In a letter to his parents in Higher Broughton, Private Alan Barton serving with the 6th Manchester’s in Gallipoli and now slightly wounded in hospital in Malta told of the attack on the Turkish lines.

“Our artillery gave the Turks a good bombardment for about four hours and then the order to charge was given.Every man leapt over the parapets and the Turks fled like a flock of sheep and only a few in the trenches kept firing.I caught a few of them on the run and was being down to baggage up a wounded man when a bullet struck me on the arm.I crawled back to our trenches and had it dressed…..You cannot imagine what it felt like to charge, the shrapnel was bursting a few feet from us, the Turks on the move screaming like children and our chaps cheering bullets whistling past, many chaps falling beside us.”

Meanwhile a verdict of suicide while insane was recorded on Private Herbert Bradwell of Bury New Road Whitefield who was found in woods suffering from a gunshot wound to the head , a letter was later found threatening to kill his wife and then commit suicide. 

The lists of those killed in Gallipoli continued to rise, Private Fred Chilton of Levenshulme,Lance Corporal Wade from Mosside,Private Herbert Mottram of Hilme,Brothers John and Norman McGee of Chertham Hill, and Lanve Corporal Wilde of Didsbury 

In the Hoise of Commons the Prime Minister announced that so far in the campaign,38,648 had been either killed or wounded during the Mediterian campaign,of that figure the deaths recorded were so far 7,500. 

Another British liner was sunk by the German’s the Leyland liner Armenian off the Scilly Isles while sailing into Avonmouth. Survivors many American were brought ashore at Cardiff. 

The liner tried to outrun the submarine but failed. As a result the Armenian’s crew were forced to surrender and were allowed into the lifeboats before the U-boat fired two torpedoes into her and the vessel sank. Twenty people dies during the ordeal

Following Lloyd George’s call for munitions, it was announced that over three thousand people from Salford and Manchester had been recruited and at the munitions department at the Manchester school of technology,orders were coming thru with commendable rapidity with specimen shells of the type required for both the army and the navy.

Across the country more than sixty seven thousand were said to have enrolled.

George Wall the Manchester United and England forward put in an appearance at the Town Hall joining the 11th battalion of the Royal Highlanders better know as the Black watch.he was joined by another United Player A.Potts who enlisted in the Manchester regiment.

Manchester’s recruiting numbers had lowered considerably over the past month, an appeal for two hundred and fifty men for the Manchester company of Bantam Pals had so far only seen about a fifth of the number answer the call.

Later that week Lord Kitchener would speak at the London Guild Hall calling for more men to enlist saying that the position today was a serious as is was ten months earlier.

There was a fire at the Ship Canal dock with part of a warehouse at Dock 8 being destroyed.The warehouse was one of the oldest at the dock and the seven story building had been built with wooden floors

The people of Manchester were urged to keep eating last year’s crop of potatoes before starting to consume the summers new variety.A message from the President of the board of agriculture said that eating the new crop was a waste of resources and they should be left in the ground where they would increase considerably in weight.

Six well dressed boys appeared before city magistrates charged with willfully breaking a street lamp in Blackley. The prosecution said that this sort of behaviour was getting common in the city. The boys aged between 12-14 were fined two shillings and ordered to pay the costs between them.

A Marple man claimed that the shock of seeing women porters in their new uniforms at the railway station made him forgot to buy a thicket for his journey into Manchester.He was fined ten shillings.

Samuel Kirkpatrick of Urmston Dt Leigh was fined twenty one shillings for being drink and disorderly and damaging a rug.He was found at the vice rage drunk and saying that he wanted to sign the pledge.When the police arrived he smashed some windows and was locking up when he torn up the rug and his own clothes to shreds.He told the court that it was Leigh holiday week and this was his form of holiday making.

Lewis’s sale was on in the centre of Manchester with early morning bargains advertised for those who showed before one o clock Amongst the bargains Ladiees dress skirts and summer coats, and children’s overalls.

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