There was a growing movement to raise a Manchester Battalion of City workers with representatives of leading firms meeting up with The Lord Mayor at an event at the town hall to form a thousand strong Manchester platoon.

The death was announced of the Bolton Labour MP AH Gill.

Born in 1864 in Rochdale, he had begun working in the cotton mills at the age of 10 and had quickly established a reputation for improving the conditions in the mill.

Elected chairman of the Crompton Cooperative Society in 1887, he would become general secretary of the Bolton and District operative spinners association later becoming a member of the TuC and elected to Parliament in 1906.

Two men, both described as socialists, were fined and bound over for a breach of the peace in Leigh after shouting ‘up with the Germans and down with the English’ in the street and ‘I wish the Kaiser would kill all the English soldiers.’

Meanwhile a man from Eccles drowned at Blackpool on the south shire after being swept away by strong tides after his companion was unable to reach him

There was welcome news from the war as Winston Churchill announce that the German armed merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm Der grosse had been sunk off the coast of West Africa by HMS Highflyer.

Sir Edward Grey, the foreign Secretary, was forced to explain in the House of Commons his negotiations with the Germans in the run up to war.He was harried by the Labour MP Keir Hardie as to why no record of the Cabinet’s discussions had been written down in the days leading to the outbreak of war.

The Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to the heroics of the Belgium army, as the first batches of British wounded were arriving back in London, although official casualty lists had yet to be released.

There was news of fierce fighting around Lorraine over three days as French forces attempted to stop the German advance but there was little news coming out of the Western Front.

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