A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The French and British advance on an eighty-mile front, the British towards Cambrai and St. Quentin, the French towards La Fère and Laon.

Mar. 21 (Wed.)

The British advance towards St. Quentin and occupy forty villages; the French capture Jussy and force the passage of the Crozat Canal.

The British hospital ship Asturias is sunk without warning by a German submarine (midnight, 20-21).

Mar. 22 (Thur.)

The French cross the Crozat Canal and the Ailette.

Mar. 23 (Fri.)

The French gain ground against fierce resistance between St. Quentin and La Fère; the Germans flood the region round La Fère.

The raider Möwe is reported to have returned to Germany for the second time (see March 4, 1916).

The British destroyer Laforey is sunk by a mine in the English Channel.