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- ↑ "Hall Caine's Task". Shields Daily News. 10 November 1917. p. 4.
- ↑ "Sir Hall Caine's propaganda film destroyed". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 19 June 1918. p. 4.
- ↑ Slide 2015
- ↑ Allen p.366-367
