Tuesday, September 14, 1915
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1915-09-14Top News
Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff ordered German airships to restrict bombing in London to the banks of the Thames and avoid poorer districts.
Cabinet Council
Parliament
>>Topics: Promised Statement By Lord Kitchener, Teaching Gaelic, Precautions Against Air Raids, Total Army Casualties In Twelve Months, Welsh Disestablishment, Supplementary Budget
Witness Observations
"We went up by night train to London. … I found things here developing rapidly—the Conscription gang making everything very difficult... Ll.G. addressed the Congress, and made a very good speech..."
"Mamma had a wonderfully courageous little letter from Ettie. She quoted a sentence from Charlie’s last letter to Laura: ‘I now know that I shall not die. This does not mean that I may not be killed.’ Papa very angry at dinner..."
"Your paper is a marvel! It disposes of the whole conscription case."
"On Tuesday night [14 September] D. dined with Churchill and Curzon. They had a most important talk, and Curzon says the Tories are going to approach the P.M. ... They will demand conscription and the removal of K."