Western Front
In March Royal Flying Corps losses 120 aircraft. German fighters claim 60 Allied aircraft in February and March for loss of 7. [Take note of these figures: they’re about to get a lot worse].
Eight villages along the Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) fall to British troops. French forces also gain north of Soissons.

Naval and Overseas Operations
For March Allied shipping losses 556,775t or 310 ships (German official figures 564,497t or 281 Allied ships including 61,917t in Mediterranean). Of 1,200 British collier March sailings (convoyed) to France only 3 ships lost. 3 U-boats lost.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British and Russian troops meet up at the town of Qasr-e Shirin, Persia © IWM (Q 25197)
British occupy Deli Abbas (River Diala).

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: The Emperor of Austria, Karl Hapsburg, makes secret proposal, conveyed in a letter to prince Sixte of Bourbon, to the French President (M. Raymond Poincaré) to open conversations with a view to peace (see April 11th, 1918).
Germany: Army ration strength 7,630,456.
Social Democrats in the German Reichstag declare that a republic is inevitable, causing cries of “treason” in the chamber.
Russia: Pig iron production down 17.6% compared to first quarter of 1916.
Russian government offers Poland “freedom” and self-government and condemns German efforts to create a Polish state.
France: During March French order 150 Renault FT-17 light tanks. French government introduces a bill to provide 300 million francs for agricultural aid, especially in areas affected by the fighting.
French politician Denys Cochin declares France will “war to the bitter end” due to Germany’s destruction of occupied French areas.
United Kingdom: Only 9 weeks supply of wheat and grain in country. Now 300 War Pensions committees (68,269 widows pensions granted). First WAAC draft arrives in France (6,023 by March 12, 1918).
Order limiting output of beer in United Kingdom issued.
Italy: War costing £30 millions per month (£730 millions so far).
United States: Dunk, the first elephant to reside at the National Zoo in Washington DC, passed away: pic.twitter.com/U7xRdChOEf
U.S. Bureau of Mines conducts a census for engineers and scientists so they will not be sent to the front if the U.S. enters the war.
A “Patriotic Rally” in Philadelphia as the U.S. prepares to go to war: pic.twitter.com/s1GMDuACCp

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