The recruits from the Manchester Public School’s Brigade were given a rousing a end off as they left for their training stattion in Epsom.
They assembled in front of crowds at Piccadilly Gardens to the singing of the national anthem before setting off from Mayfield station.
The improvements committee gave the go ahead for the building of a new road from Slade Lane to Cheadle lane to Cheadle at the cost of £200,000. the scheme would provide work to for the many currently unemployed due to the war.
The road, it was announced, would be eighty feet wide and have a middle stretch intended for future tram ways.
Manchester received its first supply of radium for the treatment of cancer at the new radium department which was due to be set up at the Royal Infirmary by the end of October.
A women from West Didsbury described her experiences of being trapped in Germany to the Evening News. Miss Rose Knight, the principle of Albert Park Girls’s school, had left Hamburg by steam ship on the 30th July but the boat was turned around in the North Sea and after cruising for three days returned to port picking up on their day the injured from an oil boat that had hit a mine while returning to London.
She described her experiences including seeing a new map in the shops in Germany which showed France and Belgium as being part of Germany and England being a German colony.
England, she was told, would be invaded by a mass of airships and that the reason for the war were that Engkand had agreed to give Germany to the black and yellow races according to a speech by the Kaiser.
