TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.
HAY S. Le Sage, author of "Gil Bias," bore .. 166& A&toine Lavoisier. founder of modem chemistry, guillotined during the Reign of Terror .. •• l"3i Edward Gibbon Wakefield died *t Wellington .. .. •• •• 1862 John Stuart Mill, noted political economist and philosopher, d'-ed .. 1573 Eruption of Mont Pelee in Martinique, destruction of the town and St. Pierre; 55,000 killed .. .. 1002 Great fire in Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, damage .£IOO,OOO 1902 Germans capture Libau, on the Baltic 1915 Germans cross the V'iHtok; Kuseiau line broken •• .. 1315 German attack on British line at YpTes 1915 End of the attack on Krithia;- Blight Allied advance .. 1915 Germans loss gains at Mort Hcmmo and Fort Donaumont .. .. 191G Australian and New Zealand troops officially stated to be in Franco .. 1916 G«rman Eobmarinc torpedoes Cymric 1916 1
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16206, 8 May 1918, Page 4
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