THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” JANUARY 27, 1913. Lord Charles Beresford, speaking in Birmingham, urged the buying at any cost of five foreign dread-noughts then being built in England, • and the laying down of six new ones in that year. A new Zeppelin airship had been completed, and had travelled for sixteen hours.
The famous painting “Mona Lisa” which, it was reported, had been stolen from the Louvre in Paris, was believed to have been damaged and the story of the robbery circulated in order to save the officials.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 49, 27 January 1943, Page 2
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90THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 49, 27 January 1943, Page 2
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