Friday, May 12, 1916

Heavy 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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H.H. Asquith
Ireland
HIS DAYVisiting Ireland (Cork, Belfast, Dublin). In Ireland (Dublin)
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-05-12

Top News

Daily Edition

Irish leaders Seán Mac Diarmada and James Connolly were executed in Dublin while Prime Minister H. H. Asquith visited the city.. The New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade began patrols in the Sinai desert.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Zoller came to do my hair at eleven. ... I went to Cadogan Square to see Mamma... I dropped her at Mr Balfour's, and Beb and I and dined with Frances."

Margot Asquith
Margot Asquith

"The Times wrote next day of H.’s return ‘We hope it is of good omen that the PM... was able to go straight from Cork to a matinée.'"

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"I have had much trouble with Lord Curzon to-day about this Air business... Curzon is an intolerable person to do business with... I had to tell him straight out that he was not the only pebble on the beach."