Western Front
At Verdun, French troops attack German positions and capture trenches north of Caurieres Wood.
British progress on Ancre front towards Bapaume Ridge.
Eastern Front
Russia: Romanian people of Austro-Hungarian PoWs in Darnitsa Camp near Kiev sign oath to fight Dual Monarchy. [That is, Austria-Hungary]
Southern Front
Sharp fighting in the Dolomites.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Russians occupy Kangavar, south of Hamadan.
Palestine: Turks abandon strong position west of Shalal (Sinai Peninsula): Kress evacuates Wadi Sheikh Nuran for Gaza-Beersheba line.
Mesopotamia: Maude resumes advance; 13th Hussars’ charge foiled by second trench line.
Naval and Overseas Operations
According to a British report, 123 British vessels were sunk by the Germans in February, while 9,463 ships were able to safely enter port.
Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Government reply to USA backs U-boat war.
A second report that Marshal Arz von Straussenburg is appointed the new Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army:
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Russia: Food riots in Petrograd continue.
Lord Milner returns from Petrograd saying ‘
it is quite wrong to suppose that in Russia there is any controversy about the waging of the war’.
United States: Wilson’s second term inaugural address ‘
We stand fast on an armed neutrality.’
London Ambassador Page cables to US ‘
France and England must have … enough credit in the US to prevent collapse of world trade’.
12 pacifist US Senators successfully filibuster a bill that would have armed merchant ships to protect them from German submarines.
“
The Poor Little Rich Girl,” starring Mary Pickford and directed by Maurice Tourneur, is released:
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