Western Front
British soldiers smoking and sharing jokes in the trenches at Cambrin: © IWM (Q 8458):
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British troops carry out successful raids against German lines east of Armentieres and at Queant, France, taking several German prisoners.
British officers wading through a communication trench that has been muddied by thawing snow at Essigny, France: © IWM (Q 10681):
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Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Kaiser orders Richard von Kühlmann to end talks and demand Baltic States.
Finish Civil War: (until May 15): Civil war in Finland still raging.
Southern Front
Salonika: King Alexander visits British including Struma front on February 9.
Italian Front: King Albert of the Belgians visits until February 9, ‘I thought that the Italian Army was more disciplined than ours’.
(Listed for yesterday): American Red Cross distributing gifts to Italian soldiers in the trenches along the Piave River:
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Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: (Listed for yesterday): Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...927350669172737 known for works such as the “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I”
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...927350669172737 , passed away.
France: Decree creates Czech Army. A group of Czechoslovak soldiers in French uniforms on the Western Front. They were recruited from captured or deserted Austro-Hungarian soldiers:
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United Kingdom: Britain makes a call for Jews holding British or other Allied citizenship to serve in the British Army to fight against the Ottomans in Palestine.
Romania: British Foreign Office cables to Jassy urging no separate Romanian peace.
C-in-C Alexandru Averescu promises Col Colin Ballard to try and stop munitions going to Central Powers.
United States: Former President Roosevelt undergoes surgery for fistula and abscesses in his ears, but contracts an infection during the process.