IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1803. —Wellington won Assaye, bis first great battle. 1874.—Dunedin Club purchased Fernhill. 1876.—First iron produced from ironsand at New Plymouth. 1889.—Death of Marshal Bazainc, who surrendered Metz to the Prussians in 1873. 1889. —Wilkie Collins, novelist, died. 1905.—Separation of Sweden and Norway agreed to. 1914.—First British air raid on Germany. 1918.—Capture of Acre. Royal Air Force continues terrific bombardment of invasion bases. Serious disorganisation of Nazi programme. London undaunted by nightly raids. Terror , tactics fail to shake population. Britain confident of outcome of battle. , Soviet suspicious of Nazi intentions. Troop concentrations on Bessarabian frontier. , Tension mounting in Indo-China. New < Japanese demands apparently rejected. ( Egyptian Cabinet decides to await develop- ' menls. Four pfli-war Ministers resign. King to broadcast to Empire. , Now Zealanders ready for action in West- 1 ern Desert, i Bulgarian troops occupy ceded territory ] of South Dobruja. The Bank of New Zealand has given ‘ £l,ooo‘ to the London relief fund. It will t be allocated among the 11 provincial coun- i eib in proportion to their respective quotas, 1
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Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 1
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174IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 1
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