but implementation of both is postponed for the duration of World War I by the simultaneous Suspensory Act. The Government of Ireland Act in practice never comes into effect in its original form, and Welsh disestablishment is deferred until 1920. 20 September – in a speech at Woodenbridge, County Wicklow, John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, calls on members of the Irish Volunteers to enlist in the National Volunteers as part of the British New Army. The majority do so, fighting in the 10th and 16th (Irish) Division alongside their Ulster Volunteer counterparts from the 36th (Ulster) Division (formed this month); the rump Irish Volunteers split off on 24 September. 22 September – World War I: Action of 22 September 1914: German submarine U-9 torpedoes three Royal Navy armoured cruisers, Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, with the death of more than 1,400 men, in the North Sea. 8 October – "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (music by Ivor Novello; words by Lena Guilbert Ford) is first published (as "'Till the Boys Come Home") in London. 14 October – World War I: the Canadian Expeditionary Force arrives on 32 ocean liners in Plymouth Sound. 15 October – World War I: is torpedoed by German submarine U-9 in the North Sea and sinks in less than 10 minutes with the loss of 524 lives. 17 October – London anti-German riots break out in Deptford. 19 October–22 November – World War I: First Battle of Ypres: British and French forces are victorious against the Germans at Ypres in Belgium. 27 October – World War I: the British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin, a loss not officially admitted until the end of the war. 30 October – the , requisitioned as a military hospital ship, is lost by grounding in a storm on rocks off Whitby with the loss of 85 lives. 1 November – World War I: Battle of Coronel fought – a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met in the eastern Pacific and defeated by superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee in the first British naval defeat of the war, resulting in the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth and 1,660 fatalities (including Cradock). 3 November – World War I: German