Wednesday, December 29, 1915

Light Rain

Correspondence (0)

Gap in Correspondence

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

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H.H. Asquith
London
HIS DAYIn Cabinet Room (London). Cabinet meeting
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1915-12-29

Top News

Daily Edition

Ernest Shackleton called off the march to Paulet Island due to ice conditions.. The children's play 'The Starlight Express', with music by Edward Elgar, premiered in London.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"I am writing in bed in 10 Downing St. I felt in my bones yesterday at Easton Grey that Henry was in trouble. ... H. 'Oh! things are very rocky, very very rocky'... 'Simon... will go—in fact, he has gone.'"

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Frances Stevenson

"And so M. Albert Thomas had his way. He explained to D. how it was that he had succeeded in persuading the French Government to agree to the Salonika expedition."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Went up for one of my fortnightly jaunts to London by the early train. ... Went to Guy and Frances, where I arrived in Margot's wake... She is being surprisingly tiresome about the engagement..."