17.—Bapaume falls to British. Roye and Lassigny occupied by French.

18.—Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated by Germans, who retire on an 85-mile front.

18.—City of Memphis, Illinois, and Vigilancia, American ships, torpedoed.

19.—Alexander Ribot becomes French premier, succeeding Briand.

21.—Healdton, American ship, bound from Philadelphia to Rotterdam, sunk without warning; 21 men lost.

26-31.—British advance on Cambrai.

April

1.—Aztec, American armed ship, sunk in submarine zone.

5.—Missourian, American steamer, sunk in Mediterranean.

6.—United States declares war on Germany.