page_title: March 1915
section_title: March 25, 1915 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1915 / March 25, 1915 (Thursday)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1915:
context_section_description: General elections were held in Japan, with the Rikken Dōshikai party winning the majority in the House of Representatives with 153 of the 381 seats.
  The U.S. submarine F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing all 21 sailors on board. It was the first commissioned submarine of the United States Navy to be lost at sea.
  The British cargo ship SS Tamar was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) northeast of Pernambuco, Brazil by German naval ship SMS Kronprinz.
  The Royal Flying Corps established the No. 4 Squadron at Dover, England but was absorbed into the naval air force by October.
  The 111th, 113th, 119th and 121st Infantry Divisions of the Imperial German Army were established, and fought on both the Western and Eastern fronts.
  In a letter exchange between German and Ottoman ambassadors, it was reported the Armenian Zeitun militia resistance ended after Ottoman forces captured the  city (now Süleymanlı).
  Ross Sea party — Sledge parties that laid out supply depots across Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic for the main party of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition rendezvoused at Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island. While most of the depots had been laid out, teams of dogs had been lost, many of the men suffered from frostbite and exhaustion, and ice conditions made it impossible to return to the shore base in Cape Evans until June 1. As a result, morale of the men under command of Aeneas Mackintosh was low.
  The association football club Melgar was formed in Arequipa, Peru, and remains one of the oldest active Peruvian sports clubs in the Peruvian Primera División.
  Born: Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer, best known for popular hits such as "I'm in the Mood for Love", in Pontyberem, Wales (d. 1998); Anton Hackl, German air force officer, commander of the Jagdgeschwader 26, Jagdgeschwader 76, and Jagdgeschwader 11 for the Luftwaffe during World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, in Regensburg, Germany (d. 1984)
caption: U.S. Navy inspection team examining the large implosion hole in the port side of submarine USS F-4 after it was raised and towed to Honolulu, August 1915.
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