Diary March 4, 1916

03-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Attacking German U-boat in the Atlantic.

Diary for Saturday, March 4, 1916:

Sea War

Germany: Tirpitz and Admiral Holtzendorff fail to get Kaiser’s Crown Council to back unrestricted U-boat warfare, postponed till April 1.
East Atlantic: U32 (Spiegel) opens new offensive sinking British tanker Teutonion 36 miles southwest of Fastnet, 13 U-boats sent to Southwestern Approaches (until April 24). UC-Boats lay 73 minefields with total of 710 mines, sinking 30 ships until April.

Western Front

Verdun: Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter killed, aged 36, by French shell at Gussainville Castle. Wrote of German wounded coming back ‘like a vision in hell’ (M;arch 3). Germans repulsed east of Poivre Ridge.

African Fronts

5th Indian Light Infantry (517 men) lands at Mombasa from Cameroons. Portuguese seize German ships at Lourenco Marques.

Politics

Anglo-Russian Military Demarcation Agreement on Persia expands latter’s 1907 share to line Khanikin-Isfahan-Birdjan.

Home Fronts

Germany: 4th War Loan (until March 24).

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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.