Western Front
Somme: Germans retreat from Serre salient, evacuating Serre, Miraumont, Petit Miraumont, Pys and Warlencourt.
Southern Front
French machine gunners in a foxhole near Koritza (Korçë), Albania:
http://imgur.com/GNuqSBl
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Turks abandon Kut, retreat west on Baghdad losing 1,730 PoWs and 4 guns but British Cavalry Division fails to pursue vigorously although 2 armoured cars do damage on February 25. Royal Navy gunboat
Mantis rehoists Union flag at Kut.
Indian Lancers marching through the streets of Kut, Mesopotamia (Iraq):
http://imgur.com/ZhWU57B* © IWM (Q 25223)
Persia: Turkish 6th Division falls back from Hamadan to Kermanshah, 2nd Division follows on February 26.
Political, etc.
Russia: Russian government opens a special committee to discuss the future status of Poland.
France: French Chamber of Deputies approves a resolution to recall some farmers serving at the front in order to boost food production.
United Kingdom: Lord Arthur Balfour writes that more than 1.2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire have been killed or deported.
Lloyd George states restrictive measures are needed to ration food in Britain, such as cutting beer & liquor production by two-thirds.
United States: US London Ambassador Page, having received Zimmermann Telegram from Balfour cables Wilson with news, received with ‘much indignation’ but awaits Secretary of State’s return.
U.S. War Department proposes a bill that would increase the Army size to 3,296,023 men, which will cost $472,258,746.
Spain: Mr. Gerard is received at Madrid by the King of Spain.
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