Thursday, October 14, 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 (Dardanelles)
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1915-10-14Top News
Daily Edition
Bulgaria officially entered World War I by allying with the Central Powers and declaring war on Serbia.
Cabinet Council
MEETING
>>Ref: War CouncilTopics: Sir Ian Hamilton (proposal to send telegram terminating his command), Appointment of General Monro to command Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, General Birdwood, New attack in Gallipoli (Bonar Law believed Monro's dispatch committed govt to this; Balfour disagreed)
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
FS
Frances Stevenson
"On Thursday [14 October] D. stayed down at Walton, suffering from a touch of neuralgia."
Maurice Hankey
"Bonar Law lost his temper rather and is very anxious to withdraw from Dardanelles."
Cynthia Asquith
"We lunched at Adele’s. ... Bongie and Violet dined with us, and we went to the cinema, The Birth of a Nation at the Scala."