IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1854.—The Crystal Palace opened by Queen Victoria. 1857.—Indian Mutiny. 1865.—Sir Samuel Baker discovered second source of Nile at Lake Albert Nyanza. 1869.—Completion of railway system joining Atlantic and Pacific shores of America. 1871.—Alsace - Lorraine ceded by France to Germany. 1904.—Sir Henry Stanley, explorer, died. 1925.—H0n. W. F. Massey died. 1936.—Italian sovereignty proclaimed over Abyssinia.
Hitler leaves Rome for extensive sight-seeing tour in Florence. Unrest reported among former Austrians in the South Tyrol.
King George VI. carries out inspection of Royal Air Force aerodromes. British sea captains appeal to Foreign Office for protection of British shipping in Spanish waters.Marshal diking Kai-shek forecasts protracted and bitter struggle, _in which ho has grounds for cautious Overdue vessel Anglo-Australiau presumed to have sunk with all hands in the Atlantic. . . , Russian 1937 plan tor tlio chemical industry pronounced a failure, owing to wreckage.
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Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 1
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