The rush to join the second battalion was so great that a third would be formed it was announced.
Meanwhile a large number of public school and university men attended the university to hear a statement by the High Master of Manchester Grammar school talk about forming a old public school and university battalion.
He had been given sanction by The Lord Mayor he told the audience and hoped to recruit over 5,000 men.
Manchester Coroner’s court returned a verdict of willful murder of a baby after a child was found in the back yard of a house in Chorlton cum Hardy, the body was wrapped in a parcel and thrown over the wall of a garden
The players, trainers and secretary at Manchester city decided to give five per cent of their wages to the local war fund while Manchester’s tramcars were urging passengers to donate to the city’s relief fund
Forty one arrests were made in Manchester after German aliens had apparently misconstrued the patient of the police.
They were to be removed to the concentration camp at Queensbury and pictures in the papers showed prisoners arriving by wagon at Exchange Station, chained together by the arms being escorted by police with rifles to the platform
A Manchester family had arrived home after traveling back from Rheims in France where they had lived for 15 years.
It had taken them nearly a week with little food or sleep to get back and took seven and a half hours to leave Paris on the last train to leave the city.
With Paris thought to be under imminent attack, they were advised to get to England as soon as possible. While in Paris, they witnessed a German airship flying overhead and dropping bombs.
They eventually reached the channel coast and sailed for Southampton but even then their journey was not over,their ship was fired on by a British man of war.
They had heard stories from refugees of babies having their hands chopped off by German soldiers in Belgium they told the reporter.
There was sensation in Salford as a councillor was charged with manslaughter.Cllr Hind was the landlord of the St James hotel in Martindale street and had tried to throw a drinker out when he refused a request to leave.
There was a struggle in the doorway and the man clinging to the woodwork was thrown into the street where he received a serious injury to the head and never recovered consciousness.
