed to co-ordinate action of Allied Armies: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...381442215055360
Paris: Long-range gun causes 165 civilian casualties in Church of St Gervais.
French cemetery near Lens wrecked by shell fire: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...063147351994368
A Frenchwoman refugee with her cow in Amiens to escape the German offensive: © IWM (Q 10836): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...078234540212224
King George V in a conversation with men of the Gordon Highlanders at Frevent, France during his visit to the front: © IWM (Q 315): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...289610403631104
German soldiers helping push a 77mm field gun over rough terrain: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...319830691147776
Destroyed town of Misery, France in the Somme: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...351242534281216
German carts pass by an abandoned British tank near Combles, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...411640788582400

Eastern Front
Ukraine
: German 2nd Cavalry Division occupies Poltava.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters:
Palestine: British troops of the Imperial Camel Corps taking positions near Amman (Jordan) during the battle to capture it: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...305940515262464

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary
: Ottokar von Czernin urges Emperor Charles to launch Italian Front attack to support Hindenburg
Germany: Germans ratify Brest-Litovsk treaty of 3 March.
France: Senate votes 1919 class call up.
Canada: (Listed for Yesterday) In Quebec, anti-war and anti-conscription riots break out, fueled by French-Canadian nationalism.
Turkey: Turks ratify peace with Russia and Ukraine.
United States: Lloyd George cables Woodrow Wilson for immediate commitment of US troops plus 120,000 per month to Europe (Georges Clemenceau also on March 31).
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30 March 1918

Western Front
Unternehmen Mars
: French heavily engaged on 25-mile front between Moreuil and Lassigny as 14 Germans divisions gain 2 miles on average, capturing 6 villages and doubling Avre bridgehead.
French continue their counter-offensive; desperate resistance to German attacks.
French troops await a gas attack: https://ww2-weapons.com/?attachment_id=21461
North of Somme in Boivy and Boyelles region (Cojeul river) heavy German attacks break down. British, Australian and Canadian troops (including 1,400 cavalry) counter-attack, recapture most of Moreuil Wood and 3 other woods. Georg von der Marwitz’s 8 divisions gain only a mile, now 11 miles east of Amiens.
“Charge of Flowerdew’s Squadron” by Alfred Munnings, depicting the battle in Moreuil Wood: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...668333749469185
South of Somme in Luce valley, Demuin is lost and retaken by British.
Attack on Belgian trenches east of Nieuport repulsed.
RFC personnel loss of 199 since March 24 highest weekly total of war until September 15-21.
A view of the St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church, damaged by the Paris Gun: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...441840624726016

Southern Front
The Victoria Cross is awarded to Lieutenant A. Jerrard of No.66 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, for gallantry displayed during an offensive patrol over Italy in a Sopwith Camel (B5648). for destroying 3 of 6 out of 19 Austro-Hungarian fighters engaging 3 Camels.
Albania: Austro-Hungarian attempt against bridgehead in Avlona sector fails.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: British raid Hejaz railway near Amman (east of Jordan). Third attack on Amman fails against citadel, night retreat ordered. NZ Brigade covers it on March 31.
Armenia: Turkish I Caucasian Corps takes old Karaurgan frontier post, patrols penetrate c.8 miles.
War breaks out between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. In the next few days, several thousand Azerbaijanis are killed in Baku (Azerbaijan) by Armenians and allegedly by Bolsheviks.

Political, etc
United Kingdom
: H.M. the King returns from a visit to the front.
Mr. Lloyd George issues statement on course of present battle and announces appointment of General Foch.
British women at a munitions factory working during Easter weekend: © IWM (Q 110357): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...729998746673155
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Old 03-31-2018, 09:58 AM
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31 March 1918

Western Front
Unternehmen Mars
: French make some progress between Montdidier and Lassigny.
West of Albert German attack is stopped.
Indecisive fighting in Luce and Avre valleys. Eberhard von Hofacker’s LI Corps recaptures woods lost on March 30. Ludendorff orders April 4 thrust for Amiens after supplies brought up. British capture then lose Hangard.
1,059 aeroplanes reported brought down on all fronts in March, of which Allies make the ridiculous claim of 838, and Germans 221.
822 German aircraft supporting Ludendorff Offensive vs 645 British, but only 3 Anglo-German combats as Germans claim 19 Allied aircraft for loss of 4. BEF Fifth Army’s anti-aircraft guns claim 17 aircraft since March 21. Germans admit March loss of 161 aircraft and claim 447 Allied.
Comparative statement of bombing activity by British and German aircraft issued.
Easter Day: Germans claim 75,000 PoWs and c.1000 guns captured since March 21. German Army peak ration strength 7,917,170 men.
BEF March losses 173.721 soldiers, second worst month of war, including 124,462 infantry and cavalry since March 21.
General Erich Ludendorff as hard-working talented staff officer. During 1917-1918 he is the most powerful man in Germany, but he waged war as an end in itself, ignoring Clausewitz’s great maxim: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...dorff.jpg?ssl=1
American Army nurses receiving instructions on using gas masks: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...805499347566593

Eastern Front
Ukraine
: Germans form new Army Group Eichhorn (18 divisions) at Kiev for Ukraine occupation, CoS Karl Groener to organise railways; Alexander von Linsingen removed and Bugarmee dissolved.

Southern Front
Announced that British troops in Italy are now holding sector on Asiago Plateau instead of Montello.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Black Sea
: Battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim carries Central Powers Armistice Commission to Odessa.
Allied and neutral shipping losses during March: 169 ships (79 British with 490 lives) worth 244,814t (British 199,458t including 3 mined). U-boat figure 190 ships worth 368,746t, including 68 ships of 128,620t in Mediterranean (4 to Austrians); 5 U-boats sunk (2 to unknown cause).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
War Office reports progress in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and the Hejaz.
Palestine: However, despite the “progress”, British efforts to take Amman (Jordan) fail due to Ottoman counterattacks and rainy weather that frustrated supply efforts.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Arbeiter-Zeitung on Sea-power.
Russia: Russo-Romanian agreement on subject of Bessarabia completed.
France: “Blue Bird,” a fantasy film directed by Maurice Tourneur, is released: https://archive.org/details/theBlueBird1918
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George in message to Dominions says "the last man may count".
Canada: Thousands of Canadian soldiers are sent to Quebec to quell anti-war and anti-conscription riots.
The Toronto Arenas defeat the Vancouver Millionaires to win the 1918 Stanley Cup Finals: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...790393003954177
United States: Agreement between Capital and Labor to refer all questions to arbitration announced.
Daylight Saving Time goes into effect for the first time in the United States, moving the clocks forward one hour.
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Western Front
Unternehmen Mars
: Local attacks near Albert repulsed. British war poet and painter Pte Isaac Rosenberg killed aged 27 east of Arras (4th Division).
Grivesnes (southern Moreuil) heavily attacked but remains in French hands.
At Hebuterne (Bucquoy) heavy local fighting.
Germany: During April 8 German divisions transfer to Western Front.
British soldiers taking a rest near Amiens to eat during their retreat from the German offensive: © IWM (Q 10842): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...152775211470848
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) is also formed from those serving in air units of Women's Royal Naval Service, Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, the Voluntary Aid Detachment and the Women's Legion.
The Royal Aircraft Establishment is formed from the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough.
That’s the for realz note. Wikipedia reports this as: Wikipedia's report on this is: 1918 – The British Armed Forces started to grant personnel the power to fly.
All ex-RNAS units (add 60 to squadron numbers and 200 to wing nos); RNAS officers receive military ranks; 63 RAF squadrons and 1 Special Duty Flight in France. Includes RAF Nos 100 and 216 night bombing Squadrons transferred to French zone to raid rail targets in Chalons-sur-Marne sector on six 6 nights (until May 9).
Two mascot dogs of the British No. 22 Squadron on top of a Bristol Fighter: © IWM (Q 11991): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...425817019879426
England: In April London Air Defence Area has 282 fighters on 14 airfields, 260 guns and 353 searchlights.
France: 7 Gotha bombers drop 21 bombs on Paris.
Men of the South African Scottish brigade with their pet baboon holding a rifle: © IWM (Q 10841): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...167872914903046
British tanks at Mont-Saint-Éloi to meet the German offensive: © IWM (Q 338): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...395613782241280
German (??) observation balloons being sent up over Coblenz: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...456017409560577

Eastern Front
Finish Civil War
: German Expeditionary Force for Finland leaves Danzig.
Whites close ring on 1,000 Reds in Battle of Rautu (until April 5).
USSR: Red Army now 114,678 soldiers strong, 30 divisors planned (88 in May).
Ukraine: During April French Captain E Bordes, officially helping Red Ukraine C-in-C Antonov, moves 3,000 rail wagons of munitions to Samara on Volga, out of German reach. Similar convoys (including strategic minerals) to Tsaritsyn and Baku.

Southern Front
Mediterranean
: RAF HQ at Malta, 6 aircraft/seaplane carriers based there or at Alexandria and Mudros.
Salonika: No 150 Squadron RAF formed with flights from Nos 17 and 47 Squadrons, destroys or captures 36 Bulgarian aircraft for loss of 1 (until September 18).

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea
: British destroyer HMS Falcon sunk in collision.
Atlantic: In April fast US troop convoys begin, transporting 1,037,000 troops for loss of 3 transports; Aquitania carries 60,000 men in 9 voyages.
An American troop convoy is approaching the French coast with the safety of airships: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...itzug.jpg?ssl=1
Mediterranean: In April First Sea Lord and Royal Navy Intelligence chief Rear-Admiral Hall visit Malta to reorganize C-in-C’s staff to reduce shipping losses. Fixed Otranto Barrage begun (until September) but 121 U-boat passages (until August) despite 58 depth charge attacks.
Britain: In April HMS Simoom, first S-class destroyer completed (ordered Apr 1917), 18 more completed by Armistice. During April Allied shipbuilding for first time exceeds lost tonnage and does so for duration of war.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: Strong Turkish resistance near Amman; British retire to Es Salt.
During April one British anti-aircraft section of 2 guns (17 sections with EEF) in action 76 times, firing average of 100 rounds, Germans especially note hampering of reconnaissance during April 13-19.
Persia: Enzeli evacuated by the Russian regular forces (see February 17th).
Martinsyde Scout of No 72 Squadron RAF joins Dunsterville at Hamadan.
Mesopotamia: British troops 73 miles beyond Ana (Middle Euphrates).

Political, etc
Germany
: Berlin reports the despatch of ultimatum to Russia on subject of Finland.
Canada: Anti-conscription riots continue in Quebec. Troops fire on rioters.
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Western Front
Unternehmen Mars: Artois
: British 32nd Division recaptures Ayette south of river Scarpe.
Somme: British Fifth Army renamed Fourth.
Local fighting between Moreuil and Lassigny.
Generally fighting has died down.
U.S. agrees to brigade troops with British and French.
US C-in-C General Pershing with French troops: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...zosen.jpg?ssl=1
Miss Sylvia Hodkinson becomes the first Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) recruit.
The British Official Dispatches report James McCudden (57 victories) awarded Victoria Cross.
Canadian soldiers sleeping and writing letters in the trenches near Willerval: © IWM (CO 2533): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...501316106629122
French troops in rifle pits on the frontlines at Le Plessier: © IWM (Q 78097): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...788216109453312

Political, etc
Russia
: Siberia reported dominated by Bolsheviks, German and Austrian prisoners being armed.
United Kingdom: "Curfew" order comes into force.
Canada: Prime Minister intends to enforce Military Act on Quebec rioters. A report that yesterday’s clash the deaths of 5 people and several dozen injuries.
Poland: New Polish Cabinet formed by M. Jan Kanty Steczkowski.
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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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...863722125234176
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: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...uppen.jpg?ssl=1
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: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...848624933490688
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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: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...daten.jpg?ssl=1
Troops of the London Regiment (London Scottish) at a boxing tournament at Mont. St. Eloi: © IWM (Q 321): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...213521353601029
A British soldier next to a fallen comrade awaiting burial near Domart, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...228620084588546

Naval and Overseas Operations
English Channe
l: British destroyer HMS Bittern sunk with all hands in collision: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...471557229973505
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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...183320225648640
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: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...501739479248897
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George returns from visit to the front.
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Western Front
Unternehmen Mars: Battle of the Ancre 1918
brings to an end the First Battles of the Somme 1918 or the German Kaiserschlacht: both Operation Michael, and the follow-on Operation Mars (see March 21st). Germans again attack from Somme to beyond Bucquoy. Ancre front stabilized by 4th Australian Division (1,233 casualties) after 50th Prussian Reserve Division (c.1,600 casualties) gains 1,500 yards; British take 200 prisoners in counter-attack near Hebuterne.
German troops fail to capture the commune of Villers-Bretonneux, France from Allied troops. German forces resting in the Somme battlefields: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...592410504482816
French attack north of Montdidier and near Noyon.
LUDENDORFF DECIDES ‘TO ABANDON THE ATTACK ON AMIENS FOR GOOD … The enemy resistance was beyond our powers’ (War Memoirs). 13 German division are left in awkward Avre salient and Western Front 26 miles longer.
German troops cross the Maas-Aisne Canal over a bridge destroyed by the Allies: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...kanal.jpg?ssl=1
German flamethrowers in action on the Western Front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...562343854362624

Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: Battle of Rautu
ends with Whites sealing Karelian frontier.
Ukraine: Germans occupy Kharkov.
Siberia: Japanese marines land at Vladivostok, followed by a British detachment “to protect foreign nationals“ (until April 25),

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique
: Sir J. Van Deventer's despatch on East Africa published.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia
: Armenians leave Sarikamish night April 5-6 after Turks take a village to north; Van retaken by the Turks.

Political, etc
Russia
: Lenin threatens Japan with war on April 8.
Ireland: 51st Meeting of Irish Convention adopts draft report. Convention adjourns sine die.
United States: German immigrant Robert Prager lynched as suspected ‘spy’ (Collinsville, Illinois), countless other non-lethal incidents. Wilson discusses with cabinet on April 6 but does not publicly deplore mob spirit till July 26. Prager buried on April 10, Germany tries to pay funeral expenses, 12 tried for crime from May 13 but acquitted. War Finance Corp created with $500 billions.
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Interesting about Robert Prager being lynched as suspected spy in Collinsville, Illinois. Been through Collinsville many times but never knew of this story. Once again, it's the details that really brings the story to life, isn't it?
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DB, check out the notes in the "Political, etc." section today:

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht
: Severe fighting in Aveluy Wood (Albert), near Hebuterne, in Luce Valley, north and south of Montdidier, and in Oise region. Artillery duels until April 7.
British Whippet tank moving through the mud near Albert, France: © IWM (Q 11497): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...895519151763458
Strong German attacks near Beaumont (Meuse).
Reims heavily bombarded. Six divisions of Boehn’s Seventh Army drive French Sixth Army from bridgehead north of river Ailette until April 9 taking 2,300 PoWs.
French, British, and American army and navy officers exchange greetings during a military parade in St. Nazaire: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...925741892898816
British artillerymen resting near Boues: © IWM (Q 10863): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...955919184650242
U.S. soldiers in Maron, France boarding trains to head towards the front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...227704945639424

Eastern Front
Finish Civil Wa
r: Tampere falls with 11,000 PoWs and 30 guns to Mannerheim who makes his 3 corps commanders major-generals. The destroyed streets of Tampere, Finland: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...197503121485824
Siberia: Disorders in Vladivostok are confirmed.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine
: The Zionist Commission for Palestine parading through the streets of Tel Aviv, a Jewish suburb of Jaffa: © IWM (Q 13186): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...257912566300678
Armenia: Turks occupy Ardahan.

Political, etc
United Kingdom
: The King sends greetings to U.S.A. on anniversary of entrance into the war.
United States: President Wilson speaks at Baltimore on war aims and resolves.
Third Liberty Loan drive for $3 billions begins, passes $4.1 billions by May 18. This women’s choir in New York supports the ‘American Loans for Freedom’: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...or-NY.jpg?ssl=1
Memorial to Private James Gresham (first AEF killed) laid at Evansville, Indiana.
A photograph of German coal miner Robert Prager, lynched by an American mob due to anti-German xenophobia: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...835108138274816
Tonga: (Listed for yesterday): Sālote Tupou III becomes the first Queen of the Kingdom of Tonga: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...865311547904000
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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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...333412244586496

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: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...nland.jpg?ssl=1
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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...318308451127296
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.
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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht
: Oise river French are forced back in Forest of Coucy, and Coucy le Chateau and Landricourt are lost. 2000 French prisoners have been taken in the past few days.
German attempts in districts of Reims, Verdun and Vosges.
Heavy German bombardment on whole British front, up to Armentieres, including 40,000 mustard shells on Armientieres. Portuguese battalion refuses to march to trenches (relief due evening April 9).
British troops blinded by gas await medical treatment and evacuation to the rear: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...d-gas.jpg?ssl=1
First Renault FT-17 tank battalion formed with 72 tanks.
Australian soldiers watch as French Army cooks work at Villers-Bretonneux: © IWM (Q 10865): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...622793958330369
American troops at a heavy artillery repair shop in St. Nazaire, France: © IWM (Q 108348): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...637900176285697
French and Australian soldiers pose together at Villers-Bretonneux: © IWM (Q 10868): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...683192787423233
Women of the Salvation Army serving donuts and coffee to American soldiers at Ansonville, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...985188681633792

Eastern Front
Ukraine
: Kharkov captured by German forces.

Southern Front
A view of the German zeppelin L-59, destroyed yesterday: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...652997724463107

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique
: Rosecol reconnaissance company skirmish east of Medo (84 miles from coast). Gambia Company returns home to Bathurst.


Political, etc
Germany
: Germany answering Russian protests demands disarmament of Russian Fleet.
France: M. Georges Clemenceau discloses contents of Emperor of Austria's letter.
Canada: Sir Sam Hughes speaks on conditions in Quebec.
Turkey: Constantinople housing rents fixed at 50% of March 1, 1916 level for war plus 6 months, but law largely dead letter.
Italy: “Conference of Nationalities oppressed by Austria” opens.
Romania: Bessarabian Council of Land vote for autonomous union with Romania.
United States: National War Labor Board appointed.
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Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette
, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive begins (see 29th) with the Battle of Éstaires (9th/11th). Ludendorff aims to drive back British and Belgians west of Dunkirk and open road to Calais. After 4 1/2 hour hurricane shelling 14 German Sixth Army divisions attack from 0845 hours on 10-mile front; 4 divisors overwhelm Portuguese 2nd Division (6,000 PoWs) and drive a 3 1/2-mile deep wedge, steadily widened, into BEF front. This heavy bombardment from La Bassee Canal to Armentieres, followed by strong attacks, force British and Portuguese back to Lys river at Estaires. “Fine” stand by Guards Division (55th Division) holds southern wing taking 750 PoWs and 100 MGs. Neuve Chapelle taken by German forces.
German gas bombardment of Lys (until April 27) sector: 1 million rounds (2,000t) mustard gas, phosgene and diphenylchlorarsine; 8,424 gassed (30 deaths).
Portuguese troops in their trenches before the German attack: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ungen.jpg?ssl=1
Hangard lost and retaken by French; between it and Noyon all German attempts repulsed.
Fog delays Flanders flying in Ludendorff Lys offensive till late pm (until April 11). 492 German aircraft (including 14 Jastas) vs 38 RAF squadrons, RAF lose 10 planes and claim German 15.
British mounted military police on a muddy road near Domart: © IWM (Q 10874): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...015385581670400
Troops of various Highland regiments at a casualty clearing station in Frevent: © IWM (Q 332): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...045579256233985
Women of the Salvation Army serving pastries for American troops at Ansonville, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...318642040496128

Eastern Front
Ukraine
: Lavr Kornilov’s 6,000 Whites repel Red attack on their river Kuban crossing place, and storm ridge west of Ekaterinodar (April 10), but Avtonomov’s 20,000+ Reds in town resist fiercely (until April 12).

Naval and Overseas Operations
German torpedo boats bombard Belgian coast.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Action of Berukin
(until April 11): British 75th Division (plus 162 guns) attacks in Judean foothills vs Turkish 16th and 46th divisions (over 85 guns), gains only 2,500 yards. Turks capture operations order on first day and 2 German battalions strike back. (EEF 1,498 casualties; Turks c.700)
Arabia: Arabs claim 800 miles of Red Sea coast, and to have put 40,000 Turks out of action since declaration of independence.
Armenia: Turks reported before Batum and marching on Kars.

Political, etc
Germany
: Count Wilhelm von Mirbach appointed German Ambassador at Moscow (see July 6th).
France: Georges Clemenceau discloses Emperor Charles’ 31 March 1917 peace letter to Prince Sixtus. Ottokar Czernin calls it a lie. Stephan Burian diary ‘Now we really are tied to the fate of Germany whether we want it or not’.
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George introduces Man-Power Bill, reviews battle situation, and refers to Irish affairs.
Romania: National Council of the Moldavian Republic (Bessarabia) pass Act of Union with Rumania, with stipulation for local autonomy (see 16th, December 23rd, 1917, and December 10th, 1918).
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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Unternehmung Georgette
, known in the west as Battles of the Lys or the German Lys Offensive: Battle of Éstaires (9th/11th): Battle of Messines 1918 (10th/11th): Messines taken by German forces (see June 14th, 1917 and September 28th, 1918). North of Armentieres, line forced back to Wytschaete, Messines Ridge and Ploegsteert; Armentieres evacuated with practically no loss, after 8 German Fourth Army divisions attack on 6-mile front.
Germans reach left bank of Lys river. From Estaires south to Givenchy position is maintained.
Assault of German infantry in the West: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...esten.jpg?ssl=1
British troops trying to tow a Leyland lorry that went over the steep side of the road: © IWM (Q 10886): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...379046456229890
German prisoners captured by the British near Bethune, France: © IWM (Q 10883): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...394145531318272

Eastern Front
Ukraine
: Germans take Kherson and Belgorod, northeast of Kharkov. Don Cossack Rising under Esaul Fetisov.
Siberia: Bolsheviki at Vladivostok reported to have fired on Japanese troops.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Monrovia (Liberia) bombarded by a German submarine (see August 4th, 1917), wireless station destroyed, 4 people killed.
Adriatic: 8 Franco-Italian destroyers, escorting 3 Italian battleships, move from Brindisi to Taranto, lose 2 of their number in night collisions.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Action of Berukin
(until April 11): Turco-German troops attack British position in coastal sector and after preliminary success are driven back, and British line is slightly advanced.

Political, etc
Germany
: Settlement Treaty between Germany and Turkey ratified at Berlin (see January 11th, 1917).
Estonia: Estonian Riga assembly refuses union with Germany but Kaiser consents on April 21.
United Kingdom: Third Military Service act passed in British Parliament. Military age limit raised to 50, and Conscription extended to Ireland (see 18th, and June 8th 1916).
Canada: Bill appropriating £100,000,000 for war expenditure introduced.
Italy: Conference of Oppressed Nationalities ends. Agreement reached between Italy and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs ("Pact of Rome").
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