No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Location unknown.
German warship Kingani ran a reconnaissance mission on the lake port of Kalemie on Lake Tanganyika.. The 1st and 2nd Composite Mounted Brigades of the British Army were disbanded.. A mob of soldiers vandalized the German Club in Sydney, Australia.

"Winston Churchill was 40 today. I wrote and congratulated him upon his youth. He has done a great deal for a man of 40."
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