Tuesday, October 12, 1915
Cloudy
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Archive Silence
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London
HIS DAYSpeaking in the House of Commons (American Loan Bill)
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1915-10-12Top News
Daily Edition
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
Cabinet Council
MEETING
>>Ref: War CouncilTopics: Recruiting (Entire sitting occupied with this), National Register figures (recruitable reservoir), Lord Kitchener's estimate of Army requirements (35,000 men per week), Conscription vs. Voluntary system (McKenna/Runciman opposed; Lansdowne/Curzon/Lloyd George/Churchill in favor)
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
FS
Frances Stevenson
"The situation is desperate, and it seems absolutely impossible to make any headway. One would have thought that Kitchener would have come back from France with a definite plan. ... Carson has resigned..."
Cynthia Asquith
"Woke up to the inevitable of my first day in London... Bluetooth came 5.15... Beb and I dined at Les Lauriers..."