Western Front
Artois: ANZAC Corps and British 62nd Division (Fifth Army) repulse major German 4-division attack on Lagnicourt on 7-mile front.
British capture Villeret (north-west of St. Quentin).
In a British trench:
https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...raben.jpg?ssl=1
Naval and Overseas Operations
Eastern Mediterranean: British transports
Cameronian (22 lives lost) (another report says ‘around 200’; I suspect the lower figure is a typo) sunk despite 2-destroyer escort, by
U-33 (Gustav Siess) 150 miles east of Malta and Egypt-bound
Arcadian (279 lives lost) sunk off Milo, Aegean by
UC-74 (Wilhelm Marschall).
Cameronian:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...1022345/photo/1
Arcadian:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...8850944/photo/1
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turks driven back to Jebel Hamrin (tableland from Tigris to Persian hills).
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Austrian feelers for separate peace with Russian apparent.
Russia: Russian government accuses Germany of using Russian socialists and other radicals to cause disturbances inside the country.
United States: Appeal of President Wilson to American citizens re: war; more specifically, justifying the creation by executive order (two days before) creating the Committee on Public Information (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commi...lic_Information ), an agency created to disseminate the Wilson’s administration on the war. Said committee was, despite the protests of the chair, heavily involved in censorship & suppression of alternative views of the war.
Greece: Venizelist regime in Greek islands in force.
Brazil: 1,000 rioters burn c.300 German buildings in Porto Alegre (until April 17); 7,400 troops sent there and elsewhere.
Argentina: Riots occur in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a mob attack the German Legation and Consulate, as well as German newspapers.
Mexico: Mexican government announces it will maintain strict neutrality in the ongoing world war.