The Russian Revolution still dominates the news (pages 7 and 8) as “never was any country in the world so interesting as Russia is now” according to one of the reports on the former page. Meanwhile back in the UK Herbert Asquith and Winston Churchill defend the decision to launch the Dardanelles Campaign as the Commons debates the report of the Dardanelles Commission. Also in the political sphere a leader on page 6 greets the creation of an Imperial Cabinet with what is becoming typical hyperbole – “Yesterday will stand in the history of our time as the date of departure of a momentous change in the political organisation of our empire” And on the Western Front another 14 villages could celebrate being cleared of the enemy (page 7).