Friday, April 14, 1916
Light Rain
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
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London
HIS DAYReceiving Cabinet Committee report on recruiting
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-04-14Top News
Daily Edition
The German battle cruiser SMS Nürnberg was launched in Bremen; it would later be claimed by the Royal Navy.
Cabinet Council
MEETING
>>Ref: War CouncilTopics: Compulsion/Conscription (Cabinet Committee advised extension to all men reaching 18 after August 1915)
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Beb woke up with temperature... I went up to London by the four something. ... Violet had a dinner of ten before her party... I sat next to Barrie and found it a sad humiliation."