Sunday, August 15, 1915. Byng and Carranza.

The 1915 Galveston hurricane reached the center of the Gulf of Mexico and turned northwards towards the U.S. coast. 

There was much ado about Carranza.

Lieutenant-general Frederick Stopford, commander of the landing at Suvla, was relieved and replaced with Lieutenant-general Julian Byng.

Ottoman troops began murdering Armenians around Urfa, Turkey, leading to armed resistance.

The UB-4 hit a mine and sank. The Russian minelayer Ladoga also did.

Libyan Senussi fired on a British submarine investigating reported military maneuvers near Sollum, Egypt. General John Maxwell accepted the explanation from Senussi leaders that the party mistook the sub as an Italian boat.