Saturday, October 23, 1915

Rain

Correspondence (0)

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

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H.H. Asquith
HIS DAYRecuperating at The Wharf, Sutton Courtney
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1915-10-23

Top News

Daily Edition

British troopship Marquette was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea by a German submarine, with the loss of 167 lives.. Famous English cricketer W. G. Grace died of a heart attack.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

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Frances Stevenson

"D. is actually having his teeth out today. ... His depression about the situation does not tend to make him more cheerful. ... The unfortunate part is, that although the Northcliffe press is absolutely right in their estimate of the situation..."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"We took John to the Zoo... We went down to Stanway by the 4.45. The pain of Stanway is in a way intense—the whole of that little passage is so imbued with Ickey."