The most wonderful of liners which made the most wonderful of transatlantic passages:
A sectional plan of the interior of the "Mauretania"

March 10th - First Hollywood film released; Griffith's In Old California

May 6th - Death of Edward VII and is succeeded by George V

May - Halley's Comet

July 31st - Dr Crippen arrested at sea for murder

Mount Etna erupted,

Cholera epidemic in Russia

Liberals win general election in Britain

South Africa becomes a dominion - Louis Botha becomes premier

Post impressionist exhibition in London

Florence Nightingale dies, aged 90

Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina Count Leo Tolstoy died aged 82

344 miners died in a coal mining disaster at Hulton Lancashire and 136 at Wellington pit Whitehaven ,

March 19th 1910

A full page advert for the Hyde Park Hotel -outside back cover

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