It was the opening night of the season’s Halle Concerts beginning with the National Anthem played by the complete orchestra conducted by Sir Edward Elgar.
It was announced that the East Lancashire Territorials were stationed in Egypt and were reported to be enjoying the novelty of their situation.
The Lancashire Fusiliers regiment were at a barracks near Cairo. Tragically two of their number had been killed in transit falling out of a train.
A verdict of drowned was returned at the inquest of an unknown man pulled out of the Rochdale canal on Albion street. The man had originally been misidentified as a resident of Hulme as a pay card bearing his name and address had been found on him, but the address was to prove false.
Three young men were in court charged with attempting to obtain money by false pretenses , the three were newspaper vendors overcharging with shouts of news of a great British victory and doubling the selling price from halfpenny to one penny. Each were fined 10s and 6d and costs or 14 days in prison.
Reports were received of the sinking of HMS Hawke in the North Sea , and the early indications were that only three officers and 49 men were reported saved.
( The Hawke sunk after being hit by a single torpedo from the German submarine U-9 which had sunk three British cruisers, a month earlier. Once struck she quickly capsized with the loss of 524 officers and men. Only seventy including the ship’s captain survived.
