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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 20, 1934
Page
3
A busy page advertises monster bargains at Dans featuring LADIES' PLAIN HAIRCORD FROCKS in Lemon Apricot Blue and Green plus FLORAL POPLIN and VOILE FROCKS with trimmed collars caps and pleats. Also showcases LADIES' PANAMA HATS GLAZED LACE PANAMA HATS and other accessories, all sizes and colors.
A German code expert deciphers wartime wireless messages, revealing a British destroyer report to the Admiralty about a minefield west of the Orkneys. The Hampshire struck a mine, sank, and killed Lord Kitchener and most of the crew. German records note mine-laying submarines aimed at British ships to hinder attacks on the German fleet.
February 18 reports say Albert I of Belgium was killed while attempting a lone ascent on the Rocher de Marche des Dames near Namur. After a nine hour search, his body was found at a 2 a.m. recovery, the king dying instantly when a hold split during the ascent. The obituary notes his heroism in 1914 and his birth in 1875.
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