Western Front
Somme: British advance east of Gommecourt (until March 5).
Aisne: German 51st Reserve Division raid south of Ripont and captures Nivelle’s memo on general offensive from December 16, 1916.
Eastern Front
Western Russia: Russian gas attacks north of Lake Naroch near Krevo (March 4).
Pripet: German 1st Landwehr Division (with 400 field guns and mortars support) attack west of Lutsk and nets 9,000 PoWs; 15 guns; 200 MGs and mortars.
Southern Front
Fierce fighting near Monastir; Italian troops in action.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Captain Newcombe and Arabs wreck Hejaz Railway a Dar-el-Hamra Station. During these days Cairo intercepts Djemal Pasha cable to Medina indicating evacuation plan, Lawrence urges Felsal to act.
Political, etc.
Germany: Zimmermann on submarine warfare: “We regret that neutrals [nations] have to suffer by it, but we cannot help it.”
Russia: The first major protest of the February Revolution occurred on 3 March [18 February in the Julian calendar, still in use in Russia at the time] 1917 as workers of Putilov (later called Kirov Plant), Petrograd's largest industrial plant, announced a strike to demonstrate against the government. Strikes continued on the following days. Due to heavy snowstorms, tens of thousands of freight cars were stuck on the tracks, with the bread and fuel. On 7 March [22 February O.S], the Tsar left for the front. http://imgur.com/5kWLpWw
United Kingdom: British Major-General Frederick B. Maurice predicts that there will be another winter of war, as the German Army is still capable.
U.S. Ambassador Page and Premier Lloyd George confer to discuss the possible entrance of the U.S. into the war.
British government reports 933,000 women are now occupying jobs once held by men called to the front or other war-related services.
Turkey: Ottoman Empire borrows $48 million from Austria-Hungary, on condition that it be used to buy Austro-Hungarian goods.
Belgium: Council of Flanders group in Germany (sees Kaiser) to petition independence.
United States: [yesterday ?] Jones-Shafroth Act is signed by President Wilson, which grants anyone born in Puerto Rico citizenship & creates the Puerto Rican Senate.
Special Preparedness Fund and first Excess Profits Acts passed.
President Wilson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
President Wilson and the First Lady riding a carriage through the streets of D.C.:
http://imgur.com/6SK19Hq
Scandinavia: Scandinavian liners resume service to the United States, but will not carry passengers due to the threat of U-boats.