Sunday, March 5, 1916

Cloudy

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

1916-03-05

Top News

Daily Edition

The Spanish ocean liner Príncipe de Asturias ran aground and sank off the coast of Brazil, resulting in the death of 445 of the 588 people on board.[2]

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Still more and more snow. I am weary of God's crude practical joke."

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"To lunch with L. G., T. P. O'Connor and Donald came also. Long talk on the advantages of the French Parliamentary Committee system."