Freddie Guest duly appeared, & brought me some rather interesting messages from Sir J French . . . First, as to personnel . . . Murray . . . must go home
Freddie Guest brings secret messages from French regarding staff changes and strategy.
Goonie . . . told me of the things that you have naturally never mentioned . . . the squalor & the horrors & the filth . . . Ll. George came to see me before dinner. He has . . . provoked something like a mutiny in the Treasury.
Asquith expresses revulsion at Venetia's nursing work based on Goonie's description, and discusses Cabinet changes.

Ottoman forces began assaulting El Qantara on the Suez Canal.. The 1st Canadian Division was formally mobilized for combat in France under Lieutenant General Edwin Alderson.
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