It was the start of the last month of peace Europe would know for over four and a quarter years, not that there was any hint that this might be the case in today’s paper. The reporting of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination continued with “a painful scene” as his children were informed (page 11) and Herbert Asquith moving in the Commons an address “to express the indignation and deep concern with which this House has learned of the assassination” and “their abhorrence of the crime and profound sympathy with the Imperial and Royal family and with the Governments and peoples of the dual Monarchy” - but matters closer to home seemed to be preoccupying the paper more.