There was little information coming from the Western Front during the first week of October.
The western battle line was extending said official reports, in what would be the start of a series of trenches which would eventually extend from the Channel to the Swiss frontier. The papers were relying on French reports as the British military forces were giving little away.
In Manchester the quarter’s sessions of the city opened with twenty seven prisoners up for trial and all but two charged with some form of larceny
Bookings were being taken for a performance of Marie Lloyd at the Ardwick Green Empire.
‘She, said the advertisement, ‘will provide a welcome relief from our terrific actualities of battle . For the health of our minds and bodies we should take care that for a few hours daily our thoughts are distracted Marie Lloyd will help you’
The debate abiut where to barrack the Fourth Battalion continued in the papers. Suggestions had included Belle Vue but now Peel Park in Walkden was being suggested.
‘Why wait on Liverpool’ said the headline in the Evening News. Its subject was the unfortunate cotton operatives
‘the thousand men and women accustomed to the daily life of the mill who are idle and know nothing as to when the engine will start moving again.
These were the words of the spinners union secretary who added that:
‘The cream of the cotton trade seems to be taken off the business before it comes into the hands of the Lancashire cotton employers and operatives , an extraordinary state of affairs but there is no getting away from the fact that the speculator in Liverpool makes sure of his own profit before the spinner and manufacturer get a look in
An Alsatian lady of French parentage now living in Manchester received a letter from her mother in Mullhouse who told her that since war broke out there were only two days when the guns had not been firing.
Every man, aged 17-45 whether married or not had been called up and every business closed
‘we do not know what we are going to do this winter’ she added , ‘no money no work,no food and no men, there were already eight hundred widows in the town as a result of the war.’
An inquest was held on a Stockport women who burnt to death.
Her daughter returned home to find the house in Sandy Lane, full of smoke and found her mother lying near the bedroom door with her nightdress on fire and the carpet in flames .
The women it appeared had pulled open the curtain in her bedroom and it had caught fire on a gas stove.A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
