Sunday, December 10, 1916
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-10Top News
The German raider SMS Möwe captured and scuttled the British cargo ship Georgic off the coast of Newfoundland.. The Autonomous Province of Korçë was established in Albania following an agreement between French officials and local nationalist leaders.. Swedish poet Verner von Heidenstam was selected to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Cabinet Council
Parliament
Witness Observations
"I saw the Prime Minister at his house at Walton Heath this afternoon and asked his instructions about sending the War Cabinet minutes to the King..."
"On the evening of the 9th Ll. George had resigned... I dined with Montagu. ... I lunched with the Asquiths on the 8th and 9th... On the 10th (Sunday) to-day I stayed in bed until 11.30... then motored down to lunch with Lloyd George at Walton Heath."
"Dined with L. G. at Downing Street. ... L. G.: Bonar Law said to me, “Do you want to go down to history as the greatest of all Englishmen?”"
"10th Dec. 1916 I wrote to the King: ‘Mrs Asquith presents her humble devotion to your Majesty. She cannot resist writing to say how deeply moved she and her husband have been...’"