The daily casualties from the campaign in Gallipoli continued to mount with the FifthManchester’s being particularly hard hit.

Amongst the dead that week Captain AV Clegg from Littleborough, Lt.Alan Harvey Bacon from Burnage Lane Withington and 2nd Lt.Eric Duckworth from Rochdale.
That week the British Transport the Royal Edward was sunk in the Aegean Sea, the ship was carrying over 1,600 troops and officers including battalions from the Lancashire fusiliers. Over eight hundred troops were drowned.
The White Star liner Arabic was sunk by a German torpedo while sailing from Liverpool to New York that week.The ship that could hold up to 1,900 passengers had only 423 on board including several from Manchester.The liner company reported that all but seven of the passengers and crew had been rescued and had landed at Queenstown. 

Lord Kitchener predicted that the war would last three years writing in the Glasgow Herald. 

“The Germans may get to Paris, but this is not the war of 1870.The French armies will retreat behind the Loire and we shall retreat with them and two years hence Great Britain shall throw the last million men into the scale and win the war.” 

An inquest was heard on the drowning of a Pendleton man Charles Williams employed by Manchester Corporation who was the victim of sewer disaster following a torrential downpour of rain that week.Alomg with fellow worker Jock Thomas, he was swept off his feet when working in the sewer on York Street in Hulme. His body was found later that day, his colleague was still missing presumed drowned. 

The inquest heard that the water in the sewer has risen twelve inches in around four minutes as over three inches of rain fell that afternoon in less than an hour. 

The storms also two boys drown in the River Irk in Collyhurst.Eight year old James Henry Wolley was playing near the waters edge and was swept away by the strong currents as he fell in.A second boy John Madden jumped in to try and reduce him and was also swept away. 

The jury returned the verdict of accidental death. 

Meanwhile one man was killed and another three injured in Pendleton when they were repairing the interior of a furnace at a glassworks when the brick roof collapsed. 

An inquest was held on a Stockport women who died after swallowing a bone. Death was due to acute peritonitis, the jury heard. 

A new novel exhibit opened at Salford Museum, a magnified model of a housefly which showed how the common fly could spread diseases around the home.The exhibition showed flies feeding on a meal of meat and milk as well as examining ingenious ways of catching them. 

A Manchester journalist Theodore Sington was charged under the defence of the realm act over information he had disclosed in an article for an American publication. 

In the article, he had written of Russia being wiped out by the Germans on the Eastern front adding that “we declared war and we feel that it is a huge mistake” 

The prisoner was bailed by the court until the following week. 

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