The Illustrated London News 1912
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"A ship might as well strike a rock"
A giant iceberg akin to that which caused the sinking of the "Titanic"
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The Illustrated London News 1912
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In Britain it was a freeezing winter with many dying from the cold.
Things
were made worse by coal,dock and transport strikes
January 12th - Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole, none of his party survived the return.
March 1st - Window smashing rampage in Londons West end by Suffragettes
April 15th - Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage, 1513 passengers
and crew were drowned and
706 were saved after an SOS mesage was picked up
by the Liner Carpathia
September 28th - Ulster Loyalists determined to fight Home Rule by force
October 1st - First Balkan war - Turkey invaded by Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro
November 5th - Democrat Woodrow Wilson elected 28th president of the USA
March 9th
March 16th
April 6th
April 20th
Titanic disaster number
April 27th
May 4th
May 11th
May 18th
May 25th
Christmas Number
"Her Christmas Box" by Hal Hurst
"Christmas By Injunction" by O. Henry illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo
"The Giant Among the Pigmies:Gulliver in Lilliput" and "The Pigmies Among the Giants: Gulliver in Brobdingnag" illustrated by Andre Devambez
"Unpublished Xmas Cards-Cruikshank,Nicholson,etc."
"The Flying Ship" illustrated by W. Heath Robinson,
"Tsuna and the Beautiful Lady" by Warwick Goble
"Circe" by Edmund Dulac
,"Queen of Sheba" by Edmund Dulac
,"Salome",and "Scherazade" by Edmund Dulac
"The Language of Beasts" and "The Crab and the Monkey" by Edward Detmold,etc.
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