Tuesday, July 18, 1916
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London
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Venetia Stanley
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Official Register
1916-07-18Top News
Daily Edition
British relief forces arrived at Delville Wood, allowing South African troops to retake some ground lost the previous day [6]. The French air force began painting metal parts of Morane-Saulnier aircraft red to distinguish them from German Fokker monoplanes [6]
Cabinet Council
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Parliament
IN SESSION
>>Topics: Dardanelles Papers (Asquith's statement refusing publication)
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"I lunched with Bluetooth. He implied that what he had thought villainy, he now knew to have been extreme simplicity... When I got back to Cadogan I found wonderful surprise—a thirty-pound cheque from Evan..."