IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1217. —First treaty between France and England. 1709.—Battle of Malplaquet. 1803.—Delhi captured by General Lake. 1900.—Potchfestroom captured by General Hart. 1928.—Southern Cross (Captain Kingsford Smith) crossed Tasman in 14 hours, landing at Sockburn. Nazis intensify aerial onslaught on London. Enemy raiders drop all pretence of attacking military objectives and scatter high explosives at random. Bombs fall in heart of city. • Famous churches endangered. British people unshaken by trial of merciless bombardment. Warm tributes from neutral observers. General do Gaulle’s scathing comment on Vichy’s “ monstrous ” trial. German armament industries being shifted from Rhineland to Czccho-Slovakia to escape hammer blows of R.A.F. Deadlock in Franco-Japanese negotiations on Indo-China. Threat of famine in unoccupied France. Nazis doing nothing to help. American Red Cross makes generous contributions to relieve distress in bombed areas in Britain.
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Evening Star, Issue 23678, 11 September 1940, Page 1
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135IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 23678, 11 September 1940, Page 1
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