No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
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German forces retreated at the Battle of Latema Nek.. Lieutenant-General Fenton Aylmer was relieved of command after repeated failures to relieve Kut.
"D. went to dinner with the Lord Chief Justice one evening, to meet Oppenheimer... D. flatly contradicted him. 'It will not end until 1918', he said."
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