Diary March 3, 1917

03-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

German assault detachment wearing full body armour.

World War One Diary for Saturday, March 3, 1917:

Western Front

Somme: British advance east of Gommecourt (until March 5).
Aisne: German 51st Reserve Division raid south of Ripont and captures Nivelle’s memo on general offensive from December 16, 1916.

Eastern Front

Western Russia: Russian gas attacks north of Lake Naroch near Krevo (March 4).
Pripet: German 1st Landwehr Division (with 400 field guns and mortars support) attack west of Lutsk and nets 9,000 PoWs; 15
guns; 200 MGs and mortars.

Middle East

Arabia: Captain Newcombe and Arabs wreck Hejaz Railway at Dar-el-Hamra Station. During these days Cairo intercepts Djemal Pasha cable to Medina indicating evacuation plan, Lawrence urges Felsal to act.

Politics

Japan and Mexico: Governments deny receiving Zimmermann proposals.

Occupied Territories

Belgium: Council of Flanders group in Germany (sees Kaiser) to petition independence.

Neutrals

USA: Special Preparedness Fund and first Excess Profits Acts passed.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.