Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• 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• Prohibition repealed in the USA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 2390 Vol 92 - 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

• Construction of the new British Empire Building in New York City. The story about this development is four pages long. Built to promote England, its culture and commerce, the British Empire Building continues to stand today at 620 5th Avenue, not far from the well known 'Saks' store.

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

• Full page drawing by C.E. Turner of the Inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosvelt taking Oath of Office on Capitol Hill, Washington on March 4th. Taken from a telegraphed photo from the States
• CAPTAIN GORING, Reich Commissioner taking the salute in Unter Den Linden, at a propoganda Nazi march-past
  Full page of 7 photos of Franklin Delano Roosvelt
• Jehol and Manchuria. Life and landscape in the Province taken from China by the Japanese.
• Yellow Republic - from Coolie to Priest. The Fundamental China - Unhurrying, Rooted in it's Peasantry
• 2 English Sovereign portraits offered to The National Portrait Gallery by Lord Dillon - QUEEN ELIZABETH - KING CHARLES I
• Sir Malcolm Campbell passing the timing tower at 270 mph. Breaking the land speed record at Daytona, being raised by his Mechanics after breaking the record
• Damaged Danish motor-freighter 'Bretagne' off the Hook of Holland
• Omagh train crash
• Machynlleth-Barmouth train crash
  MARGUERITE STEEN [novelist]
  DOROTHY L. SAYERS [novelist]
  6 photos of the new discovery in Malta - The Imjar Stone Age Sanctuary
  7 photos over two pages of Bamileke 'Tschindas' tribe. From Bandjou, French Cameroons, Africa
  3 photos on the life of CECIL RHODES
  980 A.D. cathedral found at Amalfi
  MARINUS VAN DER LUBBE [incendiary of the Reichstag]
  Garrison Church at Potsdam
  39 Princes Gate, London [South African High Commissioner]
  Seismograph chart at Kew of the Honshiu Japanese earthquake
  American Airlines new air-liner, with a retractable under-carriage, flying over Los Angeles
  Full page of 8 photos of 'HITLER The Man' - features a photo article entitled THE HUMAN SIDE OF GERMANY'S NAZI CHANCELLOR: HITLER THE MAN: This article features 8 Heinrich Hoffmann photographs of Adolf Hitler in his leiderhosen, feeding baby deer, greeting little children and peasant women: "His face has shed its public mask of severity, and it is seen that he can laugh and enjoy a joke. In company, it is said, he is charming; while his habits are simple and frugal...he is a vegetarian, and does not drink or smoke..." I never realized he was such a choir boy.
  Two pages of photos of 'The German Elections that Resulted in a Nazi Triumph - Berlin Scenes, and Outstanding Personalities'. With PRINCE EITEL FRIEDRICH - PRINCE OSKAR - HERR HUGENBERG - HERR HITLER - COUNT HELLDORF - HERR VON PAPEN - PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG - PRINCE AUGUST WILHELM
  Italian Royal Visit to Egypt [2] - KING VICTOR EMMANUEL - QUEEN ELENA - KING FAUD - PRINCESS MARIA
  Disbanding oldest Indian Regiment [1758] - 1st [King George's Own] Battalion of the Corps of Madras Pioneers at Mandalay
  Goshamahal Baradari at Hyderabad
  PRINCE OF WALES at Windsor
  Two pages of 6 photos from the new Gaumont-British film 'Endurance' about Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916
  3 photos from the stage play 'Jolly Roger' with GEORGE ROBEY - VICTOR ORSINI - MURIEL ANGELUS - CHARLOTTE LEIGH
  Discoveries at Ur of the Chaldees
  2 full page photos showing the new world fashion of flood-lighting - The Illuminated Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon - The Illuminated Leura Falls, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
  Two pages of 8 character sketches by EDMUND BLAMPIED
  Personalities of the Week, in the public eye;

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]
Adverts = Douglas Stuart Bookmaker - full colour page
Haig whisky - full page
Castrol Oil - full page

August 5th

• Eton and its retiring headmaster.
• Tall ship Parma during her 88 day passage from Australia and a few words about her and the crew, followed by an article about the ships that race in the Cape Horn trade.
• Navies, Fleets old and new. What ships are in service and what is being built.
• Great Britain winning the Davis Cup- from France including pictures of Fred Perry.
• Guarding the North West frontier.
• Cowes week 1933, of The King’s Royal Yacht, Britannia.
• drawings by Edmund Blampied.
• A half page painting by Willem Van De Velde and another beneath by Peter Monamy
• A two page spread of Two Royal Yachts, Victoria and Albert and Britannia, from the water colour by Frank H Mason.
• An Appreciation of ‘Brazilian Adventure’ by Peter Fleming.
• The Mollisons
• The Fourteenth Tidworth Tattoo
• Article and photo of The New ‘Arethusa’ and Royal Hospital School
• A page of photos and an article about the treasures recently found in Hungary.
• earliest Known Aqueduct: Sennacheribs’s Great Engineering Work.
• The World of the Theatre.
• collecting mirrors.
• Chronicle of the Car by H Thornton Rutter

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