A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The Government of the U.S.A. is officially informed that Germany 'must abandon the limitations she has hitherto imposed upon herself in the employment of her fighting weapons at sea.'

Mesopotamia:—The British capture the last line but one of the Turkish trenches before Kut east of the Hai-Tigris junction.

Feb. 2 (Fri.)

The Food Controller, Lord Devonport, appeals to the British nation to economise in food as the only way to avoid compulsory rationing.

A British naval air-raid on Bruges harbour.

Feb. 3 (Sat.)

The Government of the U.S.A. breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany; Count Bernstorff is handed his passports; Mr. Gerrard is recalled from Berlin; interned German cruisers and Hamburg-Amerika liners are seized.

The United States s.s. Housatonic is sunk in daylight off the Scillies by a German submarine.

Mesopotamia:—The British capture three lines of Turkish trenches west of the Hai-Tigris junction.

Feb. 4 (Sun.)