Monday, October 23, 1916

Light 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
London
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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-10-23

Top News

Daily Edition

Allied forces stepped up shelling of Bulgarian defenses on the Crna River in Macedonia.. The German air squadron Jagdstaffel 17 was established.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

FS
Frances Stevenson

"D. returned on Saturday afternoon. As I thought, the Germans tried their best to get him. ... Nothing came of the Conference. The Italians are dead against it."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Wrote a joke letter to Bateman at breakfast—it was not sent. ... 'Dear Mr Bateman, Some relations of my mother’s have turned up unexpectedly...'"