Sunday, December 3, 1916
Cloudy
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Archive Silence
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Kent / London
HIS DAYAt Walmer Castle (morning). Returning to London (afternoon). Meeting Bonar Law. Returning to London (Downing St) from Walmer
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-03Top News
Daily Edition
Ottoman forces attempted to capture the British-held port of Yanbu during the Arab Revolt.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
FS
Frances Stevenson
"D. & I motored down this morning... The Conservative Ministers met today... It seems that D. has persuaded the P.M., who told Bonar Law that 'he would not resign'."
Lord Riddell
"Dined with L. G. at Walton Heath. He told me that the P.M. had accepted his scheme for a War Council."
Cynthia Asquith
"Beb and I breakfasted with Mary and Oc in order to regularise their position... We discussed politics... I twitted and upbraided Beb with incurable faithfulness."