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• January 10th - Martial Law declared in Spain after attempted revolution
• January 30th - President von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany
• February 16th - England won the Ashes at end of the controversial 'Bodyline' tour.
  Harold Larwood in a team captained by Douglas Jardine was accused by the Australians of 'body line' bowling,
  some said that opinion was so strong that Australia might withdraw from the Commonwealth!
• February 25th - Japan left the League of Nations after censure over Manchuria
• February 27th - Reichstag fire used by Hitler to crush political opposition
• March - Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as President of the USA,
  the banking system had collapsed and 13 million Americans were unemployed
  and Mr Joseph Kennedy (father of John F Kennedy) was given power to curb the excesses of speculation
• March - New Land speed record set by Sir Malcolm Campbell of 272mph , in Florida
• March 15th - Third Reich proclaimed by Hitler against background of terror
• March 23rd - Powers of dictator adopted by Hitler through Enabling Act
• March 28th - The persecution of the Jews in Germany entered a new phase
  when it was decreed that Jewish shop goods and professions should be boycotted.
• May - Monaco grand prix Alfa Romeo driven by Nuvolari (he lost the race to a Bugatti)
• May 8th - In Nevada, USA the first execution by Gas Chamber took place
• May 10th - Nazis burn books judged to be 'un-German' in Berlin
• May 21st - Non-aggression pact agreed by Britain,Italy, Germany and France
• October 14th - Germany left League of Nations
• December 5th - Prohibition ended in USA
• Super 1933 homes, Barnehurst Park Estate, Kent - �395 freehold 9/6 weekly
• The death of Sir Frederick Royce
• Wimbledon - Helen Wills Moody won the women's singles
  for the sixth time in seven years, defeating Dorothy Round over 3 sets
• Prohibition repealed in the USA

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January 7th

The Wonders of the Tutankhamen Shrines Revealed
Photo of Mr Tielman Roos
Picture story of lions in Transvaal, Kruger National Park
Difficulites of Australian Sheep-Farming
Flight in the Himalayas: R.A.F. Day Bombers under command of Flight-Lieutenant F. H. Isaac; Harts with Kestrel engines
Professor Teschner of Vienna Puppet Show
Photo of construction of Mettur Dam in South India
The Snow Owl by W P Pycraft
Anti-airbomb Architecture: safety Building and Time Planning
"Sound Detectors" in Japan - Aero-detectors resemble 4 huge trumpets
The MCC - cricket in Australia
VIPs the New Year List - Hobday, Maclagan, Stenson Cooke, Alcock, Clayton, Rennell Rodd, Sir Walter and Lady Runciman, Horder et al
Living "fossils" from Lake Ohrid
The Carlton House Terrace Dispute
Chinese and Japanese Centres in Manchukua
Miniature Model Hospital for King Edward's Hospital Fund 3/4 inch to one foot
Sir William Orpen - The Holy Well
A Casanova Mystery
Collectors: Urn Tables
Art of the Postage Stamp
Chronicle of the Car - the Lastest 16-60-H.P. Humber saloon

February 11th

No 4895 Vol 182 - about 40pages
Articles - Photos Include:
Prof Claude Schaeffer - Ras Shamra in Syria
Breathing Apparatus for Climbing Mt Everest
Good Boom in South Africa
The Irish Railway Strike
Concerning Woodcock

Personalities of the week;

Flyer PGT Rodd, Hitler Cabinet, Herr Fustav Lilienthal pioneer of flying, General Sandino , Ernst Herzfeld,
Old-Time Chinese Theatre - colour photos
Color Centerfold - TIGER SHOOTING from painting by F T Daws
Color Aristocrats
War Film ""Morgenrot" - U-boat vs "Q"-ship
Southern Cross to Pole Star by horseback Mr AF Tschifferely, Mancha and Gato
photos of the Fairey Monoplane, Royal Society Mond Laboratory, crash of Commander Rodd in St Moritz, "De Zeven Provincien" battlechip, explosion at Ranualt Motor Car workds
The Japanese in Shanhaikwan
Tallulah Bankhear and Robert Montgomery
D iggings at Persepolis

February 18th

Some other features in this issue, also generously illustrated:

* The record non-stop Royal Air Force flight from England to South Africa, over 5,300 miles, in a Fairey-Napier monoplane

* Austria's first mail-carrying glider

* A massive gas container explosion at Neunkirchen, Germany devastates the town

* British Boer War scenes reconstructed in Hollywood for the film "Cavalcade"

* The "Cock Pit" -- oldest house in Eton, England, where Charles II enjoyed watching cock-fights

* The three French Reigns Exhibition: masterpieces on display at Park Lane

* Sabre-tooth and lion-like cats: skeletons found in Los Angeles asphalt

* The 'aristocrats' of dogs and the 'champion of champions'

March 11th

Vol. 182, No. 4899

44 pages

GENERAL TANG YU-LIN [Chinese Governor of Jehol]
The late ROBERT RADFORD [Bass singer]
SIR PHILIP CHETWODE [Field Marshal]
The Late SOLOMONI KA DINIZULU [Titular King of the Zulus]
THE KING visiting the New Victoria Theatre
SIR IAN HAMILTON [Rector of Edinburgh University]
CAPTAIN ANTHONY EDEN [Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs]
C. BOETTCHER [kidnapped, then released in Denver]
The late MAYOR CERMAK of CHICAGO
LADY LINDSAY [wife of New York British Ambassador]
A.R. DYER [London Fire Brigade]
L.C.B. BOWKER [City Remembrancer and ex-footballer]
FRANCES PERKINS [Secretary of Labour in U.S. Cabinet]

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 April 1st - VOL- 182 - Issue - 4902

Our Notebook by G. K. Chesterton - Photos of:
In the Large Gallery on the Second Floor at the National Portrait Gallery
The Gift of Lord Duveen of Millbank
Public Enemies: Criminals and Politicians - Denis Tilden Lynch and Limey, by James Spenser - Photos of:
The Scene after Twelve Mile Running Fight Between Police and Gunmen in New York
Sidney Street Siege

The World of Science: Concerning the Panda: A Little Puzzle for the Evolutionist - W.P. Pycraft - Photos of:
Cat Bear or Panda
Skull of Panda
Ring Tailed Lemur

S.O.S.: The Prince in Scotland on Social Service / Comyns Beaumont / Illustrated by Bryan De Grineau

Books of the Day - C.E.B. - Photos of: The LCCs Defence of Westminster Against Spoliation by New Buildings

The Musk Rat Menace: The New Method of Probing and Trapping - Dr. A. Pustet - Illustrated - Photos of:
Herr Roith Investigating a Bank Burrow
Herr Roith with a number of Catches
Cage Traps

The World of the Theatre - J.T. Grein / Photos of:
Marie Ney, Kynaston Reeves
Marie Ney as Stella
James Cagney

A Page for Collectors: Glass and Silver Candlesticks - Frank Davis - Photos

The Chronicle of the Car - H. Thornton Rutter - Photos of:
Triumph Ten
Rover Pilot Fourteen Saloon


To Go Aloft is Part of the Duty of Every Seaman-Fleet Orders

Holder of an Office Affected by the India Scheme: The Viceroy
The Present Viceroy, the Lord Willingdon with Lady Willingdon on the Lahore Racecourse
Lord and Lady Willingdon and sons of Ruling Pages

Leticia-Disputed Amazon Territory
Settlement of Leticia
Port at Leticia
View of the Main Street Looking South

Earthquake and Tidal Wave in Japan
Devastation at Kamaishi
Immense Clouds of Smoke from Widespread Fires

The Opening of the Holy Door: A Papal Ceremony for April 1
The Door as Closed in 1926-St. Peters at Rome
Ceremony of Closing the Door
Pope Pius Closing the Holy Door
Illustrations of:
Christmas Eve 1924-Pope Pius XI Performing Similar Ceremony
Inauguration of a Holy Year in 1750

Personalities of the Week: People in the Public Eye
Mr. Victor Smith
The Maharajah of Patiala
Lt. Col. A.W. Alcock
Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Shaw, Sir Robert and G.B.S. with HO Tung at Hong Kong
Mrs. George Lansbury
Professor J.M. Thomson
Professor J.H. Breasted with Wife
Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark with her Husband
Mr. Roger Fry
British Polar Year Expedition at Fort Rae

The Air Liner Disaster in Belgium: The Wrecked City of Liverpool
The Great Persepolis Discovery: Detail of Superb Sculptures

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Crews 1933: Close Up Studies of Action Expressions

The Japanese in Jehol: A Successful Campaign in Arctic Conditions
A Detachment of Tanks Waiting to Advance
Japanese Infantry on the March in Arctic Conditions
Japanese Infantry Debussing from their Motor Trucks and Motor Cars
An Aeroplane of the Manchukuo Air Transport Co. Dropping Provisions
The General at the Head of the Japanese Sixteenth Infantry Division with his Staff
Japanese Advancing over the Last Rise Before coming in Sight of Jehol
Troops Advancing in Open Order at Tienlungshan
An Artillery Observation Post
Artillerymen at Work
War Correspondent in Manchuria

Three Centuries of Scottish Soldiers: An Exhibition of Painted Statuettes

The Fastest Grand National Won by an American Woman's Horse
Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Kellsboro Jack Winning
The Riderless Apostasy Determined to Persevere to the End
Pelorus Jack with W. Scott up, Which Fell on Landing
Fall of Perlous Jack
W. Scott looking at Mount
Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Seven year Old Gelding

Home News in Pictures
Disastrous Explosion at Gateshead
Fixing a Placard on a Motor Car in London
Lt. Gen. Sir E.A. Altham Taking the Salute at the March Past at Aldershot

The Baillie Stewart Trial
Lt. Norman Baillie Stewart
Lt. Norman Baillie Stewart, Seaforth Highlanders, with his Escort and Counsel
Chatting with Norman Parkes

The Camera as Recorder: News by Photography
Moushold Heath near Norwich
The Windmill on Moushold Heath
The Hyde Abbey Crozier
Signor Mussolini at the Palazzo Venezia
The London Rowing Club Winning for the Eighth Time
The Kenneth Gerald Lifeboat
The President of the Royal Academy and Colleagues

A Tigress Swimming in the Jungle

In the World of Art and Crafts: Pictures and Armour
H.R.H The Prince of Wales D.H. Fox Moth by Norman Wilkinson
Poole Harbour by Algernon Newton
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Andrea Mantegna
The Agony in the Garden by Raphael
Armour of George Clifford
Armour of Anne de Montmorency
Armour of Henry Herbert


Geneva and Disarmament: Derso-Kelen Cartoons of Particular Moment by Derso Kelen

The Air Liner Disaster in Belgium: The Wrecked City of Liverpool by C.H. Davis

Social Service the Prince Encourages: S.O.S. Work on Clydebank by Bryan De Grineau

S.O.S. Work the Prince Arranged To See In Glasgow: Unemployed Men Keeping Fit in a Feudal Setting by Bryan De Grineau

S.O.S. Work the Prince Encourages: Glasgow Unemployed Occupied by Bryan De Grineau

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April 8th
Issue 4903

Our Notebook by G.K. Chesterton Illustrated by Oscar Parkes

The Worlds Biggest Airship Falls into the Sea:
The U.S.N. Akron / Photos of:
Akron
Section of Akron Showing Part of the Fabric Removed to Reveal the Interior

Being an Appreciation of De Valera by Denis Gwynn Illustrated
Mr. and Mrs. De Valera

S.O.S.: Keep the Unemployed Busy by Comyns Beaumont
Hut Building at the Pioneer Grith Fyrd Camp at Godshill, Hampshire
Members Reading a Play

The Mystery Grave of Mapungabwe by F.R. Paver
9 Pictres of Relics of Gold and Burial Places

Note for the Novel Reader: Fiction of the Month
Chester Beatty Collection being Loaded on the an Imperial Airways Machine at Croydon

The World of Science:
Feeding on Ones Own Fat: hibernators and Aestivators by W.P. Pycraft
Fat Tailed Deer
Dormouse
Fat Tailed Desert Mouse

Books of the Day
Lashkar of Mahsud Tribesmen who Has Attacked an Afghan Fort
A Jirga with the Maliks of the Madda Khel Wazirs in Wuzhgai

The World of the Kinema by Michael Orme
George Arliss as Philip and Mrs. Arliss as Queen Wilhelmina
The Gaumont British Film which is Based on the Well Known Play of the Same Name
Diana Wynyard as Laura with Lewis Stone as Her Husband

A page for Collectors: Lampstands-Pieces for the Connoisseur by Frank Davis - Lampstands

The Chronicle of the Car by H. Thornton Rutter

An Easter Appeal
A Corner of One of the Laboratories in the Research Institute at the Cancer Hospital


His Majesty in the Unsaddling Enclosure with the Queen after the Victory of his Colt Limelight

The Air Conquest of Everest:
The Crowning Triumph of British Aviation Above the Worlds Highest Peak
The Houston Westland Biplane
Lord Clydesdale
Lt. Col. L.V.S. Blacker
Lt. D.F. Mcintyre
Mr. S.R. Bonnett
Oxygen Breathing Apparatus
The Everest Group from the Singalela Range-
Showing Everest Behind and just to the Left of the Apparently Highest Peak-Makalu

A Window on the World: News of the Week in Pictures
Pope Assisting at the Elaborate Ceremony of the Opening of the Holy Door at St. Peters
The Holy Door at St. Pauls Lowered by Ropes
The Pope Kneeling in Prayer on The Threshold
The Admiral Scheer Taking the Water at Wilhelmshaven
Commander Von Fischelk Addressing the Crew of the Deutschland
The Recently Designed 7 hp Austin Spraying Truck Compared with a Standard Austin Car
The German Flying Saloon-Suburban Railway

The Nazi Boycott of the Jews: Shops and Offices Put Under Taboo
A Buy only at German Shops Poster on the Window of a Berlin Establishment
Dr. Goebbels
A Picket with a Placard-Germans Defend Yourselves, Dont Buy from Jews
Nazis at a Jewish Shop
Practise of Jewish Professional Men Held Up
The Windows of Israels in the Alexander Platz, Berlin, Crudely Marked with Germans Dont Buy from Jews
The Windows of Heitingers Marked with the Words Jew

Cambridges Tenth Successive Win
The Crews Shooting Hammersmith Bridge
Cambridge Passing the Post at Mortlake
Part of the Crowd Gathered to Watch the Finish

The Great Explosion at Mitcham
An Air View Showing the Wreck of the Chemical Works and of a Number of Neighbouring Cottages
Some of those Who were Rendered Homeless Trying to Salvage Articles of Value from the Ruins
Serving Out Hot Tea from A Salvation Army Van

Thousands of Hindus Bathing in the Pool at Kumbakonam: As they Do Every Twelfth Year, When the Star Maka is in the Ascendant

Drug Smuggling Tricks Detected: Dope Traffic and Egypt
An Axle Box Detached and Opened
Lubricating Pad Underneath which Hashish was Concealed
Saddle
Camel Saddle
Heroin Concealed in a Brass Bedstead
Twenty Five Kilograms of Hashish Hidden in Petrol Tins
Heroin Concealed in the Soles and Heels of Boots

Personalities of the Week: People in the Public Eye
Mr. F.L. Pears
Mr. W.E. Hargrave
Prince of Wales on Social Service in Scotland
Mr. A.D. Blue
Mr. Daniel Radcliffe
Baron Von Schwappenburg with his Wife and Capt. Wassner with Frau Wassner
Mr. Albert Voss
Miss Dorothy Massingham
Mr. J.M. Denwood
Mr. H. Mainwaring
The Jam Sahib of Nawanagar
Sir John Simpson
Mr. L.C.H. Palairet
The Late Lord Chelmsford

Gardens from Plays; Common Sense Kitchens; The Model Farm: The Many Sided Ideal Home Exhibition
6 Photos of Gardens
Sow and her litter
Cow
Luxury Kitchen

The Camera is Recorder: Home News by Photography
Treen Castle
The Logan Rock
Giant Cross at the Site of Guilford Cathedral
A Venetian Glass Goblet
Robot Traffic Control in Trafalgar Square
Boys Among a Jumble of their Possessions saved from the Fire
Their Majestys leaving in an Open Carriage

The Prince of Wales in Social Service in Scotland: A New S.O.S. Call
Glenavon Social Club, Glasgow
Prince of Wales leaving After his visit to the Ex Service Mens Club at Bellshill
The Prince Talking to Mrs. Clamp
The Prince of Wales with the Secretary of the Allotment Scheme
The Prince Passing Through a Cheering Crowd on Arrival at the St. Rollox Mutual Service Club
The Prince Aboard the Ferry Boat with the Earl of Elgin and Lord Provost Buist
Typical Section of Crowd


The Apostle of S.O.S. by Broadcast: An Appeal in Person-Mr. S.P.B. Mais by C.E. Tucker

S.O.S.: Social Service on Behalf of the Unemployed in the South and South West of England by C.E. Turner

A Gobelins of the Famous French Actress, Marie Champmesle, for Whom Raccine Wrote Tragedies:
Remarkable Work by Jans; After a Cartoon by Santerre

Air Warfare by Loud Speaker: Cowing Rebels by Verbal Bombs by G.H. Davis

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