Captain Schlaginweit, who had been arrested and held at the Town Hall was driven to Exchange station and escorted to Chester under military escort.

There was a preictable rush to join the Manchester regiment with the halls and passageways of the warehouse of Tootals overrun with young men waiting to apply

Meanwhile there was was an appeal for 5000 special constables for Manchester, already many had enrolled and spent the day practicing drill at the Albert Road Police station.

Reports were arriving of the condition of the wounded soldiers in London returning from the fighting in Belgium.

Between two hundred and fifty and three hundred had disembarked from Southampton with London’s Waterloo station ringing out with cheers.

The wounded arrived in two batches and were willing to talk to the press.
An Argyll and Sutherland highlander told the waiting reporters that the Germans shelled us in the field hospitals but they didn’t do much damage ‘they cannot shoot for toffee.’

Another described the German army as being like a great battering ram who did not seem to mind how many were killed, ‘sometimes their men were simply thrown away.’

It was now four weeks since war had been declared. The football association issued a long pronouncement on the war advising clubs to forfill their engagements while at the same time trusting that every young man who can possibly do so will respond to their country’s call.

They also recommended that all clubs provide military training for their players and set up miniature rifle ranges.

The Lancashire rugby union committee meanwhile decided to abandon its fixtures and recommended that local clubs did the same.

The War Office gave its first official account of the battle at Mons.The fighting had lasted four days from Sunday 23rd until Wednesday 27th when our troops had withdrawn behind the Cambrai Le Cateau line.Between five to six thousand men had been lost in the battle, German losses were said to be much heavier.

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