June 22:
Air War: The fifth Fokker M5K/MG, s/n 3/15, leaves factory. It is shipped to FFA 62 at Douai, and earmarked for Oswald Boelke.
North Sea: Max Valentiner, in U-38, sinks the Russian sailing ship Leo (also given as Leo Usikanpunski), 269 tons, travelling from Moss to Canada in ballast. Valentiner now has 5 ships and 6,067 tons.
German East Africa: At 0840 hours HMS Severn anchors offshore for gunnery practice. At 1500 Severn ties up to the collier Kendal Castle, hands off 18 oil drums and receives 1,000 petrol tins.
At 1035 HMS Mersey receives another 1,000 kerosene tins from T.A. Joliffe. At 1220 the monitor anchors offshore for gunnery practice.
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