IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1854.—Th0 Crystal Palace opened by Queen Victoria. 1857.—Indian mutiny broke out at Meerut. 1865.—Sir Samuel Baker discovered source of Nile at Lake Albert Nyanza. 1869.—Completion of railway system joining Atlantic and Pacific shore* of America. 1871.—Alsace-Lorraine ceded by France to Germany. 1904.—Sir Henry M. Stanley, explorer, 1 died. 1925.—H0n W. F. Massey died. Finance Bill passes. Strenuous emergency session of Pan. liament ends to-day. While carrying tho standard of tho local Salvation Army corp at Reading. England, Mr Charles Willoughby, aged sixty, a railway ganger, fell dead iu the street. i There are 1,557j975 motor vehicles in use in Britain, compared with 26,532,779 in the United States of America, where the tax per car is less than one-quarter of that in Britain. Major-general Sir Desmond O’Callaghan, of Inverna Court,. Kensington, left the sword of Napoleon I. and his father's dress sword, 10th Hussars, to the officers’ mess, Shoeburyness.
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Evening Star, Issue 21098, 10 May 1932, Page 1
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152IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21098, 10 May 1932, Page 1
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