—Announcement that three British naval airmen had destroyed a Zeppelin at Düsseldorf.
10. Death of the King of Roumania. (See For. Hist., Chap. III.)
11. Two German aeroplanes flew over Paris soon after midday, dropping twenty bombs, of which one struck Notre Dame; three persons killed, fourteen injured.
—The Russian cruiser Pallada was sunk, with all her crew, in the Baltic by a German destroyer; two German destroyers sunk by the Russians.
11-12. Bombardment of Arras.
12. Warning by the Mayor of Gravesend regarding hostile aircraft.
13. The Prime Minister received a deputation of women protesting against a possible revival of the Contagious Diseases Acts, in view of the evils that had arisen in the neighbourhood of certain camps.
—Announcement of Maritz's rebellion in South Africa.
14. The first Canadian troops arrived at Plymouth.
—Fire at the Monfalcone Shipbuilding Works, near Trieste; a large cruiser building for the Austro-Hungarian Government was destroyed.