- HMS Maori sinks the German submarine U8 in the English Channel; the German crew survives and is taken prisoner
- The third German attempt to bomb the United Kingdom fails when the naval Zeppelin L-8 encounters a gale over the North Sea and is blown out of control over Nieuwpoort, Belgium, where Belgian antiaircraft gunners shoot her down
- The French Government decides to send an Expeditionary Force to the Dardanelles