5. The German mercantile cruiser Prince Eitel Friedrich sank the British steamer Charcas about seventy miles south of Valparaiso; the crew were landed.
—French air raid announced on the Zeppelin sheds at Freiburg-im-Breisgau.
5-6. Heavy gale; serious floods in Wales.
7. Defeat and death of General Beyers in South Africa. (See For. and Col. Hist., Chap. VII.)
—The Rev. L. R. Phelps elected Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, vice Dr. L. Shadwell, resigned.
—Severe storm on the United States coast from Maine to North Carolina; many wrecks.
8. Off Barrow, the oil-tank steamer Vedra stranded and exploded; thirty-four persons were lost, two saved.
—In the King's Bench Division, an action by Sir John Brunner and Sir Alfred Mond against Mr. R. T. Palmer, a Leicester manufacturer, who, being excited by the war, had written addressing them as "German swine," was settled by an apology and payment of costs.
—British naval victory off the Falkland Islands. (See For. Hist., Chap. V.)