While unemployment was still a problem in Manchester, there was now a shortage of labour in some of the trades.

Around three thousand were out of work compared to nearer eight thousand two months previously with demand for workers in the general engineering trades now exceeding supply.

Modern military science had made battles stupid reported the Evening Chronicle.

“ some of the characteristics were certainly foreseen…..that all males of military age except cripples would count, that all the living forces of belligerent nations would be thrown into the war furnace, that the war would attain to the maximum of violence withinn a few weeks that the strain upon nations would be terrible…. That the fighting would be bitter protracted and stubborn and in short the victor would devour the vanquished and then probably die of indigestion.”

The government began to make some concession on the beer duty, Lloyd George announcing that he proposed a rebate of two shillings a barrel up to March 1916

The first British Air raids on German Zeppelin factory were announced two hundred and twenty miles into Germany.

The machines used in the raid were made in Manchester, the 80 Horse Power gnome engined Avro biplanes.

The raid completely wrecked the workshops in Freidrichshafen, the bombs wee thrown from planes which had followed the course of the Rhine to take them to their target.

It was claimed that the Zeppelins being built there were to be used in an invasion of England

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