British advance on Bapaume. Mexico denies having received an offer from Germany suggesting an alliance. Russian Czar suspends sittings of the Duma. Bagdad captured by British forces under Gen. Maude. Wilson announces arming of merchant ships by executive order 14.
China breaks with Germany.
Prince Lvoff heads new cabinet. Bapaume falls to British. Roye and Lassigny occupied by French. Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated by Germans, who retire on an 85-mile front. City of Memphis, Illinois, and Vigilancia, American ships, torpedoed.