Western Front
Considerable aerial activity; more American troops occupy portions of western battle front.
Lorraine: Count Felix Bothmer (ex-Eastern Front Suedarmee) in command of new German Nineteenth Army for duration of war.
A British observation balloon falling down in flames after being shot by German aircraft over Boyelles: © IWM (Q 11972): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...838933474521089
A British 12-inch howitzer mountain on a railway carriage near Arras: © IWM (Q 8466): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...110701422563330

Eastern Front
Ukraine: The Bolshevik uprising in Kiev is put down, but Soviet Russian forces are approaching the Ukrainian capital.
General Alexei Kaledin reported to have relinquished leadership of Cossacks to General Mikhail Alexeiev. General Alexeiev with Don Cossacks moves towards Moscow against the Bolshevik forces (see 13th), the ‘Ice March’.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: Mtarika occupied by British troops.

Political, etc
France: Bolo Pasha trial commences; death sentence (February 14, executed at Vincennes April 17), had received German funds to corrupt press.
The poster calls on French civilians and soldiers to pay attention to enemy agents and spies: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...lence.jpg?ssl=1
United Kingdom: British Government make declaration to King of the Hejaz reaffirming their pledges as to freeing the Arab peoples (see October 24th, 1915, December 15th, 1916, December 17th, 1917, and January 4th, 1918).
Canada: Canadian government orders the suspension of factories in eastern Canada on February 9, 10, and 11 to conserve fuel.
United States: German Aliens registration week.

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Western Front
French airmen bomb Saarbrucken junction.
Western Front: Lieutenant Thompson of 103rd Aero Squadron (mainly Lafayette Escadrille veterans) first American fighter pilot serving in US forces to score in air combat. AEF has 225 aircraft (9 squadrons) on February 1.
An American fighter squadron, equipped with British S.E.5a.: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-SE5a.jpg?ssl=1

Southern Front
Venice Mestre, and Treviso are bombed by Austro-Hungarian and German bombers for a second day in a row.

Naval and Overseas Operations
British S.S. Tuscania carrying United States troops, sunk by submarine off Irish coast, 166 US soldiers, 44 crew lost. (The only loss sustained by U.S. transports when under British naval escort).
SS Tuscania, sunk by the German submarine UB-77: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...473106950352897

Political, etc
Germany: Representatives from the Central Powers governments meet in Berlin to discuss food shortages and the ongoing peace negotiations with Russia and Ukraine.
Russia: First Duma of Independent Siberian Republic opens.
France: 3,000 people in Roanne (Loire Department) protest against bread shortage, burn cotton magnate’s house, looting (until February 6) but riots ends by February 26.
United Kingdom: Food Ministry offers amnesty to food hoarders.
Andrew Bonar Law says that German U-Boats have killed 14,120 British civilians over the course of the war.
United States: Captain Franz Rintelen and 10 other Germans fined and imprisoned for trying to sink British SS Kirk Oswald. Committee on Public Information appeals to public not to shoot US Signal Corps carrier pigeons.
American soldiers parading down 5th Avenue in New York before sailing to Europe: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...231510031859712

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Western Front
First US Royal Flying Corps squadron (No 17) arrives (left Texas December 19, 1917), 9 more follow until March.
Reprisals threatened if British leaflet-scattering airmen improperly treated.
Bulgarian soldiers on the Western Front after being transferred from the East: © IWM (Q 87426): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...580056698548227

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Peace negotiations between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk is in a deadlock over the status of Ukraine. Ukraine is also negotiating separately with the Central Powers.

Political, etc
Russia: German language Red broadcast from Tsarkoe Selo calls for military revolt and Kaiser’s murder.
Bolshevist campaign against Orthodox Church rousing opposition.
France: This French poster calls for women’s suffrage. Through the increased involvement of women in the world of work during the war, they gained the right to vote in Britain in 1918, while in France they had to wait until 1945: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...recht.jpg?ssl=1
United Kingdom: Electoral Reform Act passed, 6 million WOMEN OVER 30 RECEIVE VOTE, Commons enlarged by 37 members to 707
Romania: German Government send ultimatum to Romania demanding peace negotiations within four days (see 25th).
M. Ion Bratianu, Romanian Premier, resigns (appointed January 14th, 1914) (see 9th). General Alexandru Averescu forms new Cabinet on February 9.
United States: President Wilson asks for new powers to reorganize the Government and war machine.

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British soldiers smoking and sharing jokes in the trenches at Cambrin: © IWM (Q 8458): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...957551226642433
British troops carry out successful raids against German lines east of Armentieres and at Queant, France, taking several German prisoners.
British officers wading through a communication trench that has been muddied by thawing snow at Essigny, France: © IWM (Q 10681): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...223127656271872

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Kaiser orders Richard von Kühlmann to end talks and demand Baltic States.
Finish Civil War: (until May 15): Civil war in Finland still raging.

Southern Front
Salonika: King Alexander visits British including Struma front on February 9.
Italian Front: King Albert of the Belgians visits until February 9, ‘I thought that the Italian Army was more disciplined than ours’.
(Listed for yesterday): American Red Cross distributing gifts to Italian soldiers in the trenches along the Piave River: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...836739609874432

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: (Listed for yesterday): Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...927350669172737 known for works such as the “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...927350669172737 , passed away.
France: Decree creates Czech Army. A group of Czechoslovak soldiers in French uniforms on the Western Front. They were recruited from captured or deserted Austro-Hungarian soldiers: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...front.jpg?ssl=1
United Kingdom: Britain makes a call for Jews holding British or other Allied citizenship to serve in the British Army to fight against the Ottomans in Palestine.
Romania: British Foreign Office cables to Jassy urging no separate Romanian peace.
C-in-C Alexandru Averescu promises Col Colin Ballard to try and stop munitions going to Central Powers.
United States: Former President Roosevelt undergoes surgery for fistula and abscesses in his ears, but contracts an infection during the process.

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Western Front
General Luigi Cadorna succeeded by General Gaetano Giardino on Versailles Committee.
Repulse of Germans on Chemin des Dames.
Britain: London Air Defence Area has 200 aircraft, 323 searchlights, 249 anti-aircraft guns.
Germany: French bombers attack Saarbrücken.
A British officer and a kitten at his dug-out at Essigny, France: © IWM (Q 10679): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...298699237421056

Eastern Front
Finish Civil War: (until May 15): Mannerheim moves Headquarter inland to Seinajoki rail junction, first 5 Swedish officers join him on February 10.
The Czech Legion in Russia: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...egion.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: British destroyer Boxer sunk by collision in English Channel with SS St Patrick. 1 crewman is killed.
Irish Sea: Only 3 Q-ships now based at Queenstown.
Mediterranean: Revel memo detailing Italy’s weak maritime situation shocks Allies in Rome conference (until February 9) which concentrates on Otranto Barrage. British mobile concept approved. US Admiral Sims presents plan for Adriatic offensive involving 30,000 troops, 25,000 mines and 5 US battleships to seize Curzola Island and attack Cattaro. First Sea Lord Geddes goes on to tour Mediterranean bases, urging end to shipping delays (until February 17).

Political, etc
Russia: Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky slandered by Paris press to be receiving pay from German agents.
United States: R. M. McElroy, a history professor at Princeton, calls for the Frederick the Great statue in Washington DC to be melted down and made into bullets.

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Western Front
Somme: GHQ allows Gough (Fifth Army) to conduct fighting withdrawal before expected spring offensive.
French troops with a bomb thrower in a trench at La Ville-aux-Bois: © IWM (Q 70053): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...615890402996224

Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Peace signed at Brest-Litovsk between Bulgaria, Central Powers and Turkey and the Ukraine Rada; also supplementary Treaty between Central Powers and The Ukraine; borders of new Ukrainian State defined (see 1st and January 3rd). Treaty includes a provision of 1 million t food for Polish Kholm land.
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...918883794956290
Pavlo Skoropadsky, Hetman of the Ukraine, talks to the Kaiser: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...aiser.jpg?ssl=1
Ukraine: (Listed for yesterday): City of Kiev falls to the advancing Soviet Russian forces as the Ukrainian government retreats to Zhytomyr.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Embargo on Dutch commercial cables provisionally raised.
Economic Council sits in London.
Bertrand Russell is sentenced by a British court to 6 months in prison for opposing the U.S. entering the war on the Allied side.
Canada: Canada observes “heatless” days, where factories not deemed essential will be shut down for three days starting today.
Turkey: First Women’s Labour battalion (male officers initially) attached to First Army.
Romania: New Romanian Cabinet formed, with General Alexandru Averescu as Premier and Foreign Minister (see 6th, and March 12th).
United States: Disease spreads across U.S. Army and National Guard camps, with 117 soldiers dying of “pneumonia” in just one week.
American Museum of Natural History hosts a “Whale Steak Luncheon” to promote alternative food sources to combat food shortages and rises in price caused by the war: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...677290412363777

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