Western Front
Two British officers struggling to get through the mud near Arras: © IWM (Q 10626):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...418233888657408
Eastern Front
Ukraine: French General Georges Tabouis vainly orders Czech Corps to cover Mogilev-Vinnitsa rail line against Germans.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Dardanelles: Naval action outside the Dardanelles. Turkish cruiser
Midilli (ex-German
Breslau) and British monitors
Raglan and
M28 sunk.
Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex-German
Goeben) strikes mines and is beached (see 27th). After 65 Royal Navy Air Service raids drop 180 bombs (2 hits), she is refloated and towed into Constantinople end of March. Admiral Calthorpe arrives at Mudros to direct operations on january 25.
SMS
Goeben, before she was transferred to Turkish control at the beginning of World War I:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...659795407130625
English Channel: Sloop H.M.S.
Mechanician torpedoed and sunk by
UB-35.
North Sea: German torpedo boats
A.73 &
A.77 mined and sunk; destroyer
S.16 likewise.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: (Listed for yesterday): General strike in Austria-Hungary grows, with hundreds of thousands of people stopping work to protest the continuation of war and cuts in rations.
(Listed for today): General strike in Austria-Hungary wanes, as people return to work. However, demonstrations continue in Bohemia and Moravia, fueled by rising Czech nationalism.
Russia: Russian politicians Fyodor Kokoshkin and Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev are murdered in a Petrograd hospital by pro-Bolshevik sailors. The Ministry of Justice later revealed that the murders had taken place with the connivance of the Bolshevik Red Guard and the Commandant of the Hospital, Stefan Basov, who justified the murder on the grounds that there would be 'two less bourgeois mouths to feed'. Basov was brought to trial and convicted, but none of the murderers was ever caught.