More recruiting stations were opening in Manchester as the headquarters in Victoria Street could no longer cope with the influx of volunteers.
Ardwick and Cross Lane Drill Halls were now being used.
But as more and more unemployed married men took the kings shilling, there were distressing scenes at the Labour Exchanged with tales of poverty and tears as their wives tried to get unemployment benefit without the required written authority of their husbands.
It was the start of the Eccles wakes week but many people reported the Evening News, would have to forgo their week in Blackpool particularly those who had been laid off in the textile industry.
British reinforcements were on their way to France, two new divisions were on their way as well as troops to India.It was expected that the 16,000 Territorials in Lancs would also soon be moving but this would be under sealed orders with their destinations not announced.
There was anger in Manchester after a Boy Scout played a hoax on the police after he produced a letter purporting to be signed by a German that there would be a raid on Clayton railway viaduct.
The scout claimed that he had been accosted by two men who knocked him to the ground and found himself bound and gagged before revealing that he had made the whole thing up.
A five-teen year old train checker from Moss side was seriously injured at central station when knocked onto the line by a passing engine while standing at the edge of the platform-he sustained a fractured skull and was in a critical condition at the infirmary.
The news from the front was that the Allied Armies in Northern France had withdrawn to the higher ground Cateau Cambri Line in the face of heavy German advances.
There were reports of German Calvary units breaking through French Lines at Arras and now heading for Paris through the Pais De Calais.
More British wounded from Mons had arrived at Boulogne.The correspondent of the London Times reported thirty in all, most with wounds to the legs, whilst more British troops had landed at Ostend.
