. . . There is a truly royal row on the stocks between Kitchener & Ll. George in regard to the proposed Committee on munitions. . . . There is also a troublesome business between the Press Bureau & the London papers . . .
Asquith reports a row between Kitchener and Lloyd George over munitions, and press complaints.

British intelligence received word that Germany had broken British merchant ship codes.

"Saw Churchill at Admiralty. Found him very depressed about Dardanelles, also very seedy with laryngitis... Found him very anxious about possibility of German attack on Holland."
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