New blackout regulations were introduced instructing that all windows and skylights be affectively shaded or obscured so that no. Right light be visible outside.The regulations had already been put into force for shops while for tram cars, the regulation said that the inside lighting shall be no more than that needed to collect fares.
There were more Zeppelin raids on the East Coast dropping bombs over Tyneside, one person was reported slightly injured and there were raids on the Essex coast which left little damage. Meanwhile there were rumours that a fleet of 150 Zeppelins were about to set out to attack London escorted by 400 aeroplanes.
The German U boats were still operating, the 9,000 tonne Harrison Liner Wayfarer, operating out of Liverpool was reported sunk off the Isles of Scilly, and a Grimsby trawler the Zarina was blown up by a German submarine with nine crew killed.
It later turned out that the liner was not hit by a torpedo but had suffered an internal explosion and started intoQueenstown harbour a few days later.
The latest casualties figures listed 21 soldiers from the Manchester regiment killed, with fifty one listed as wounded.
Two Manchester chums were killed by the same shell in Flanders, Charles Newsome and Gerry Frost from Withington, joined the Royal Scots together at the end of October.They were both members of Cheadle Golf club, Newsome a buyer for the Ralli brothers and a member of the Royal Exchange, Frost engaged in the tailoring business in Manchester.
Sir John French’s despatch from Neuve Chappele that week appalled for an almost unlimited supply of ammunition as the only means by which great results can be obtained with the minimum of loss. He gave the losses of three days fighting as 2,547 killed, 8512 wounded and 1751 wounded.
In a statement in the House of Commons the Prime Minister Told MP’s that the total number berof British casualties so far in the war were 139,347.
One of the casualties announced that week was the grandson of William Gladstone, WGC Gladstone, MP for Kilmarnock, the second MP to be killed at the front.
It was announced that recruiting for another Salford battalion would commence with sanction having been obtained from the Lancashire Fusilers.The new battalion would be called the Bantams.
Meanwhile the inquest was heard of Henry. John Hesse who was born in Chorlton on Medlock and was a passenger on the Falaba which was sunk by a German submarine.The coroner called his death another example of German “kultur and frightful ness”
It was Salford sessions this week.Amongst the crimes, an expert pickpocket from Farnworth, caught outside Bolton Wanderers football ground acting suspiciously, two housebreaker a who hadn’t been operating in the Irlam o heights area and another whom the judge heard that a previous prison sentence had made him into a habitual criminal.
There was a fire at the Salford No 8 docks, damaging the top floor of. Large warehouse where over a thousand cotton bales were destroyed.
The death of JB Johnson, one of the most famous swimmers in the world was announced in Manchester.Johnson was a instructor and attendant at Gorton baths. He had in his early days been a trapeze artist but his party piece was diving from great heights into shallow water, a routine that he startled the world with in 1871 when he dived from London Bridge into the Thames.
He had arranged for his brother to take a steamboat on the river and fall overboard at which point he would dive off the bridge and rescue him. His most remarkable performance was diving forty five feet into 2ftvsix inches of water in Staffordshire.
As the football season came to an end, there was speculation that from the end of the season there would be no further football played under the auspices of the Football association until the end of the war.
Mrs Taylor, who lived in a sweet shop on Hyde Foad in Gorton, celebrated her 101st birthday.She had good eyesight and memory and although somewhat hard of hearing she walked with a firmness.She lived with her 93 year old sister.
