Western Front
British capture Irles (on the Ancre); 292 prisoners.
Eastern Front
Romanians and Russians counter-attack to attempt to regain Magyaros Ridge (Moldavia) lost on 8 March.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy submarine
G13 sinks
UC-43 off Shetlands with loss of all hands. HMS ‘
G 13’ was part of the 10th Submarine Fleet and was mainly used for sub hunting in the North Sea.
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Eastern Atlantic: Epic action between NZ Shipping Co SS
Otaki (4.7-inch gun) (A Bisset Smith, posthumous Victory Cross) and German raider
Möwe (15 casualties), 350 miles east of Azores.
Otaki sinks after c.30 hits but hits
Möwe 7 times.
Western Mediterranean: In tragic error troopship-escorting sloop HMS
Cyclamen rams and sinks Italian submarine
Guglielmotti (14 die) off Capraia Island.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: British bridge river Diyala and turn Turk west flank 3 miles from Baghdad. Khalil Pasha grudgingly lets subordinates evacuate city and leaves by train. 9,500 Turks with 48 guns retreat before 45,343 British with 174 guns; German radio station blown up.
Political, etc
Russia: Martial law declared in Petrograd as food riots and protests turn into a general strike (until March 19). The Tsar took action to address the riots on 25 February (O.S.) by wiring garrison commander General Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov, an inexperienced and extremely indecisive commander of the Petrograd military district, to disperse the crowds with rifle fire and to suppress the "impermissible" rioting by force. There were disturbances on on the Nevsky Prospect during the day and in the late afternoon four people were killed. Petrograd Soviet elected.
Turkey: Talaat Pasha obtains Chamber 3.5 million Turkish Pounds food board credit, promises radical solutions.
Romania: Romanian royal family and Romanian soldiers attending a service in Iasi:
http://imgur.com/RnNYyzP © IWM (Q 76461)
http://imgur.com/RnNYyzP