May 8:
Johannes Spieß, commanding U-9, sinks two British freighters: SS Don, 939 tons, bound from Comarty to Blyth in ballast, and Queen Wilhelmina, 3,590 tons, tavelling from Leith to Fowey, also in ballast. His score is now 12 ships and 6,438 tons.
Aboard U-36 Ernst Graeff scores his first victory, sinking the Danish freighter Lilian Drost, 1,966 tons, heading from Blyth to Copenhagen with a load of coal.
Saudi Arabia: Hellmuth von Mücke and his men say goodbye to Suleiman Pasha and board the special train assigned to take them from Al Ula across the Turkish Empire to Constantinople.
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