The rush to join the fifth Manchester Battalion today saw, said the Evening News, a return to the conditions that were prevailing when the recruiting boom was at its height.
Six hundred new potential recruits had registered that day so far with a thousand expected before the recruiting offices closed that night.
Mystery surrounded the death of a women in Rochdale, fifty year old Annie Carrol was found dead lying on her bed with her night attire on. It was believed that she had been gassed but the house had no gas supply, however there had been an escape of gas in the neighbourhood.
Winter was on the way, over a foot of snow fell in Bakewell Derbyshire overnight and across parts of Yorkshire and the Lake District.
The latest news from the front was that fighting had diminished over the last few days with attacks by German troops confined to artillery while a snow blizzard had raged across Flanders that morning
At a meeting of Manchester’s education committee that day, the chairman announced that in the next twelve months he expected to see the completion of three new elementary schools, Heald Place, Rusholme,Old Hall Drive in Gorton and Nansen Street.Further projects were to begin in Cheetham, Crowcroft Par and Chorlton Cum Hardy as well as opening technical classes for boys in Newton Heath.
A Rochdale women who celebrated her 100 birthday believed to be the oldest lady in Lancashire gave her verdict on the Kaiser, Mrs Diggle said to be in full possession of her faculties claimed that the devil had got hold of him.
