Thursday, September 16, 1915

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Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.

Archive Silence
Map Unavailable
H.H. Asquith
London
HIS DAYSpeaking in the House of Commons (Alien Enemies, etc.)
?

Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1915-09-16

Top News

Daily Edition

The first British Women's Institute meeting was held in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales.. The UK edition of P. G. Wodehouse's 'Something Fresh' was published.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"Henry came into my room while I was dressing. … Knowing that his great talk to Ll.G., arranged by Eric and the Master, was imminent, I asked him if it had come off."

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"Wrote paper for Clerk... Saw Lord K. who asked me to join a new War Office General Staff Committee considering [the] question of future action at the Dardanelles. ... Churchill then pestered me to take up and press forward provision of a new trench mortar called the Stokes gun..."