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New Zealand Truth, August 1914

Zoom in to read details of this front cover from the lively weekly Truth, dated 29 August 1914. Truthin this period was a fiery left-wing paper. This issue, produced soon after the outbreak of the First World War, attacks the politicians who have drawn the country into the war.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: NZ Truth, 29 August 1914, p.1

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Mark Derby, Newspapers – The heyday of newspapers, 1900–1939, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/43187/new-zealand-truth-august-1914 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 31 October 2013.