Saturday, April 8, 1916
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-04-08Top News
Anglo-Egyptian forces occupied the Sudanese town of Abiad during the Darfur Expedition.[12]. Members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition struck their second emergency camp as the ice floe began to split.[12]
Cabinet Council
Parliament
Witness Observations
"L. G. says Bethmann-Hollweg's speech is most important. ... The political situation here is still disturbed. Derby wants to resign... L. G. favours conscription for all-married and single-but Bonar Law and the Tories funk the situation."
"We expected Gwendoline at about three, but she didn’t come... till about 6.30... Eddie arrived about seven. He was made to travel with bottles of wine like John Gilpin, as Beb had forgotten to order it."