May 29:
Quote:
"I went out to the War the other afternoon to see one of our anti-aircraft guns. We fired into the German trenches, and about two minutes later they replied with zest. Four or five shells whizzed over and burst about 30 yards behind us in a field. i picked up some fragments almost too hot to hold. We were within 1000 yards of the Huns and could see their and our own trenches rippingly through the glasses.
Have given up chasing Taubes. One can never get them. We have commandeered an old bathing hut for our office at the aerodrome, and have rigged up an awing outside, and bought deck chairs. You should see us all lying back in the sun with field glasses glued to our eyes, watching the various aeroplanes, with shrapnel bursting all around them. Our shooting is awfully bad on the whole.
Our villa is first-rate and oh! the gramophone has arrived safe and sound. Willing hands helped to unpack it, and we got it going in record time. It is immensely appreciated."
-Lt. Harold Rosher, letter to his mother, May 29, 1915
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Celtic Sea: Clause Hansen, commanding
U-41, finishes his second war patrol by sinking three more ships - Portuguese steamer SS
Cysne, 623 tons, inbound from Oporto to Newport with an unspecified cargo, and British merchants SS
Dixiana, 3,329 tons, traveling from Savanna to Le Havre with a load of cotton and pig iron, plus mixed goods, and SS
Glenlee, 4,140 tons, carrying a load of coal from Barry to Aden. Hansen then heads for home.
Adriatic Sea, off the east coast of Italy: Egon Lerch, in Austro-Hungarian submarine
U-12, sinks the Greek merchant SS
Virginia, 1,065 tons, traveling in ballast from an unnamed port to Trieste. This his his only sinking - he has previously taken a series of small sailboats of unspecified tonnage as prizes, for an unspecified total, and putting the French battleship Jean Bart out of action for many months.
British Somaliland: the monitors' convoy has their fastest day yet - 153 miles. Wireless communication is established with the squadron at Rufiji, and Admiral King-Hall informs Captain Fullerton that the tug
T.A. Joliffe has arrived safely. On the other hand HMS
Severn has started to list again and now
Mersey is down by the bow. In the afternoon the convoy is caught in a series of rain squalls, making it impossible to take land sightings.
German East Africa: HMS
Laconia reports heavy rain during the afternoon, inhibiting patrols.