Western Front
Billy Bishop gains first of credited 72 victories. Only one of 6 Sopwith two-seater (No 70 Squadron) survive reconnaissance to Valenciennes (2 lost before on March 24).
Heavy fighting develops along the Western Front, as French and British troops approach the town of St. Quentin.
A British officer watches demolition work by the Royal Engineers at the Somme River:
http://imgur.com/nM6ZXsb © IWM (Q 1928)
A delegation of Chinese students visit the Western Front at the town of Peronne:
http://imgur.com/SgY0tOF © IWM (Q 1923)
395 shells on Reims.
Eastern Front
Western Russia: German gas attack in Dvinsk area repulsed, but attack on March 26 southwest of Baranovichi gains east bank of river Shchara and 300 PoWs.
Naval and Overseas Operations
French take Ouijan (Morocco).
Dunkirk bombarded from sea.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Qasr-i-Shirin (Western Persia) again taken by Russian forces (see June 20th, 1916 and July 8th, 1917).
Battle of Jebel Hamrin: Having bridged two canals on March 24, Keary GOC 3rd Indian Divisions’s 4,600 men (1,165 casualties) with 26 guns repulsed by 5,650 Turks and 24 guns (Ali Ihsan’s XIII Corps from Persia who cross to Diyala West bank on March 29).
Political, etc
Russia: General Mikhail Alexeiev made C-in-C by Provisional Government (until June 4) instead of Grand Duke Nicholas, Tsar’s choice (arrived from Caucasus on March 23) .
Following the overthrow of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Death penalty abolished and medals except St George Cross. All Tsar’s property and income transferred to State.
France: French government protests German “acts of barbarism and devastation” in occupied-French territory.
United Kingdom: Commons votes £60 million war credit.
Italy: National Board for War Invalids authorized.
Belgium: U.S. Legation at Brussels removed to Le Havre; Belgian relief work to be undertaken by other neutrals.
United States: U.S. Navy Secretary Daniels announces censorship rules that would prevent the press from criticizing the administration’s policies.