Western Front
Germany: Royal Flying Corps night bombers destroy 100-yard-long hangar at Frescaty airfield near Metz (night February 26-27).
Western Front, General: 2nd Balloon Coy first US Air Service unit to give direct support to US front-line troops.
A French Eclaireur Zodiac Class airship near Boulogne-sur-Mer: © IWM (Q 58519):
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Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Soviet delegates return. Arrival of the Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk:
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Finish Civil War: Major-General Count Gustav von der Goltz put in command of 12th Landwehr or Baltic Division for projected German Finland intervention.
Southern Front
Austro-Hungarian Gotha bombers fly damaging 8-hour raid over Venice (night February 26-27).
Naval and Overseas Operations
British hospital ship
Glenart Castle sunk by submarine
UC-56 (commander Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Kiesewetter) in the Bristol Channel (see March 1st, 1917). Two sources claim 162 lives lost, another says “only” 95 were killed.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Patrols reach Rujm el Bahr (at northern end of Dead Sea, two miles east of mouth of Jordan).
Political, etc
Russia: Foreign ambassadors in Petrograd prepare to leave the city as the German offensive continues to advance towards the Soviet capital.
Ireland: “Lawlessness” in Ireland; additional troops sent to aid police. British government announces it has declared martial law in Country Clare.
China: Spectator stands at the Happy Valley racecourse in Hong Kong collapses, resulting in a fire that kills around 600 people. It is the worst fire accident in Hong Kong's history:
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