While it was decided that all hunting in Cheshire should be abandoned for the season, the banks reopened in Manchester for the first time in a week.
The people were praised for ‘not precipitating either a unseemly rush or nor excitement’ as while busier than normal there was little queuing. The Cotton Exchange also opened its doors.
The Stockport Wakes were under way but may people were heeding the advice of stopping at home.
Smithfield Market was was quieter than usual on what was normally its busiest day a Friday. It was expected, said one trader, that the higher price of sugar will reduce the purchase of fruit for jamming.
The Chief constable of Manchester received instructions from London to begin the registration process for foreigners. All alien enemies had to register at the Town Hall.
The news from Belgium was that the attack on Liege had come to a halt and the German army had asked for a 24 hour armistice, while the first British casualties of the war were announced after the cruiser HMS Amphion stuck a mine with the loss of one hundred and thirty one lives.
The ship had been dispatched to intercept a German mine laying ship in the North Sea and having sunk the Konigin Luise, it itself struck a mine on the way back to port.Twenty German prisoners of war rescued from the Konigin were among the casualties.
