The Year 1917
In North Persia, the Russians occupied Hamadan.
In Warsaw, a State Council was reported organizing a national army against Russia, using the Polish Legion as cadres.
On 3 March, on the Western Front, the Russians used gas in attack north of Lake Naroch.
On the Southwest Front, the Germans attacked southwest of Brzezany in Galicia, and near Voruchin, west of Lutsk, taking 4,000 prisoners.
On 4 March, on the Western Front, the Russians used gas in an attack near Krevo, southeast of Vilna. Russian aircraft carried out an air attack on Baranovichi.
On the Romanian Front, the Romanians bombarded enemy positions in the region of Calieni on the Sereth River. The typhus epidemic in Romania and Moldavia was now believed to be under control.
There were food riots in Russian cities, people suffered from a severe shortage of wood for fuel.
On 5 March, at Stavka, Chief of Staff General Alekseev arrived at Mogilev, returning from his recuperation in the Crimea. General Gurko returned to Mogilev from Petrograd.
In the Black Sea, Russian flying boats attacked ports near the entrance to the Bosporus.
In North Persia, the Russians occupied Kangavar, south of Hamadan.
In London, Lord Milner returned from the Allied Conference in Petrograd.
On 6 March, on the Southwest Front, the Russians failed in a night attack on German positions south of Brzezany.
Extreme severe cold in Russia had put more than 1,200 railroad engines out of action due their boiler tubes bursting. An exceptionally heavy snowfall over the past few days and shortage of labor to clear the permanent way had resulted in 57,000 railway wagons being unable to move.
On 7 March, at Tsarskoe Selo, Tsar Nicholas II left for Stavka HQ at Mogilev.
On the Western Front, German bombers derailed a Russian train between Vileyka and Molodechno.
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