Diary July 9, 1915

07-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

The early negotiating surrender of Southwest Africa gave the German colonists the opportunity to save their culture up to the present time (here the Swakopmund Brewery today), while the Germans lost their possession in the other colonies.

Diary for Friday, July 9, 1915:

African Fronts

GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA SURRENDERS. Officers retain swords and paroled, NCOs and men interned. Paroled reservists allowed back to farms. South Africa annexes German Southwest Africa on July 15.

Middle East

Gallipoli: Turk Second Army C-in-C Wehib Pasha takes over Helles sector, is refused armistice to bury dead.

Neutrals

USA: German radio station at Sayville, Long Island taken over by government.
Portugal: Anglo-Portugese Commercial Treaty ratified at Lisbon.

Home Fronts

Britain: Kitchener Guildhall appeal for more recruits. By July 2 million volunteers (which usually have no idea what awaits them on the Western Front), 260 hutted camps with 850,000 houses and 150,000 horses.
Egypt: Bomb misses Sultan.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.