IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1650.—Desoartes, French philosopher, died. 1826. —London University charter granted. 1847.—Edison born., 1864. —Major Heaphy won V.C. in engagement with Natives at Mangapiko River. 1876. —Cable, New Zealand to New South Wales, opened. 1915. —Allied air raid on Zeebrugge. 1919.—Ebert elected President of German Republic. Studley Royal wins Dunedin Cup in record time. The New Zealander, Matthews, wins a double title at the Empire Games in record times. Complete State control of fruit importations impending. No compensation for merchants. Matua strikes submerged rock. Damage not regarded as serious. Unemployment figures show substantial reduction in comparison with the four-weekly analysis over the same period last year. Experience of Scoullar and Chisholm Furniture is that it is the cheapest in the city. Test it for yourself.—fAdvt.] Duke and Duchess of Windsor said to have practically decided to spend the summer touring Scandinavia. Battle of Lunghai developing on a front of 400 miles. Japan employing eight main armies. Unrest in German army. Political interference resented by officers. Several Spaniards arrested in France on charges of planning “ executions ” by microbe poisoning. Alleged to be agents -of General Franco. Twenty tons of German wartime gas shells removed from underground dump eight miles from Arras. Five persons known to be dead as result of eighty-mile-an-hour gale in California.