Wednesday, January 14, 1914

Cloudy

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

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

Archive Silence
H.H. Asquith
Travelling to Antibesⓘ
HIS DAYDealing with family matters; a statement was issued from Downing-street regarding the serious illness of his son, Mr. Cyril Asquith, in Khartoum.
Venetia Stanley
Franceⓘ

Official Register

1914-01-14

Top News

Daily Edition

Lord Rayleigh unveils a memorial tablet to Lord Lister at King's College, London. Earl Curzon speaks at a Primrose League meeting in Manchester, arguing against naval expenditure reduction. The verdict in the Senghenydd Colliery disaster inquest is returned as 'Accidental Death'.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Violet Asquith
Violet Asquith

"My Darling – Thanks so much for your glorious long letter... I haven’t written to you yet because I have been so wretched & undergoing such horrors. As you will know Cys developed dysentery a week after we got here... Lord K[itchener]. has been at the Palace for 3 nights... He was in very good & in extraordinarily mellow & placable form obsessed by India... I was very nearly killed myself in the crowd but saved by John Bigge."