Tuesday, December 12, 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
Map Unavailable
Kent
HIS DAYIn bed at Walmer Castle (exhaustion/liver poisoning/influenza). Receiving news of German peace proposals. In London (Cavendish Square)
Map Unavailable
?
Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-12Top News
Daily Edition
Ottoman forces abandoned their attempt to take the port of Yanbu.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Maurice Hankey
"I breakfasted alone with Lloyd George. He is very anxious to foist on me a Welshman called Thomas Jones, whom I interviewed after breakfast."
Lord Riddell
"Called to see L. G. Found him suffering from a severe chill... Recounted with discretion my interview with Winston, and suggested that L. G. should invite him to lunch..."
Cynthia Asquith
"Letter from Basil saying, alas, that they are just going back into the trenches. Lawrence sent me some typewritten poems which he proposes to ‘inscribe to me’."