Tuesday, April 18, 1916
Rain
Correspondence (0)
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No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
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London
HIS DAYCabinet meeting. Announcing postponement of statement. In London. Attending Cabinet meeting regarding conscription
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-04-18Top News
Daily Edition
Captain Peter Norman Nissen completed the prototype of the Nissen hut, which became a standard military structure.[16]
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Margot Asquith
"H. was locked up all the morning with Crewe, Robertson, Bonar, Walter, etc. … Donald, editor of Daily Chronicle, put himself on to tea. ... Donald told me Ll.G. was loathed in the Country..."
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Frances Stevenson
"A statement is to be made in the House this afternoon by the P.M. to the effect that the Cabinet are not agreed... D. has not resigned yet, but it is touch and go."