IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1321.—Dante died. 1737. —Haydn born. ' 1805. —Nelson left England for the last time. 1812. —Burning of Moscow commenced. j 1852. — Death of the Duke of Welling* (ton. 1 1854.—Allied troops landed at Crimea, j 1857.—Storming of Delhi, i 1882. —Egyptian War; Cairo occm pied by British troops. 1901. —President M'Kinley died from wounds received eight days earlier. , 1922. —Turkish troops, after captur-. ing Smyrna from Greeks, destroy city by fire and slaughter non-Moslem inhabitants. 1923.-—Dempsey beat Firpo in world’* heavy-weight title bout. Spanish insurgents have entered San Sebastian unopposed. ( Shops looted in the fashionable quarter. Siege of Madrid from a military point of view regarded as impossible. 1 Anti-Russian tirades continue in Germany. Startling announcement from Herr Hitler considered possible. Violent sandstorm sweeps Melbourne, A boy and a woman killed by falling tree. Mysterious sabotage attempts on . ships of United States Navy. Amenities schemes suggested in England to commemorate the Coronation, It is proposed to preserve 300 acres of Sussex downland as a memorial ta Mr Rudyard Kipling. The Transport Board has ordered 500 new buses for London, the biggest single order ever given. A Leicester woman was so stout that she could not enter the jury box. She was excused from serving. British magistrates have given order* I separating 16.000 married couples durI ing the past year. I German manufacturers are now making evening socks with a cellophane stripe to give a sparkling effect. A watch dog belonging to a Hungarian has given birth to 26 puppies, j This is claimed' a record.