Friday, June 16, 1916
Sunny
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Archive Silence
Map Unavailable
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H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
Map Unavailable
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-06-16Top News
Daily Edition
The Ottoman garrison at the Red Sea port of Jidda surrendered to Arab forces.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Went down to Stanway with Mamma by 9.50. ... Angela McInnes is a pathetic refugee here: a singing husband having brought her an ordeal of misery, she now has decided to divorce him."
Lord Riddell
"Called upon Brade and told him I thought L. G. would accept the office subject to having reasonable powers. ... I went into K.'s room, which looked very bare and empty without him."