Thursday, December 14, 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
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Kent
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-12-14Top News
Daily Edition
The British cargo ship Russian was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
RECESS
Adjourned
Witness Observations
Maurice Hankey
"I knew that Ll. G. was making the pace too hot and that either he or I would crack up. ... Ll. G. has crocked to-day and is confined to his bed... I am still fighting about my staff..."
Margot Asquith
"I walked gingerly into the outer hall... The head messenger... ‘There they all are! any amount of ’em... It makes one’s ’eart ache to think of our dear Prime Minister away, and such fellers as Carson and an ignorant little sneak like Ll.G. shoving themselves in his shoes.’"