- Mayor of Orange, ET McNeilly invites residents to a public meeting to form a local recruiting committee
- Sergeant Craske of the 19th Battalion describes the events surrounding Herbert Henry Argall’s death. The Late Bert Argall
- A military secretary of the YMCA appeals for food and cigarettes for comfort packs for Australian soldiers in France. He says that the weather is atrocious and describes the war as “hell, pure and unadulterated“. Anzacs In France – Winter Comforts Needed
- The London Gazette Supplement publishes General Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch on the Somme Battle
- The Anglo-French Conference concludes in London, after discussions lasting three days
- Russian monk and political advisor Grigori Rasputin is assassinated at Yusupovsky Palace in Petrograd. Rasputin – The Man Behind The Tsarina
- The Leader publishes the prospectus of Another War Loan
