Sunday, November 19, 1916

Snow

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.

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Venetia Stanley

Location unknown.

Official Register

1916-11-19

Top News

Daily Edition

Bulgaria was forced to retreat from the city of Bitola, Macedonia, at the Battle of the Crna Bend.. American pilot Ruth Law set a new cross-country flight distance record by flying 590 miles non-stop from Chicago to New York State.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"L. G., Lord Shaughnessy, and T. P. O'Connor to lunch. ... To dinner with L. G.. Found him very gloomy. L. G.: 'I am very depressed about the war.'"

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Frances Stevenson

"D. & I went down to W.H. last night. It was very cold & cheerless down there when we arrived. ... D. was very rattled..."

Cynthia Asquith
Cynthia Asquith

"Lots of snow on the ground... Letter from Basil saying, alas, that he was going into a 'ditch'. ... Tearful in church..."