Western Front
France: Canadian Prime Minister visits BEF, Haig and Nivelle (until March 12).
Champagne: French regain most of salient lost on February 15 (Butte de Mesnil-Maisons de Champagne); more gains in eastern sector on March 12.
Flanders: 5 raids on British trenches north of Wulverghem (Messines).
Slight British advance in Ancre valley.
Great air activity.
Eastern Front
Romanians lose three heights (late Russian positions) north-west of Ocna (Moldavia).
Germans “repulsed” near Mitau (Riga).
Southern Front
Several days' shelling of Monastir reported.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: British forces begin engaging Ottoman defenders on the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala River south of Baghdad, Mesopotamia (Iraq).
Russians on road from Hamadan rout Turks, who withdraw to Hajiabad.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Italy: Rear-Admiral G. Mortola First Inspector of Shipping Defence.
North Sea: Norwegian relief ship
Storstad torpedoed.
Political, etc.
Germany: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies, aged 79, pioneer of giant metal-framed rigid airships (civil and military) since 1891 and of giant LR biplane aircraft.
http://imgur.com/dHC9QGK
Prussian government blames the illegal use of ration cards for contributing to the lack of potatoes and bread in Germany.
Russia: The February Revolution begins in Petrograd (different calendar, remember). Demonstrations in Petrograd grow as people celebrating International Woman’s Day join the protests. Women, in particular, were passionate in showing their dissatisfaction with the implemented rationing system, and the female workers marched to nearby factories to recruit over 50,000 workers for strike. Both men and women flooded the streets of Petrograd, demanding an end to Russian food shortages, the end of World War I and the end of autocracy. By the following day 9th March [O.S. February 24], nearly 200,000 protesters filled the streets, demanding the replacement of the Tsar with a more progressive political leader. The protesting mob called for the war to end and for the Russian monarchy to be overthrown. By 10 March [O.S. 25 February] 1917, nearly all industrial enterprises in Petrograd were shut down by the uprising. Although all gatherings on the streets were absolutely forbidden some 250,000 people were on strike. The president of the Imperial Duma Rodzianko asked the chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikolai Golitsyn to resign; the minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolai Pokrovsky proposed the resignation of the whole government. There were disturbances on on the Nevsky Prospect during the day and in the late afternoon four people were killed.
France: Civil mobilisation report tabled in French Senate: civilians of both sexes, 17 to 60, included.
United Kingdom: Irish Nationalists in the House of Commons demand immediate Home Rule and call Premier Lloyd George a “turncoat.”
Interim report of Dardanelles Commission issued.
British Government accepts Nizam of Hyderabad's offer of £100,000 towards anti-submarine campaign.
United States: George W. Guthrie, U.S. ambassador to Japan and former mayor of Pittsburgh, dies in Tokyo while playing golf:
http://imgur.com/uDqGRXD
Wireless communication between U.S.A. and Germany suspended.
President Wilson decides to arm American ships against submarines.