Friday, March 17, 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.
Map Unavailable
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-03-17Top News
Daily Edition
The Pancho Villa Expedition commander John J. Pershing established a base of operation in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.[4]. Ernest Shackleton calculated that the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition's emergency camp had drifted 60 miles east of Paulet Island.[4]
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
IN SESSION
>>Topics: Army debate (held previously, likely March 16)
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Lovely day. Bibs and I both had ‘spring fret’. Basil, Beb, and Papa came by late train. ... I felt very flat and depressed."