Western Front
French recover trenches near Butte de Mesnil lost on 1 March.
Severe aerial fighting; 223 German machines claimed since 1 March.
North Sea: Floatplane clash; 2 Royal Naval Air Service planes attack 5 German planes (1 lost, 1 damaged, 1 observer killed).
Pitched battles were fought over the North Sea between these large, well armed Curtiss H-12 flying boats and Hansa-Brandenburg floatplane fighters:
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A salvage dump with discarded shell casings, petrol tins, etc. near Ypres: © IWM (Q 10717):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...587029299748865
Eastern Front
Reds occupy Ekaterinodar (Kuban Cossack capital).
The Czechoslovak Legion defeats German forces at Bakhmach, Ukraine, securing them passage to evacuate from the front through Siberia.
Southern Front
Italy: Royal Flying Corps No 42 Squadron leaves to rejoin BEF on Western Front.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British make small advance in Jordan valley.
Caucasus: Retreating Armenians on old Russian frontier. Turco-Transcaucasian Trebizond Conference opens.
Political, etc
Russia: Congress of Soviets at Moscow ratifies Best-Litovsk treaty by 704 votes to 261, officially ceding the Baltic, Belarus, and Ukraine to the Central Powers.
United Kingdom: Mr. Balfour, speaking in House of Commons, defends proposed Japanese intervention in Asiatic Russia.
Meeting of Supreme War Council in London, attended by Entente Premiers and Foreign Ministers.
Japan: Japanese industrialist Matsushita Kōnosuke founds an electric company (that will later be known as Panasonic).
Belgium: Gennaro Rubino, Italian anarchist who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate King Leopold II of Belgium, passed away in prison:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...868339595530240
United States: Henry J. Hardenbergh, American architect known for designing buildings such as the Plaza Hotel in New York, passed away:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...647418314100737