Diary March 4, 1915

03-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

U-8 sunk — U-8 was the first U-boat lost, being sunk by ‘HMS Maori’ and ‘HMS Gurkha’ on March 4, 1915. The ram became the favorite method of submarine destruction.

Diary for Thursday, March 4, 1915:

Home Fronts

Britain: Admiralty decides the 29 PoWs of U8 cannot receive ‘honorable treatment’. Germany threatens reprisals on April 2.
Shells and Fuses Agreement allows use of unskilled labor and women.

African Fronts

Cameroons: Second Action at Harmann’s Farm: both sides retire, 550 British soldiers dig in at Fort Bare after some panic.

Sea War

Dardanelles: Anglo-French bombardment of Dardanelles forts continues. 5 troop transports arrive at Mudros. 300 Royal Marines (48 casualties) repulsed on both shores, only 4 MGs destroyed.
Admiralty sends instructions on reducing Bosphorus forts.
Enver Pasha request made in Vienna to buy 3 Austrian U-boats at Pola for Dardanelles defense, but only 2 operational and not feasible.

Air War

Dardanelles: Royal Navy Air Service and French float planes spot fall of shot for Allied bombardment of Turk forts.
Western Front: German Navy airship L8 shot down by Belgian troops en route to London.

Politics

Italy: Ambassador Imperiali tells British foreign minister Grey territorial conditions for joining Allies.

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Kretaner

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.