Tuesday, October 6, 1914

Cloudy

Correspondence (1 of 1)

Letter #175Time not recorded
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Freddy Guest came here to lunch to-day . . . He says . . . that the Germans owe such success as they have had entirely to their heavy howitzers . . . Also they enormously outstrip both us & the French in their machine guns.

Asquith discusses German superiority in howitzers and machine guns, and the proximity of trenches.

Mentioned:Freddy Guest • Sir John French

Metric Analysis

Romantic Adoration3/10
Political Unburdening6/10
Emotional Desolation2/10

Thematic Tags

German weaponry (howitzers/machine guns)Trench warfare conditions
H.H. Asquith
Londonⓘ
HIS DAYLunch with Guest.
Venetia Stanley
Penrhosⓘ
HER DAYWrote to Asquith

Official Register

1914-10-06

Top News

Daily Edition

The British submarine *E5* sinks a German destroyer (reported as S167 or S179) off the Dutch coast,,. Joseph Kennedy marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston.

Cabinet Council

MEETING
>>Ref: War CouncilTopics: Sanctioning proposals for English and French forces to land at Zeebrugge and Ostend, WSC's offer to resign and take command of forces at Antwerp (rejected)

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"Went with L. G. and Donald to see Potash and Perlmutter. We laughed immoderately."