Sunday, December 26, 1915

Rain

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

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

Archive Silence
H.H. Asquith
Wiltshire
HIS DAYAt Easton Grey, Malmesbury
Venetia Stanley
Cheshire
HER DAYHunting (soaked to the skin by rain). In bed from 3.30 to 6.30 PM after hot bath. Reading book by Mr Birrell

Official Register

1915-12-26

Top News

Daily Edition

The Treaty of Darin was signed between Great Britain and Ibn Saud.. British boats captured the German warship Kingani on Lake Tanganyika.. British submarine HMS E6 struck a mine and sank off Harwich.. The Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decided to stage an Easter Rising in 1916.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"At twelve o'clock Papa and I played two sets of tennis against Grace and Evan. They won both... Beb still writing variations on his fifty-pound poem."