May 22:
Quote:
"A Taube came right over the aerodrome this morning at about 7,000 feet. I at once went after it in the Avro, but got nowhere near.
First thing this morning I saw a Maurice (Farman) coming down vertically and spinning hard - lost sight of it behind the housetops - pilot and passenger badly hurt - was surprised to hear they were alive. It was a horrid sight.
Anxiously awaiting arrival of gramophone."
-Harold Rosher, letter to his father, May 22, 1915.
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North Sea: Hans Schultheß, commanding
U-23, sinks Norwegian freighter SS
Minerva, 3,735 tons, bound from New York to Christiania with a general cargo. His score is now 5 ships and 8,495 tons.
Italian Somaliland: The monitors' convoy is now making such slow progress that the tugs don't have enough coal to tow the monitors the rest of the voyage. Captain Fullerton has the liner
Trent take HMS
Mersey in tow herself. The risky transfer of tow lines in heavy seas is accomplished with no trouble, and the convoy proceeds on their way.