[Sailor Steve]

March 30:

Western Front: In a letter to his mother Flt. Lt. Harold Rosher repeats a joke popular at the time:
One Tommy, speaking to another over the trenches: "'Ello, Bill, got a lice over there?"
"Garn, we ain't lousy!"
"I mean a boot lice!"



Off the English Channel, south of Cornwall: Georg-Günther von Forstner scores his last victory of this patrol when he stops SS Crown Of Castile, 4,505 tons, bound from St. John, New Brunswick for Le Havre, carrying a load of oats and hay. The crew are allowed to abandon ship and the freighter sunk with scuttling charges. U-28 heads for home with a final score of 9 ships and 25,508 tons.



Malta: The three monitors are battened down. Even the governor of Malta is not allowed below decks when he visits. The six tugs are pressed into service towing military equipment to the Dardanelles and Lemnos in preparation for the upcoming operations there.



Dardanelles: British General Hamilton tells Admiral de Robeck that they should renew the naval attack, since "It is always possible the opposition may crumple up. If you should succeed be sure to leave light cruisers enough to see me through my military attack in the event of that being after all necessary."



German East Africa: HMS Hyacinth joins Goliath at Kilindini Harbour, Port Reitz, Mombasa. Kinfauns Castle and Weymouth are still guarding the mouth of the Rufiji river.



Saudi Arabia: The German caravan sets out on its third night's journey. Short of water they comfort themselves with the knowledge that there are other watering holes ahead and they are only two nights' ride from their next destination, Jeddah (von Mücke calls it Djidda).