Saturday, January 31, 1914

Light Rain

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
Cheshire
HIS DAYStaying at Alderley Park, Cheshire
Venetia Stanley
Cheshire (probable)
HER DAYVery likely away from London at a hunting meet/house-party, spending the day hunting (typical ‘hunting day’ referred to in Asquith’s letters immediately after).. Probably in travel/transition between countryside and London (weekend pattern), with London return not expected until later (she is spoken of as coming up on a later Saturday night).

Official Register

1914-01-31

Top News

Daily Edition

The Bishop of London publishes a letter stating he found no evidence of brutality in the treatment of suffragist prisoner Rachel Peace. The German ship *Hera* is wrecked off Falmouth with the loss of 19 lives.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned