CHANGE IN HOLIDAY RESORTS—lnstead of making a great exodus to the Continental resorts which depend largely on British custom, the majority of English holiday-makers are wintering at the better-known south of England resorts this year. This picture was taken in the Valley of the Lyn, Devon, one of the beauty spots of the country.
TUSKS OF PREHISTORIC MAMMOTHS UNEARTHED.—One of tie strangest cargoes that ever came up the River Thames was seen on the floor of a London warehouse recently. It was a shipment of 140 ice-preserved tusks which had been dug up in Northern Siberia. They are estimated to be 50,000 years old, and some of them measured 14 feet from tip to tip.
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Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 7
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115CHANGE IN HOLIDAY RESORTS—lnstead of making a great exodus to the Continental resorts which depend largely on British custom, the majority of English holiday-makers are wintering at the better-known south of England resorts this year. This picture was taken in the Valley of the Lyn, Devon, one of the beauty spots of the country. TUSKS OF PREHISTORIC MAMMOTHS UNEARTHED.—One of tie strangest cargoes that ever came up the River Thames was seen on the floor of a London warehouse recently. It was a shipment of 140 ice-preserved tusks which had been dug up in Northern Siberia. They are estimated to be 50,000 years old, and some of them measured 14 feet from tip to tip. Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 7
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