There was a real danger of Manchester’s relief fund committee running out of money and its trustees were appealing for fresh funds.
Sums were being provide to the families of men on active service and the heavy call on their resources had increased with over 4,000 men from the city battalions sent to their training quarters since Xmas.
Greedy farmers were being blamed for the big rise in the price of potatoes.Despite the fact that across the UK, the crop is above average in both quantity and quality, prices had risen nearly one hundred per cent.
It was chocolate week at Lewis’s on Market St with twenty per cent of the proceeds of the Boisselier boxes going to the Fund for Belgium refugees
The Britsih steamer Duward was torpedoed close to the Dutch coast on is way from Leigh to Rotterdam.
All the crew were safely taken to a nearby lightship.According to the Daily Mail, a force of German U boats had left Heligoland days earlier and that “ it was one of these vessels that made the dastardly attack on a harmless trading steamer”
The Evening News reported the case of Mary Lock of Mosside who was charged with aiding and abetting her thirteen year old daughter in collecting money fraudulently on behalf of the British Red Cross to pay the rent on their house.
Both pleaded guilty, the girl,remanded to a boys and girls refuge for a week, the mother was sent to prison for three months.
Withington headed the list for the amount of new houses built in Manchester in 1914, three hundred and thirty two out of a total of seven hundred and forty eight across the city.
Blackley saw ninety four new homes built, the report noted that none were built in Hulme or Gorton while Harpurhey had had none built for four years.
That weekend’s football had seen Manchester City beat Bolton at Hyde road in front of a large crowd which included one hundred and fifty English and Belgian wounded soldiers. Manchester United drew 3-3 with Blackburn Rovers
