Diary March 5, 1918

03-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Treaty of Bukarest — Romanian Prime-Minister Alexandru Marghiloman signing the treaty.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, March 5, 1918:

Eastern Front

RUMANIAN-CENTRAL POWERS PRELIM PEACE (signed at Buftea on May 7): Dobruja ceded; Hungarian frontier to be ‘rectified’; 8 divisions to demobilize at once; Rumania to help Central Powers’ march on to Odessa and grant German trade privileges.
Finland: Mannerheim cables Ludendorff, thanks Kaiser for weapons and insists on Finn command of German troops and noninterference (Hindenburg agrees on March 10).
Northern Russia: 130 Royal Marines land at Murmansk (French cruiser Amiral Aube arrives at Royal Navy request on March 19).
Latvia: Falkenhayn (from Palestine) takes command of German Tenth Army for duration of war.

Western Front

Germany: Germans introduce new ultrasecure 5-letter field cipher for Ludendorff Offensive, but French (Painvin) first solve c. April 4, break it on April 26; by May 29 only two-day delay in reading it.
Flanders: Belgian counter-attack north of Pervyse.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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