A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

Mar. 16 (Fri.)

The British occupy St. Pierre Vaast Wood.

A Zeppelin raid on Kent: one Zeppelin, returning from the raid, is brought down in France.

Mar. 17 (Sat.)

Resignation of M. Briand, the French Premier, and his Cabinet (see Oct. 28, 1915).

The Germans retreat in France on a front of nearly a hundred miles; Bapaume, Chaulnes, and fourteen villages north and south of the Somme are occupied by the British; further south the French occupy Lassigny, Roye, and many villages.

Persia:—The Russians occupy Kerind.

H.M.S. Mignonette (sloop) is sunk by a mine off the south-west coast of Ireland.

Mar. 18 (Sun.)

The British advance on a front of forty-five miles and occupy Péronne and Nesle; the French advance on a front of thirty-seven miles and occupy Noyon and many villages.