IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 24285, 28 August 1942, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

•ANNIVERSARIES.

1828.—Count Leo Tolstoy born. 1833.—Liberation of slaves in British colonies. 1846.—Act passed hy Imperial Parliament bv which New Zealand was divided into two provinces and granted representative institutions. ' 1850.—Submarine telegraph between England and France completed. 1853.—First meeting of Wellington Provincial Council.

1859. —Leigh Hunt; died. 1879.—Getewayo, King of the Zulus, captured by Major Harter, 1914.—German Samoans surrendered to New Zealanders. 1916.—Italy declared war on Germany. 1922.—Major Blake’s seaplane fell into the sea near Chittagong, India; round-the-world flight abandoned. ■ 1939. Tasman Empire .Airways flying boat Aolearoa arrived at Auckland after 12 days’ delivery flight from SouthamptO'l94o.—Royal Air Force attacked Berlin; over 1,000 ” bombs dropped in three-hour raid. , , , , 1940. Twenty-eight Nazi planes brought down in daylight raids on England. 1941. Iran' submitted lo Britain and Russia.

Russian bombers raid Berlin, Danzig, and towns in North-eastern and Central German v. ' , . Lar«o fives started, and many explosions. Stalingrad still in grave danger from attack of German armies in half-circle round city. , Successful Russian counter-attacks nortnwost of Moscow —620 inhabited localities recaptured in past fortnight. FVhtin< r in Caucasus reported 80 miles wcst° of °lie Grozny oilfields; Germans claiming further advance of 30 miles. Hurricane bombers hit four out of live ships in Nazi convoy olf Dieppe. New Japanese landing on south-eastern corner of New Guinea—Allied planes make strong attacks on troop' concentrations, barges, stores, and petrol dumps. In Burma American planes raid Laslno, start fives, and register hits on aerodrome runways.