IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1605. Gunpowder Plot (“Guy Fawkes Day”). 1841. —Nelson harbour discovered. 1854.—Battle of Inkerman. 1858.—Funeral car of Napoleon .1* presented to France by Queen Victoria* 1881. —To Kooti, TobUj and other disaffected Maoris taken prisoners. 1887.—Triple Alliance formed tween Germany, Austro-Hungary, and It l9oo.—De Wet deported by General Knox. , , _ 1914.—Britain declared war on Turkey. , . ■ London’s official affairs are handled by an army of 6,500 people, who are responsible for the expenditure of about £63,250,000 a year. The Spanish Minister of War ha* ordered that in future no army general or,any other officer shall have * right to more than one horse. During the recent glut of salmon in the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire, a Filey fisherman caught I,ooolb of the fish in one day’s catch. _ The number of babies born in England between 1921 and 1931 was more than a million and a-quarter less than m the preceding ten years.
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Evening Star, Issue 20942, 5 November 1931, Page 1
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155IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20942, 5 November 1931, Page 1
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