Tuesday, February 1, 1916

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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
London
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-02-01

Top News

Daily Edition

A night raid by German Zeppelins on the West Midlands killed 35 people.. The British troop ship SS Empress Queen ran aground off the Isle of Wight.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Woke up at six... She had had the most divinely comic aphasia at dinner... sitting beside His Ex, she thought he was the Duke of Marlborough..."

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Frances Stevenson

"D. returned very late last night from France. ... D.'s face was care-worn and drawn... 'The horror of what I have seen has burnt into my mind.'"

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"Saw Captain Hall again first thing in the morning. He showed me more of Col. House's telegrams, sent from Berlin. Their trend was to indicate... that the Germans will not agree to the proposals of the U.S.A...."