IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —Wellington won his first great battle at Assayc. 1874. —Dunedin Club purchased 1 era--1876.—1r0n produced from iron sand at New Plymouth. ' . 1888 —Death of Marshal Bazame, who surrendered Metz to the German* in 1873. • , 1889.—Wilkie Collms, novelist, died. 1905.—Separation of Sweden and ; Norway agreed to.. . 1914. —hirst British air raid on Ger-* many. 1918.—Capture of Acre. Spanish rebels capture Maqueda at junction of main roads to Madrid and Toledo. . „ Government troops preparing Verdun line.” , . ~ Singapore strikers have nearly all returned to work . . British and Norwegian Government* agree on measures to prevent excessive diminution ot whales. . Twenty wireless stations are being erected on route of Empire flying boats. Torrential, rainstorm in England. Dover plunged into darkness. New Zealand runner, Lovelock, ar» rives in America on board liner Queen Mary. Will race at Princeton on OctoAII civil air services in Italian colonies have- been placed under tbe control of the Air Ministry in Rome. The name of the capital or the Dev minican Republic has been changed from Santo Domingo to Ciudad Truiillo. Mr Frank Hobson, aged 54, who had farmed in Kenya for 32 years, died there recently from stings by a swarm of bees. Thirty-five persons, chiefly women, were killed in a recent fire in the offices of the Ttalo-Chilean Cinema Company at Santiago.