There were more casualties from the battles of Gallipoli, four killed and 22 missing in one day from the seventh Manchester’s, twenty one killed in the East Lancs Territorials
Members of the crew of the Manchester stemware Ellesmere returned with tales of. Sing shelled by a u boat in St George’s channel while returning from Valencia. Armed with a single gun the captain refused to surrender and continually zigzagged until a tenth shell destroyed the wheel house.
The men spent two hours in the lifeboat before being picked up by a patrol boat and taken to Pembroke.
It was the week of Manchester assizes and among the cases being heard were a boy aged five teen charged with manslaughter, a member of a company of Boy Scouts who were drilling and annoyed by the shouts of others in jest later borrowers a rifle and ammunition and shot dead one of the group, and a postman charged with stealing letters.
The case against the Boy Scout would be thrown out after just two days by the jury.
A huge fire at Trafford Park with a building containing 12,000 bales of cotton going up in smoke and most of the contents destroyed at an estimated cost of £200,000.
This was the sixth outbreak in a cotton warehouse in the last three month and there was speculation as to whether there were links.It was suggested that the cotton which was for government use had explore or some other combustible product packed within it.
The fire brigade refuted the allegation saying the most likely cause in this case was an electrical fault.
The subject of rent raising across Manchester was in the news.” The landlords hand is forced” said a well known estate agent, “with higher rates to pay and increased charges to meet in every other direction, he must raise the rent of the house unless he is to lose money”
It was Bastille day and the French flag was flown across Manchester ahead of the city’s Flag day at the end of the month to raise money for the people in the devastated parts of France.The flag flew from the Tiwn Hall and other corporation buildings and the Manchestrr City Police band played the Marseillaise in Albert Square to rousing cheers.
An article in the Times brought home to the population that the war was going to continue for some time as the first anniversary of the outbreak approached.The author concluded that the fighting would continue for another two years with the possibility of a still longer struggle.
A letter to the Manchester Evening News from Fred Hargreaves of the Crippled Children’s help society based in Cross Street.
The thoughts of many of your readers will be centered upon the forthcoming holidays and the change to seaside and country air.May we again ask for help in providing spinal carriages and bath chairs to enable some of the c rippled children to enter the sunshine even on our city streets. We have many children out of a register of 1,100 who are quite unable to leave their homes and to whom free air would be an inestimable boom
