IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1650. —Battle of Dunbar. 1651. —Battle of Worcester. 1658. —Death of Oliver Cromwell. 1835.—Birth of Lord Halsbury. 1853.—First steamer arrived at Wellington from Sydney. 1853.—Dunedin first lighted with gas. 1378.—River steam boat Princess Alice sank in the Thames; 700 lives lost. 1884.—Appointment of the Stout Ministry. 1914.—Lemberg occupied by the Russians; Austrians routed with enormous losses. 1914.—French Government removed to Bordeaux. 1939. —Britain and Franco at war with Germany. 1939. Steamer Allienia, with 1,400 passengers aboard, torpedoed oft the Hebrides by German submarine; 110 lives lost. 1940. Anniversary of war marked by further air raids on Britain; Nazi bombers, and fighters again suffer .heavy losses. 1940. —Ametlca transfers 50 destroyers to Britain for lease of territories adjacent to Panama Canal. 1940. —French Oceania ranged with General de Gaulle. 1940.—Attempt to assassinate King Carol failed. British defence lines in Egypt held everywhere. General Montgomery’s tanks thrown into action. Germans exerting still greater pressure on Stalingrad., . ’ •Situation in- south-west ' described as critical. Russians cut up Italians divisions at Kletskaya. R A.F. stages outstandingly successful raid over Saar Valley. Russian planes bomb Warsaw. Further Chinese successes .reported in Chekiang. ' Japanese thrusts from Kokoda, in New Guinea, increasing in strength.