Western Front
Artois: BEF 2,000-gun Arras barrage begins including gas shells, wreaks great destruction on 12-mile front. The crew of a British 12-inch howitzer prepares to open fire at the beginning of the Battle of Arras:
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Aisne: German raiding party captures copy of division order at Mt Sapigneul giving movements of 3 corps on right of French Fifth Army. Nivelle told on April 7.
Amidst violent snow squalls, French soldiers reach the outskirts of St. Quentin. 4 other villages are taken. (Another source says only three).
British capture Metz-en-Couture (towards Cambrai).
Eastern Front
German troops use 13 waves of chlorine gas against Russian troops and force them to retreat across the Stokhid River.
Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy decides to convoy Scandinavian ships carrying imported wood pulp.
Belgian relief ship,
Trevier, torpedoed off Scheveningen.
Western Mediterranean: British liner
City of Paris (122 lives lost) sunk by
UC 35 south off Nice.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Khanaqin (North-East of Baghdad) again occupied by Russian forces.
Political, etc
United Kingdom: Speeches of General Robertson and Admiral Jellicoe to Trade Unions re: sacrifice required from nation, after the Barrow strike repressed.
British Food Order for hotels, etc. British Flour Order. [ed note: I have no further details on these two orders, other than that they are rationing measures.]
United States: Former President Theodore Roosevelt praises President Wilson’s war message and states he hopes to lead troops again.
Senate votes war resolution 82-6.
Switzerland: Vladimir Lenin and Zürich councillor Platten negotiate with German Berne Ambassador Romberg.