IN A NUTSHELL
♦- ANNIVERSARIES. 1812.—Sir George Grey born. 1814—Last battle of tho Peninsula* War; sortie of French garrison from’ Bayonne. , , _ . 1852.—Rangoon captured by General Godwin, . 1865. Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (died April 15). 1874.—Railway opened between Wellington and Lower Hutt. I96o.—Paris Exhibition opened by President Loubet. . 1912.—Steamer Titanic collided with an iceberg off Cape Race, Newfoundland; 1,493 lives lost. 1918.—General Foch appointed Generalissimo of Allied Forces. Turkey has its first woman surgeon* Suad Hanem, a young married woman* having passed the examination for her, diploma with exceptional brilliance. Of the law cases heard under the poor persons rule in England 93 per cent, are matrimonial. In 96 out every hundred cases so heard the poor litigants win. At a height of 11,000 ft, at Sharato* in Szechwan, China, two American explorers have found stone implements and other traces of primitive culture of very early man.
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Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 1
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146IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 1
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