IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1170.—Thomas A’Beckett murdered. 1809.—Gladstone born. 1836.—Site of Adelaide fixed by Colonel W. Light. 1850.—Outbreak of second Kaffir war. . 1895.—Dr Jamieson’s ride into Transvaal from Mafeking. 1902.—Coronation Durbar at Delhi began. 1916.—Rasputin shot and body thrown into Neva. 1920.—Italian Royalist troops retane Flume. Wanganella, which collided with trawler yesterday morning, reaches Sydney for docking. Damage regarded as negligible. ' ’ Japan frankly admits that mistakes were made when British ships were attacked. Gramophone company’s premises gutted by fire in London. Watchman burned to death and £30,000 worth of stock destroyed. Anti-tank rifle weighing 361 b arid capable of firing nine rounds a minute will shortly be issued to British infantry battalions.
Sculptor in Vienna claims to have surmounted the technical difficulties involved in modelling a life-size statue in glass.
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Evening Star, Issue 22843, 29 December 1937, Page 1
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130IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 22843, 29 December 1937, Page 1
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