Friday, July 7, 1916
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
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Venetia Stanley
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Official Register
1916-07-07Top News
Daily Edition
The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Lord Riddell
"Lunched with Winston and Mrs. C. at 41 Cromwell Road. ... Winston said, 'Asquith has treated me badly. He has not defended me as he should have done.'"
Maurice Hankey
"Kitchener and Fitzgerald went out early to the First Army and on to the French lines. The Prime Minister and I spent a quiet morning walking round to see Robertson and Macdonogh."
Cynthia Asquith
"Went round to see Margot at a quarter to eleven. She was very tearful and really quite nice... I hope I plumbed the depth of human misery alone in this beastly hotel: dead tired..."