28th April 1915.
Western Front.
Second Battle of Ypres: German offensive definitely stopped.
Germans bomb Dunkirk, Pervyse and Nancy; French bomb Friedrichshafen.
Germans storm French position at Les Mesnils.
Eastern Front.
Very powerful Austro-German offensive under von Mackensen begins between the Dunajec and Biala Rivers (west Galicia). Russians driven back.
Southern Front.
Dardanelles: Allied forces, aided by "Queen Elizabeth", advance on Krithia.
First Battle of Krithia; 3rd Royal Marine Battalion landed.
Albion, battleship, Canopus-class, 14,300t, 4-12in/12-6in, above Morto Bay on European side off Kereves Dere, providing gunfire support for French forces, shortly after noon, about to be relieved by Lord Nelson. Hit and damaged by Turkish shellfire, leaking and retired to Mudros for three days for repairs (Rn/D/Cn)
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres.
Skirmishes east of the Suez Canal.
Naval and Overseas Operations.
Germans defeated at Gibeon (German south-west Africa).South African Government publishes a Blue Book on the rebellion.
Rob.
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