NEED FOR SHELLS. BRITISH ATTACKS CHECKED — LIMITED SUPPLIES THE CAUSE.
- The Times in London reports that Britain is being defeated on the battlefield due to a shortage of ammunition. The report gives rise to a crisis on the home front and leads to the creation of a British Ministry of Munitions headed by David Lloyd George. London Times article sparks “Shells Crisis”
- Edgar George Clarke enlists. Edgar is commemorated on the Centenary of WWI in Orange Honour Roll; he would be killed in action in France on 2 April 1917.
- Austro-Hungarian forces launch an attack against Italian troops on the Asiago front in the Italian alpine region of Trentino. The offensive continues until 10 June.
- British Monitor HMS M30 comes under Turkish fire and is sunk whilst enforcing the Allied blockade in the Gulf of Smyrna in the Mediterranean
HMS M30 leaving Mudros, October 1915. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (SP 570)
