War has broken out on the continent as Austria commences its attack on Serbia, after the latter had refused to accept all the conditions demanded by the Imperial Empire.
An escaped prisoner from Pendleton was recaptured near Barnsley in an exhausted condition after absconding from Wakefield, he had had nothing to eat since his escape and had lain on a railway embankment
Twenty three tons of hay were destroyed in a fire at a farm in Dukinfield.
The well known Halle Musican William Henry Whitehead born in Delph in 1827 died at his home in London. He was one of the earliest members of the Halle chorus spoken about by the late Charles Halle as being a reader of music at first sight few could excel and well as being described as a valuable member of the chorus.
The Lord Mayor of Manchester appealed to the city council to do something with the old infirmary site at Piccadilly Gardens , saying that in this matter they where lowering their status in the eyes of the public.
Meanwhile as hostilities had broken out across the Serbian Hungarain frontier, Serbian forces had been driven back said reports, whilst Russia was making ominous preparation with reports that 800,000 of its troops were poised at the Austrian frontier.
Large crowds were on the streets in both Paris and St. Petersburg while Reuters said that the Germans had rejected the offer of a peace conference in London made by the British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey.
The German fleet was returning to its home base and a number of Austrian reservists living in Manchester had been ordered to return to their homeland.
