Western Front
First US Royal Flying Corps squadron (No 17) arrives (left Texas December 19, 1917), 9 more follow until March.
Reprisals threatened if British leaflet-scattering airmen improperly treated.
Bulgarian soldiers on the Western Front after being transferred from the East: © IWM (Q 87426):
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Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Peace negotiations between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk is in a deadlock over the status of Ukraine. Ukraine is also negotiating separately with the Central Powers.
Political, etc
Russia: German language Red broadcast from Tsarkoe Selo calls for military revolt and Kaiser’s murder.
Bolshevist campaign against Orthodox Church rousing opposition.
France: This French poster calls for women’s suffrage. Through the increased involvement of women in the world of work during the war, they gained the right to vote in Britain in 1918, while in France they had to wait until 1945:
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United Kingdom: Electoral Reform Act passed, 6 million
WOMEN OVER 30 RECEIVE VOTE, Commons enlarged by 37 members to 707
Romania: German Government send ultimatum to Romania demanding peace negotiations within four days (see 25th).
M. Ion Bratianu, Romanian Premier, resigns (appointed January 14th, 1914) (see 9th). General Alexandru Averescu forms new Cabinet on February 9.
United States: President Wilson asks for new powers to reorganize the Government and war machine.