Eastern Front
Poland: General Stanislaw Haller and 5,000 men escape to Russia.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Third German destroyer raid by 11 German destroyers (2nd Flotilla) in Straits of Dover (night 15th/16th) (see April 20th, 1917) British trawler and seven drifters sunk in Straits of Dover; 4 more vessels damaged. No retaliation due to Royal Navy misreading of Dover Patrol signals.
Submarine shells Dover, one killed, seven injured.
U-55 last High Seas Fleet U-boat to use Dover Straits on February 18.
Representatives of Allied Governments arrange establishment of the "Allied Maritime Transport Council" (see December 3rd, 1917 and March 11th, 1918).
German destroyers at sea:
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Mozambique: In Coastal area British column from Port Amelia approaching Meza.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Jan Smuts cables that Edmund Allenby should have 2 divisions from Mesopotamia for 1918 offensive.
Persia: Lionel Dunsterville and armored car leave Hamadan for Enzeli on Caspian Sea (arrives February 17). Last Russians evacuate Meshed in east, 176 British soldiers replace them on March 14.
Political, etc
United States: U.S. Government takes over complete control of foreign trade.
U.S. government threatens striking shipbuilders that their draft exemptions will be revoked if they do not go back to work.