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Failure of French attack south-east of Hartmannsweilerkopf.
French consolidate their positions at Les Éparges.
German airship bombs Nancy.
Russians checked east of the Uzsok Pass.
Indecisive fighting at Kurna and Ahwaz.
Turks attack Basra from west and south.
French cruiser St. Louis bombards Gaza.
Battle of Shaiba (Mesopotamia) begins (see 14 April).
First Allied advance on Yaunde (Cameroons) begins (see 7 and 28 June).
Entente Governments make offer to Greece of Smyrna and hinterland in return for immediate action against Turkey (see 14 April and 24 January).
French Government notify Russian Government of their acceptance of Russian claims to Constantinople (see 12 March).
Papal Note to President Wilson declaring the readiness of the Pope to co-operate for the restoration of peace.

Notes

Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile The Lonsdale Battalion On This Day. The majority of the events shown on this day (12 April), including any supplementary notes, enlistments and statistical data etc., have been primarily sourced from the Lonsdale Battalion War Diary (November 1915 to June 1918), Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) and abridged material from Timeline and Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915), which are sourced from the original DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Events from that chronology are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther (2016). They are identified and referenced separately by their unique DLONS numbers. Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate. All casualty names, numbers, ranks, date of deaths and places of burial/commemoration have been sourced from Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database respectively.

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 *Turks attack Basra from west and south.
 *French cruiser ''St. Louis'' [[bombard]]s [[Gaza]].
+*Battle of [[Shaiba]] ([[Mesopotamia]]) begins (see [[14 April]]).
+*First [[Allied]] advance on [[Yaunde]] ([[Cameroons]]) begins (see [[7 June|7]] and [[28 June]]).
+*[[Triple Entente|Entente Governments]] make offer to [[Greece]] of [[Smyrna]] and hinterland in return for immediate action against [[Turkey]] (see [[14 April]] and [[24 January]]).
+*French Government notify Russian Government of their acceptance of Russian claims to [[Constantinople]] (see [[12 March]]).
 *Papal Note to President Wilson declaring the readiness of the Pope to co-operate for the restoration of peace.