March 18--Belgian Army continues to advance on the Yser; French continue to hold the heights near Notre Dame de Lorette despite repeated shelling of their position; Germans are fortifying towns in Alsace. March 19--Belgians and Germans are fighting a battle in the underground passages of a monastery in front of Ramscappelle; official British report tells of new German repulse at St. Eloi. March 21--Germans take a hill in the Vosges. March 24--New battle begins along the Yser. March 26--Belgians make progress on road from Dixmude to Ypres. March 27--French capture summit of Hartmanns-Weilerkopf Mountain. March 29--French are pressing the Germans hard at various points in Champagne; as an offset, the Germans renew activity against Rheims with lively bombardments; sapping and mining operations are stated to be the only means of gaining ground in the Argonne. TURKISH AND EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN. March 1--Turkish forces mass on Asiatic side of the Dardanelles under Essad Pasha, defender of Janina; Russians have completed the expulsion of Turks from Transcaucasus region and dominate the Black Sea. March 3--Russians, after three days' battle, stop reinforcements for Turks in the Caucasus. March 5--Turks abandon for the time the campaign against Egypt and recall troops. March 7--British drive Turks back from the Persian Gulf, with considerable losses on both sides; it is reported that the Germans killed 300 Turks in a conflict between these allies after the Egyptian retreat. March 9--Germans report that British were routed recently in Southern Mesopotamia. March 12--General d'Amaade, commander of the French forces in Morocco, has been put in command of a force which is to aid the allied fleets in operations against Constantinople. March 13--Turks are driven back in Armenia and Northwestern Persia. March 16--Russians rout Turks in Armenia and threaten Turks in the Caucasus. March 18--Turkish soldiers kill several civilians in the Urumiah district of Persia; Turks are massing large forces near Constantinople and on Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. March 19--Russians occupy Archawa. March 20--Turks reported to be four days' march from Suez Canal. March 23--Turkish force operating against town of Suez is routed. CAMPAIGN IN FAR EAST. March 12--It is reported from Peking that nine Germans, among them the German Military Attaché at Peking, who is leading the party, escaped from Tsing-tao when it fell, and have made their way 1,000 miles into Manchuria, where they are trying to blow up tunnels along the Trans-Siberian railway; Russian troops are pursuing them. CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA. March 21--Official announcement is made that General Botha, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Union of South Africa, has captured 200 Germans and two field guns at Swakopmund, German Southwest Africa. NAVAL RECORD--GENERAL. March 1--Norwegian steamer reports ramming a submarine off English coast.