Sunday, May 5, 1912

Sunny

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.

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H.H. Asquith
Maidstone
Venetia Stanley
Maidstone
HER DAYStaying at Vinters. Wrote to Edwin Montagu

Official Register

1912-05-05

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The first issue of Pravda, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, was published in Saint Petersburg. The first events of the 1912 Summer Olympics began in Stockholm.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Venetia Stanley
Venetia Stanley

"Yes do come Tuesday at about 5.30. I am going to the 1st Performance of Maurice’s play in the afternoon... Mr Asquith & Eliza motored me here in pouring rain yesterday and left me to one of the hardest imaginable fates... a newly married couple and a blind paralytic."