March 1--Paris Temps says that the Allies have reached an agreement by
which Russia will have free passage through the Dardanelles.
March 4--Village women capture and bind a detachment of German soldiers.
March 24--Congress of Representatives of the Nobility, in annual session
at Petrograd, passes resolutions stating that "the vital interests of
Russia require full possession of Constantinople, and both shores of the
Bosporus and the Dardanelles and the adjacent islands."
TURKEY.
March 9--American missionaries, arriving in New York from Jerusalem, say
that the fall of the Dardanelles will probably mean a massacre of Jews
and Gentiles in the Holy Land.
March 11--There is a panic in Constantinople and many foreigners are
leaving.
March 15--All Serbs and Montenegrins have been ordered to leave
Constantinople within twenty-four hours.
March 18--The rich are leaving Constantinople; Germans from the
provinces are concentrating there.
March 19--Appalling conditions prevail in Armenia, following massacres
by Turks and Kurds.
UNITED STATES.
March 1--Indictments are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in New York
against the Hamburg-American Steamship Company and against officials of
the line on the charge of conspiring against the United States by making
out false clearance papers and false manifests in connection with
voyages made by four steamships to supply German cruiser Karlsruhe and
auxiliary cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with coal and provisions;
indictments are returned by the Federal Grand Jury in New York against
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