A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

H.M.S. Coquette (destroyer) and the British torpedo boat No. 11 are sunk by mines off the east coast of England.

Mar. 8 (Wed.)

Heavy fighting at Verdun: the French regain ground.

Mesopotamia:—The second attempt to relieve Kut fails, the British being repulsed at Es Sinn.

The Caucasus:—The Russians advance towards Trebizond.

A French air-raid on Metz.

Mar. 9 (Thurs.)

Mesopotamia:—The British relieving force falls back from Es Sinn.

H.M.S. Fauvette (armed boarding-steamer) is sunk by a mine off the east coast of England.