July 21:
United States: President Wilson issues his third protest over the sinking of RMS Lusitania and other ships which cost American lives. This one is more harsh, and insists that submarine operations can be conducted according to rules of war, and further similar attacks will be considered "unfriendly".
http://www.rmslusitania.info/primary.../us-protest-3/
Doctor Heinz Albert writes a letter to his wife refering to his association with German Military Attache Franz von Papen "...in the field known to you." Albert has come to the United States with a letter of credit from the German government for $4,000,000, and has been involved with German Ambassador Johann Heinrich Graf (Count) von Bernstorff in several plots intended to sway American influence away from the British.
Quote:
"I flew my old B.E. back here yesterday, as it has been hot stuffed. I admit it is rather a dud, but I had no wish to exchange it for a Voisin. After some little trouble I persuaded the Commander to let me have a Morane instead, and tried quite a nice one this morning, the first time I have flown one since I smashed. They are beastly unstable things, and I fully expect to turn this one over before the week is out. The Commander is keeping me here for a few days' rest before returning to the R.F.C. Dunkirk is quite a lively place nowadays. The Huns have dropped bombs on the aerodrome twice in the last week, but fortunately none of the lads were killed."
-Harold Rosher, letter to his father, July 21, 1915
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This is an extension to Rosher's letter of June 24. Apparently he was unable to finish and mail it for almost a month.
North Sea: Reinhold Lepsius, commanding
U-6, stops Swedish sailing barque SV
Madonna, 455 tons, bound from Halsingborg to West Hartlepool with a cargo of pit props. Lepsius allows the crew to abandon ship and then sinks her. Later he stops Norwegian freighter SS
Anvers, 862 tons, carrying a load of timber from Fredrikstad to London, and takes her as a prize. his score is now 6 ships and 6,671 tons.
German East Africa: Aboard both monitors work continues with the crews cleaning and painting ships while native workers removing armour plates.