[Sailor Steve]

July 4:

New York City: A bomb explodes at the New York Police Headquarters building. Police suspect this is related to Holt/Muenter, and that he has accomplices.



Air War: Oswald Boelcke, flying a two-seater for FFA 62 (probably an LVG C.II) with Heinz von Wühlisch as observer, engages in a running battle with a Morane 'L' parasol two-seater. Von Wühlisch shoots down the enemy plane, killing both air crew. He is awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class and Boelcke is promised the unit's first Eindecker.

Kurt Wintgens claims another Morane, but this is also listed as "Unconfirmed."



Celtic Sea: Otto Wunsche, commanding U-25, starts his career stopping and sinking the British schooner SV Sunbeam, 132 tons, travelling from Leith to Kirkwall with a load of coal.

Walter Forstmann ends his second war patrol with an unsuccessful attack on British freighter SS Anglo-Californian, bound from Quebec to Avonmouth with a cargo of horses.
(see Jim's post above for details).



Aegean Sea: Otto Hersing begins his 5th war patrol in U-21 by sinking the French freighter SS Carthage, 5,601 tons, off Cape Helles, Gallipoli. While watching the ship sink U-21's periscope is spotted by the crew of a trawler. The trawler attempts to ram, but Hersing takes his boat deep - right into a mine. The damage is extensive but minor, and temporary repairs are made. Hersing takes U-21 up the Dardanelles to Constantinople, where she will be out of the war for the next seven months.



German East Africa: The crews of the two monitors spend the day stowing more petrol tins. All their personal effects are collected and taken to HMFM Trent.