Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield kills 11. 5 June – All Saints' Church, Breadsall, Derbyshire, gutted by fire, blamed on a suffragette arson attack. 23 June The Royal Naval Air Service is established. Kiel Canal is reopened (following deepening) by the Kaiser: visit of the British Fleet under Sir George Warrender; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought . 29 June – international exhibition opens at the "White City", Ashton Gate, Bristol. It closes on 15 August and the site is used as a military depot. 14 July – the Government of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the House of Lords. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they wish to participate in Home Rule from Dublin. 18–20 July – fleet review by the King at Spithead. 21–24 July – a conference at Buckingham Palace (called by the King on 19 July) fails to resolve differences between Irish unionists and nationalists over Home Rule. 26 July – Howth gun-running: Erskine Childers and his wife Molly sail into Howth in his yacht Asgard and land 2,500 guns for the Irish Volunteers. Troops returning to Dublin, having been called out to assist police in attempting to prevent the Volunteers from moving the arms to the city, fire on a crowd of protestors, killing three; a fourth man dies later from bayonet wounds. 31 July – London Stock Exchange closes until 4 January 1915. 3 August Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, makes a speech which encourages the House of Commons to support going to war with Germany. This evening, looking from the Foreign Office windows, he observes, "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Banks remain closed until 7 August. English language teacher Henry Hadley is shot in an altercation with a Prussian officer on a train at Gelsenkirchen in Germany, dying two days later, just 3 hours after the UK declares war on Germany. 4 August World War I: The German Army invades neutral Belgium. Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire at 23:00 GMT. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the newly designated Grand Fleet, based at Scapa Flow. 5 August – Imperial German Navy minelayer , laying a minefield about off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft), is intercepted by the Royal Navy's 3rd Destroyer Flotilla. Destroyer fires the