Do You Remember: Local Activities Twenty-Five Years Ago: October 5th, 1914: The National Relief Fund reached three million pounds: of this, Birmingham contributed over eighty thousand. The First City Battalion began training at Sutton Coldfield. Major Fleming and Captains Hilton, Robinson and Cook were in command of companies. Mr. Hume Pinsent, giving the last of the series of lectures arranged by the University of Birmingham, said England must fight, and must join with other independent European States in fighting the foe which threatened to crush the weaker nations and to stifle the free development of all other peoples. It was stated that about £50,000 was owed by German and Austrian traders to firms in membership with the Walsall and District Chamber of Commerce.
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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920