Daily Mirror dated Saturday August 31st
1929
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At the end of the First World War the Treaty of
Versailles stipulated that the Rhineland would be off-limits to the German
military and up until 1935 a combined force of British, American, Belgian and
French soldiers would police the area. In fact the Americans evacuated their
troops in 1923 and the last to leave were the French in 1930. The idea of the
occupation was to ensure that Germany could not use the Rhineland industrial
infrastructure to re-arm. In March 1936 Hitler ordered the remilitarization of
the Rhineland.
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Jewish access to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was at the
root of the violence that broke out in August 1929 between Arabs and Jews in
Palestine. From the 23rd to the 29th of that month 133 Jews were
killed by Arabs and 339 Jews injured, 110 Arabs were killed and 232 Arabs
injured. Many of the Arabs were shot by
the British Police who were trying to restore order. The nasty massacre at Safed marked the end of this particular outbreak of Arab/Jewish hostility.
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Movietone pioneered sound newsreels from 1928 onwards.
Ramsay MacDonald and Herbert Hoover met at the President’s
retreat in Virginia in October 1929. They didn’t solve the World’s armaments
problems.
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After the fire, which gutted Dorset’s Lulworth Castle on August 29th it was left empty and exposed to the elements until the
1970’s when English Heritage started a restoration effort that was finally
completed in 1998.
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Not exactly the Great Train Robbery but literally a wages
snatch.
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I think the photo is of the new Morris Isis-Six, which
replaced the Morris Six, which had been around since 1920.
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Lots of bargains here if only one had a time
machine.
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Rather than get married, surely it would have been easier
for this 84 year-old woman to just leave all her property to the young man in
her will.
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I know little or nothing about fashion but the lady on the
left of the top picture looks suspiciously like a time traveller from the
1980’s to me. Maybe she was there house hunting.
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The U.S. Steamboat Inspection Service Board’s investigation
found that the ‘San Juan’ had changed course in the fog and had cut across the
oil tanker Dodd therefore causing the collision, which claimed the lives of 72
people.
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The race for the Schneider Trophy was a competition for
seaplanes and was run (or flown) in 1913 and annually from 1919 until 1931. In 1929
Richard Waghorn in the Supermarine S6 won with an average speed of 328.64 miles
per hour. Sadly Waghorn was killed 3 years later after parachuting out of a
Hawker Horsley biplane test flight at Farnborough.
R J Mitchell, who is most famous as the designer of the Spitfire,
designed the Supermarine S6.
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Mary Learoyd was strangled in Sedbergh Park,
Ilkley, Yorkshire on August 25th. Nobody was ever convicted of the
murder. It seems that the man arrested in London was actually on his way to
Scotland Yard to present an alibi and clear his name.
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This is something that I think is lacking from modern
newspapers – nicely drawn headers for articles and columns.
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I include this because it reminded me that I used
to frequent Gamages’ Store in High Holborn many years ago and once used their
recording booth to create a vinyl record – now long lost - both the record and the booth.
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