24, 25. A German aeroplane dropped bombs on Nancy; two persons killed, about twelve injured.
25. British air and sea raid on Cuxhaven,
—German aeroplane over Sheerness; the airman was shot at, and probably killed.
27. A British destroyer wrecked near St. Andrews; all hands saved.
28. Sudden storm in southern England; at Clapham a house was blown down, killing one person and injuring others.
29. At Edinburgh, Kate Hume, aged seventeen, of Dumfries, was convicted of forging and altering two letters purporting to relate German outrages on her sister; she was released on probation.
30. German aeroplane raid on Dunkirk; four aeroplanes dropped seventeen bombs intended for military buildings, but they fell in the market-place and streets; fifteen killed, thirty-two wounded, including many women.
—The Prussian casualty lists, numbering 112, gave the total of killed, wounded and missing as 771,073. The eighty-three Saxon, eighty-five Würtemberg, 130 Bavarian, and thirteen naval casualty lists increased this total by over 500,000. Some estimates, however, put the total German losses much higher.