Diary June 3, 1915

06-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Thursday, June 3, 1915:

Eastern Front

Galicia: Austro-Germans retake Przemysl. High Commands including Kaiser meet at Pless; Mackensen to get 4 1/2 more divisions and to control two Austrian Armies. 3 Austrian divisions and Headquarter of Third Army (Boroevic, Puhallo succeeds) leave for Italian Front.

Western Front

Flanders: British capture trenches at Givenchy but abandon them. Germans shell Ypres.

Middle East

Mesopotamia: 5 Royal Navy launches (Townshend and Captain Nunn) occupy Amara, take 1,000 Turk PoWs (a Turk officer cables wife ‘safely captured’).

Sea War

East Africa: Monitors Severn and Merser (4ft 9in (1.45 m) draft) reach Mafia island off Rufiji.

Air War

Western Front: French air raid (178 bombs) on field Headquarter of German Crown Prince.

Politics

Italy: San Marino declares war on Austria.
France: Allied Economic War Conference first meets in Paris.

Home Fronts

Italy: Prefects authorized to requisition farm machinery, labor and animals.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.