IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. —December 26. 1805.—Venice annexed to Italy. 1830. —Belgium’s independence ac* knoivlodged. 1834.—Sir Robert Peel became Pre* mier of Britain. —December 27. 1862.—Great distress in Lancashire f half a million people dependent on charity. 1870.—Germans began bombardment of Paris. 1870.—Tiber burst its banks and in* undated three-quarters of Rome. 1900.—Death of _ Lord Armstrong,! founder of the Elswick works. 1908.—Great earthquake in Calabria; (Southern Italy) and Sicily. 1922.—Allies in conference at Paris on German reparations fail to reach agreement, and French decide to taka separate action.
We have, in my opinion, a bad times coming, and we shall need courage and' patience. But ultimate pessimism Pi No!—Dean Inge. The Doxology was sung by 2,000 people when a drink license for an hotel at Bangor, Wales, was refused. A musician in Berlin recently played four instruments—a piano, a harmonium, a drum, and cymbals—for seventy-one hourg*
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Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 1
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146IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20985, 26 December 1931, Page 1
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