March 25, 1918

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1916, 1918, Amman, Bapaume, Battle of the Somme, communications, Es Salt, First Battle of Bapaume, First Transjordan attack on Amman, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hejaz, Noyon, Oise, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Peronne, prisoners of war, railway, Somme, Turkey, weapons

Heavy fighting between Péronne and Bapaume; enemy, pressing on over Somme battleground, reach, near Maricourt, their original line of July, 1916; 45,000 prisoners and over 600 guns claimed to date; Noyon in the Oise Valley evacuated by the French, who hold the left bank of the Oise. British take Es Salt and progress towards the Hedjaz Railway at Amman.

March 24, 1918

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1918, Bapaume, Chauny, Edmund Allenby, First Battle of Bapaume, First Transjordan attack on Amman, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guiscard, Ham, Luneville, Nesle, occupation, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Peronne, prisoners of war, Somme, Tortille, Turkey, weapons

Fall of Péronne following violent attacks against line of the Tortille; fall of Ham, and the Somme crossed between these two points, but enemy driven back again; British covering Bapaume after heavily repulsing enemy are driven back; fall of Bapaume and of Nesle, Guiscard, and Chauny; 30,000 prisoners and 600 guns claimed to date. German attack on French lines east of Lunéville defeated. Allenby 11 miles east of the Jordan approaching Es Salt.

April 15, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Battle of Arras, Cambrai, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Lagnicourt, Ottoman Empire, peace, Queant, Russia, St Quentin, trenches, Turkey, Villeret

German counter-attack astride the Bapaume-Cambrai road before Quéant fails, except at Lagnicourt, where they gain a brief entry into the British trenches. Villeret, north-west of St. Quentin, taken. Turks, retreating before General Maude, reach Jebel Hamrin, whence they started on April 9. Austrian peace move; a statement amounting to an offer of a separate peace with Russia on the basis of old frontiers, made.

April 9, 1917

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1917, Arras, Athies, Bapaume, Battle of Arras, Battle of Vimy Ridge, Belad, Boursies, Brazil, Cambrai, Canada, Deli Abbas, Deniecourt, Feuchy, First Battle of the Scarpe, France, Frederick Stanley Maude, Fresnoy-le-Petit, Germany, Great Britain, Harbe, Havrincourt, Hermies, Iraq, Jebel Hamrin, Le Verguier, Lens, Ottoman Empire, Pontru, prisoners of war, Samarrah Offensive, St Quentin, Thelus, Turkey, Vimy Ridge

Great British Attack from Lens to Arras. – Advance on a 12-mile front to a depth of 3,000 yards; Feuchy, Athies, Thélus, and the Vimy Ridge carried, and nearly 6,000 prisoners taken by noon. Boursies, Hermies and Deniecourt carried on the Bapaume-Cambrai road, and Havrincourt Wood penetrated. Fresnoy-le-Petit, Pontru, and Le Verguier north of St. Quentin, taken. General Maude occupies Harbe, four miles north of Belad. Turks advance from Jebel Hamrin, lured on by feigned British retreat from Deli Abbas. Brazil breaks off relations with Germany.

April 2, 1917

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1917, American President, Arras, Bapaume, Croisilles, Diyala, Doignies, France, Francilly-Selency, Germany, Great Britain, Holnon, Imperial German Navy, Iran, Iraq, Khanikin, merchant navy, Operation Alberich, Ottoman Empire, Persia, Russia, Selency, sinking, SS Aztec, St Quentin, submarine, Turkey, United States of America, Woodrow Wilson

British within two miles of St. Quentin; Francilly-Selency, Selency, and Holnon taken. Progress between Bapaume and Arras on a 10-mile front; Doignies and Croisilles taken. British and Russians in contact on the Diala River, south-west of Khanikin. President Wilson’s address to Congress; he asks for declaration that a state of war exists. American armed liner Aztec torpedoed off the French coast.

April 1, 1917

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1917, Ailette, Bapaume, British Empire, communications, East Africa, Epehy, France, General Baratov, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Iran, Kilimanjaro, Laon, Operation Alberich, Ottoman Empire, Paitak Pass, Peizieres, Peronne, Persia, prisoners of war, Qasr-i-Shirin, railway, Savy, St Quentin, Tanzania, Turkey

British advance towards St. Quentin continues; Savy, four miles from the town, taken and Epéhy and Peizières on the Bapaume-Peronne railway; 1,239 prisoners taken during March, a total of 4,600 from beginning of year. French progress between the Ailette and the Laon road, General Baratoff through the Paitak Pass and 18 miles from Kasr-i-Shirin. War Office announces capture of small mounted party of enemy in East Africa near Lake Eyassi, 140 miles west of Kilimanjaro.

March 29, 1917

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1917, Bapaume, finance, France, Germany, Great Britain, Neuville-Bourjonval, Reichstag

British take Neuville Bourjonval, seven miles south-east of Bapaume. Socialist party in the German Reichstag vote against the Government on the emergency Budget; the whole debate believed to be pre-arranged.

March 28, 1917

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1917, Avocourt, Bapaume, Beaumetz, Cambrai, Champagne, Cote 301, Croisilles, France, Germany, Great Britain, Verdun

British advance on the Bapaume-Cambrai road beyond Beaumetz; they gain positions near Croisilles. Germans gain some ground west of Maisons de Champagne. French recover trenches lost at Avocourt Wood and Hill 301, Verdun.

March 26, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Baranovichi, Battle of Lagnicourt, Battle of Monastir, Belarus, Bitola, Bulgaria, Coucy, Folembray, France, Germany, Gorizia, Great Britain, Italy, Lagnicourt, Monastir, prisoners of war, Republic of Macedonia, Russia, Serbia, Soissons, trenches, Vregny

Further French progress in the Lower Coucy Forest; Coucy-le-Chateau and Folembray taken; progress north of Soissons at Vregny. British take Lagnicourt, six miles north-east of Bapaume. Russians yield ground at Baranovitchi. Slight Austrian progress south of Gorizia. French take more trenches west of Monastir; total prisoners, 2,000.

March 23, 1917

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1917, Arras, Austria-Hungary, Bapaume, Cambrai, Canal de Saint-Quentin, Crozat Canal, Dvinsk, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hindenburg Line, Imperial German Navy, La Fere, merchant shipping, Mikhail Alekseyev, Oise, Riga, Romania, Russia, sinking, SMS Mowe, St Quentin

French defeat the Germans between St. Quentin and La Fère; Germans flood the Oise Valley; La Fère under water; further French advance on the Crozat Canal. Fighting on the British front between Arras and the Bapaume-Cambrai road. General Alexeieff reports great German concentration on Riga-Dvinsk front. Rumanians lose positions south of the Trotus Valley. Germans announce return of raider Möwe to port, and names of nine more victims.