Special Council meeting of 5 June 1917

 “240. The President reported that, at the request of the Prime Minister, he had become a member of the Coal Conservation Sub-Committee of the Reconstruction Committee.”

Council meeting of 14 June 1917

“245. A cablegram was read from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in reply to the message from the Institution in connection with the entry of the American Nation into the War (see minute nos. 203, 26 April, and 225(c) 17 May 1917).

It was agreed that the two messages be communicated to the press.”