A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

China breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

The Germans abandon the forward slopes of the Bapaume Ridge; the British capture Loupart Wood and Grévillers.

Mesopotamia:—The British are thirty miles beyond Baghdad.

Persia:—The Russians again capture Kermanshah (see July 2, 1916).

Mar. 14 (Wed.)

The constitution of the Russian Provisional Government is announced: Prince Lvoff is Premier.

Mar. 15 (Thur.)

The Russian Provisional Government demands the abdication of the Tsar. The Tsar abdicates for himself and the Tsarevitch, and names his brother, the Grand Duke Michael, as Regent.

The British destroyer Foyle is sunk by a mine in the Straits of Dover.