—The cruiser Hermes, seaplane carrier, was sunk at 10.30 A.M. in the Straits of Dover while returning from Dunkirk; twenty-two killed, seven wounded.
NOVEMBER.
1. Sea-fight off the Chilean coast; H.M.S. Good Hope and Monmouth sunk. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. V.)
—The German Emperor reported to have had a narrow escape from bombs dropped by a British airman at Thielt.
—Foreign Office statement of repeated provocations offered by the Porte to the Powers of the Triple Entente, culminating in attacks on Russia and project of invasion of Egypt. (See For. Hist., Chap. III.)
2. British reverse in German East Africa. (See For. and Col. Hist., Chap. VII.)
—Municipal elections throughout England and Wales. By arrangement, contests were avoided almost everywhere.
—Admiralty announcement of restriction of navigation in the North Sea and on the North of Scotland and of Ireland, owing to indiscriminate scattering of German mines.
—Bombardment of the Dardanelles forts by an Anglo-French Squadron.
—Bombardment of Akabah by H.M.S. Minerva.