As October dawned, A letter to the Manchester Evening News exhorted the virtues of continuing to learn German in the current conflict:
to whatever extent we succeed in smashing Germany politically, we cannot neatly smash their trade and we would be doing infinite damage to ourselves if we did -only by changing the whole German character could we ever hope to prevent her commerce reviving at the end of the war and entering again into competition with us and surely then the demand will be for Englishman who know German instead of the thousands who have been made heroes employed in this country.
An Altrincham man recounted his experiences of the fighting after returning home wounded. He got through Mons safety and while fighting at the Marne, a piece of shrapnel entered his eye while he was advancing and lying on the ground was trampled by a horse.
He lay unconscious for two hours until a Frenchmen picked him up and drove him to Paris where he was treated in a private hospital. He expected to be back at the font in about a month.
The provision of hot Sunday dinners for three hundred of the cities poor children was announced. They would be fed in restaurants at Deansgate, Cannon St and Fairfield Street with the meals to be provided by a well known restaurant firm in the city.
Twenty eight German prisoners of war were among the third consignment of wounded soldiers that arrived at Mayfield station that day. There were forty six wounded British soldiers , forty four were stretcher cases.
The appearance of the Germans caused much interest among the crowds, the men in their long blue grey overcoats, physically said the reporter, they were not such fine men as the British returnees.
