Sunday, May 9, 1915. Combined offensive.

French and British forces launched offensives, the French at Artois and the British to the north at Aubers Ridge.

The British attack was an unmitigated disaster.  The tragedy of it, in a way, resulted in the poignant painting The Last General Absolution of the Munster Fusiliers which appeared in The Sphere.

Russian Grand Duke Nicholas permitted a limited withdrawal of Imperial Russian forces as Austro-Hungarian Third and Fourth Armies pressed forward in the Carpathian Mountains.

The German government released a report accepting responsibility for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania but maintaining that the ship was carrying munitions in spite of its pre trip inspection that showed it was not.

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Friday, May 7, 1915. The Sinking of the Lusitania.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, German Kriegsmarine, RMS Lusitania, World War One