2nd April 1915
Western Front
German attack stopped at Bagatelle (Argonne).
French air raids on German aviation camps in Belgium and Lorraine.
Eastern Front
Russian cavalry defeat German cavalry in northern Poland.
Russians take Cigielka (Carpathians).
Naval and Overseas Operations
English Channel
LOCHWOOD, Admiralty collier, 2,042/1900, Constantine & Pickering SS Co, Middlesbrough-reg, 21 crew, Mr T Scott, from Barry with 3,200t coal, steaming at 8kts in misty weather with sea rough, strong WSW wind.
U.24 (Rudolf Schneider) sighted on reverse course on port beam about 1žm distant, turned away, hoisted Norwegian ensign and went to full speed. U-boat followed, fired a first torpedo at 1745 and a second at 1815, then approached within hailing distance, ordered
Lochwood to stop and gave the crew 10min to abandon ship, while doing so a third torpedo hit port-side abaft the engine-room.
U.24 made off at 1900 and
Lochwood sank at 1930, 25 miles SW of Start Point, Devon (wi - in 49.54.30N, 04.04W).
German steamer Macedonia, which had been interned in the Canary Islands, evades British cruisers and escapes.
South African troops capture the key trading station of Aus, German Southwest Africa (today Namibia).
Political, etc.
Premier Asquith temporary takes the position as head of the Foreign Office as Sir Edward Grey goes on vacation.
American Note to Great Britain on the blockade.
Correspondence between Great Britain and Germany as to submarine crews taken prisoner by former, published.
Austria offers Italy a rectification of frontier in the Trentino.
Ship Losses:
Lochwood ( United Kingdom): The collier was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel 25 nautical miles (46 km) south west of Start Point, Devon by SM U-24 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Parquerette ( France): The barquentine was scuttled in the English Channel 18 nautical miles (33 km) north of Cap d'Antifer, Pas-de-Calais (50°20′N 0°16′E) by SM U-33 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.