Another round up of enemy aliens took place across the region as part of a nation wide crackdown.
Reports said 550 people had been detained with one hundred and twelve immediately put on the train to Lancaster to be imprisoned in internment camps.
Considerable interest was taking place in an adjournment hearing at Manchester Police court over the case of a Stretford lady who had married an Austrian man and had been charged with being an unregistered enemy alien.
Her defence argued that as she resided with her father while her husband was abroad and had never been in fact been abroad herself, she should not have to register.
The order, though, said the court, was of vital importance to the country and it was the duty of English Ladies married to foreigners to register.
A man was drowned in the Rochdale canal near Oxford Street having gone for a late night swim with his pals wearing a pair of water wings.
Nineteen year old John William Seaston, who was learning to swim, disappeared after just two minutes and despite two of his friends diving in to rescue him was found drowned.
A Smithfields market retailer was prosecuted for selling putrid rabbit and fish.
The rabbits had arrived frozen from Australia and were described as green and more or less in a state of decomposition while smoked haddock that be was selling was also found to be putrid. The trader was fined a total of £8 plus costs
It was announced that the issue of uniforms and kit to the City Battalion at Heaton Park was almost complete, so far over 1,500 men had been kitted out.
The latest reports from the front was that German efforts to drive back the allies had failed while British warships were firing at the enemy from off the German coast.
A report from a Dutch report said that Antwerp that only a few hundred German soldiers were stationed there and reinforcements were being sent to the front while there were unconfirmed reports that the allies had recaptured Lille.
A letter from a Salford man fighting with the 2nd Manchester’s told of the death of Edward Seal ,a former member of Salford police force.
The writer was in hospital recovering from his wounds but described how Seal and four other men kept the enemy at bay for four hours with maxim guns
Sealhad seven shots in him when found-what a noble death, god rest his soul”
