3rd May 1918
Western Front
Quiet on front, artillery active locally.
British bring down 36 enemy planes.
Eastern Front
Germans and Finns surround and defeat Red Guard forces in south-west Finland.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
Attacked by superior forces, British withdraw from Es Salt and retire to west of Jordan.
Political, etc.
Mr. Lloyd George returns with cheering message from Paris.
Germany and Soviet Russia establish a special commission to exchange 3 million Russian prisoners in German hands for 1 million Germans held in Russia.
Ship Losses:
SMS G9 (Kaiserliche Marine) The V1-class destroyer struck a mine and sank in the North Sea with the loss of 31 of her crew.
Il Francesco (Italy) The sailing vessel was shelled and sunk in the Tyrrhenian Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of Monte Santo, Sardinia (40°10′N 9°50′E) by SM UC-35 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
Panaghia (Greece) The sailing vessel was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea (35°49′N 26°29′E) by SM U-27 ( Austro-Hungarian Navy). Her crew survived.
Vasilefs Georgios (Greece) The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north east of Pendeen, Cornwall, United Kingdom (50°13′N 5°40′W) by SM UB-103 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
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