—In the King's Bench Division, a compulsory winding-up order was made for the National Penny Bank. The Government enabled the Bank of England to render assistance, whereby depositors were paid 5s. in the pound at once. The management of the Bank was officially declared (Nov. 5) to have been unsatisfactory.
1. Announcement that seven German merchant steamers and a gunboat had been captured by H.M.S. Cumberland off the Cameroons.
2. The Admiralty announced that a minefield for defensive purposes had been laid in the North Sea.
—On the Highland Railway, the mail train caught fire; the guard was injured and sixty mailbags destroyed.
—On the arrival of the steamship Komagata Maru from Vancouver at Budge Budge, near Calcutta, with British Indians who had been refused admittance to British Columbia, some of the emigrants attempted to walk to Calcutta instead of proceeding direct by train to the Punjaub. Eventually they fired on the police, killing one and wounding others, and were fired upon by troops; sixteen rioters and two spectators were killed. (See For. and Col. Hist., Chap. V.)
5. Exactly two months from its commencement, the National Relief Fund reached 3,000,000l.
6. Off Schiermonnikoog, H.M.S. Submarine E 5 sunk the German destroyer S 179; most of the crew of the latter were reported saved.
—President Poincaré visited Sir John French's headquarters and exchanged congratulatory telegrams with the King.
7-8. The bombardment of Antwerp began at midnight.
9. Fall of Antwerp. (See For. Hist., Chap. IV.)