Thursday, April 27, 1916
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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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H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
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Venetia Stanley
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Official Register
1916-04-27Top News
Daily Edition
Major-General John Maxwell arrived in Dublin to take command of 12,000 British troops to suppress the Easter Rising.. German forces launched concentrated gas attacks on the 16th Irish and 15th Scottish Divisions near Hulluch, France.
Cabinet Council
MEETING
>>Ref: War CouncilYes
Parliament
IN SESSION
>>Topics: Government conduct (criticized by Churchill)
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"News of fighting at Katia—our Yeomanry were the troops engaged. Lord Quenington's death in the paper..."
Maurice Hankey
"Lunched with General Seely. He spoke in most disparaging terms of our generals. Not one in a thousand, he said, had the brain power of the worst Cabinet Minister."