Thursday, February 3, 1916

Heavy 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
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H.H. Asquith

No correspondence or official record found.

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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-02-03

Top News

Daily Edition

Fire destroyed the Centre Block of the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Woke early again to find the weather had at last broken... To his horror on looking down the table, Basil saw him screwing one of my long red ear-rings on to his great pneumatic tyre of an ear."

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Frances Stevenson

"D. spoke at Ponders' End... Dillon informed D. that the French were absolutely sick of the Prime Minister. ... We heard that poor young Hinds died yesterday."