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20 March 1916

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  • The Leader reports that a German man has been arrested in Forbes and taken to the concentration camp in Sydney. A German Interned
  • The sodden battlefields of Verdun refreeze as the temperature drops to -10C
  • German forces attack the Avocourt-Malancourt line and enter Avocourt Wood south-west of Bethincourt in the Battle of Verdun
  • British, French, and Belgian aircraft attack the German seaplane station at Zeebrugge and the aerodrome at Hourtade, causing considerable damage