18th February 1918
Western Front
German raiders fail to get through defences in attempted air raid on London.
Eastern Front
End of Russian armistice.
German army crosses Dvina and marches on Dvinsk and Lutsk. A second army advances into Ukraine against Bolsheviks.
Russians evacuate Armenia.
Turks within eight miles of Trebizond.
Southern Finland now in hands of Bolsheviks.
General Mannesheim (commanding Constitutional forces, "White Guards") gathers an army together in the north.
Ship Losses:
Cecil L. Shave (United Kingdom) The schooner was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores, Portugal (35°30′N 11°20′W) by SM U-155 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
Nagata Maru (Japan) The cargo ship ran aground off Kirosaki, Niigata. She broke up on 12 March and was a total loss.
Normand (France) The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Mediterranean Sea off Marsa Sirocco, Malta by UB-52 ( Kaiserliche Marine). She was beached on Malta two days later. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.
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