Monday, January 3, 1916

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
Map Unavailable
H.H. Asquith
In London
HIS DAYIn London (implied). Sent a letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith
?

Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-01-03

Top News

Daily Edition

Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot signed the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement to define British and French spheres of influence in the Ottoman Empire.. Britain's Secret Service Bureau was reorganized, creating MI5 for domestic counter-intelligence.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Mamma started the startling idea of going to the hospital as a probationer. The P.M. sent me a letter from Strachey to him, full of dewdrops for Beb."