British officers examining French St. Etienne Mle 1907 machine guns at the School of Machine Gunners at Fere-en-Tardenois, 27 April 1918. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 93251).
- German troops capture the French villages of Fere-en-Tardenois and Vezilly and advance towards Ville-en-Tardenois, capturing 35,000 prisoners
- German submarine SM U-62 torpedoes the British passenger ship Ausonia in the Atlantic Ocean 1,150 km west of the Fastnet Rock. The Ausonia sinks with the loss of 44 crew.
