Lord Kitchener was in The city, having arrived overnight from Liverpool.
He was greeted by the Mayor in Albert Square and reviewed ten battalions as they marched past,saluting him as he stood on a platform outside the Town Hall entrance.
It was to be a flying visit, he spent about an hour in the city before catching the train back to London.The previous night he had stayed with Lord Derby at Knowsley.
His appearance led to a huge increase in tram receipts almost double what they would normally be for a Sunday.
The marriage of a Gaiety Theatre actress was announced .Miss Eydth Goodhall married second lieutenant Leonard Francis Schuster of the 3rd battalion Cointy of London yeomanary at All Saints registry office.
The nuptials were short as she had to return to the Gaiety theatre for rehearsals for Galsworthy’s the Fugative in which she was playing the leading role. Her husband was expected to return to the front shortly.
The funeral took place of Private E Wills in Manchester. Private Wells from Darley St in Beswick was wounded after being run over by a gun carriage after its horses had bolted. He had been admitted to Ancoats hospital at the end of Nov.
The death in action was also announced of a well known swimmer Sgt. T. Norbury of the 5th Cheshire’s who was aged 24 and had lived in Stretford.
The inquest opened on the three victims of the Smith Bridge rail crash.They were named as James Moon of Fleetwood, the driver, John Mc Dermott, a dyer from Farnworth and Samuel Lord a tea salesman from Royton.
The inquiry was adjourned until the 1st April.
An inquest was heard in Stretford after the body of Charles Hill was found in the River Mersey near Barton Bridge. Hill,from Rawtenstall was a retired publican who had kept a hotel in Chorlton and was known in bowling circles.
The 53 year old had been last seen in the Chorlton Conseravitive club where he seems sober and was happy chatting with friends.He had intended to go to Fidsbury to see his daughter but nothing was heard of him after that.The evidence seemed to indicate that he had slipped down the bank of the Mersey and the jury returned a verdict of found drowned.
News from Athens indicated that troops had landed on the Gallipoli peninsula and that when further troopships arrive, a general attack on Turkish forces will commence, but the operation was awaiting better weather conditions.
A military order covering Lancashire and Cheshire issued under the defence of the realm act, decreed that from next week public houses would not be allowed to open until 10.30 am on weekdays and would close at 10.pm. On Sunday’s there will only open between 12.30-3.30pm and 6.30-9.30pm.
It was announced that a proposed scheme to build a public baths in Levenshulme was to be postponed following a request from the treasury that public bodies should not spend money on works that could be postponed during the war.
A london teacher, writing to his parents in Manchester described the recent fighting in France.” We have had eight days of action and they have been the busiest eight days of my life.” He added that men who were at Mons described this battle as being far more terrible
A regular shipping service began from the port of Manchester to Le Havre.Run by Cunrad it would sail every ten to fourteen days with the first sailing on the 8th April by the steamer the Cheshire.
