Tuesday, July 6, 1915

Heavy 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
Calais and Ypres
HIS DAYAt Calais Conference with French Ministers and Generals
Venetia Stanley
France
HER DAYI'm off to Hardelot this afternoon with Conrad & Hunter!. Wrote to Edwin Montagu

Official Register

1915-07-06

Top News

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The British monitors HMS Mersey and HMS Severn exchanged fire with the German cruiser SMS Königsberg in the Rufiji Delta, German East Africa.. Composer Edward Elgar premiered his new work 'Polonia' at Queen's Hall, London, as a tribute to Polish war victims.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"Day of conference, which opened most inauspiciously. ... in came French with Robertson... demanding where and when the conference was to be held. It appeared that... he thought the conference was at 7.50 a.m...."

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"Lunched with Winston Churchill at 21 Arlington Street... W. said, 'I think the Dardanelles will be the turning-point of the war... We are short of high explosives. That is the trouble.'"

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Beb went up to London by 10.10 to go before his Board at the Admiralty. I spent a rather muddled day with my luggage packed... returned to the hotel feeling very ill."

Venetia Stanley
Venetia Stanley

"Your telegram has just come. Lady N. opened it by mistake so it gave me an excellent opportunity of telling her I had to leave. ... I’m off to Hardelot this afternoon with Conrad & Hunter!"