IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 23881, 10 May 1941, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1854.—Crystal Palace opened by Queen i Victoria. 1857.—Indian Mutiny broke out at Meerut. 1865.—Sir Samuel Baker discovered second source of Nile at Lake Albert Nyanza. 1869.—Completion of American coast-to-coast railway system. 1871. —Alsace-Lorraine ceded to Germany by France, 1904. —Sir Henry Stanley, explorer, died. 1925. Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey died. 1936.—Italian sovereignty proclaimed over Abyssinia. 1940.—Germans invaded Holland, Belgium, and Luxemburg. 1940 —Mr Neville Chamberlain resigned; Mr Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. —May 11.— 1778,—William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, died. 1812.—Spencer Percival, Prime Minister, assassinated in lobby of House of Commons. 1868. —Bill passed in House of Commons excluding public from executions. 1871.—Death of Sir John Herschell, astronomer. 1871.—Final Treaty of Peace between France and Germany signed. 1900 —General Buller reoccupied Glencoe and Dundee, evacuated by British in October, 1899. 1921.—Germany submits to Allies’ terras. 1932.—L0rd Bledisloe made gift of Waitangi to nation. 1940.—Mr Churchill appointed War Cabinet. British bombers raid Hamburg and Bremen. Heaviest attacks of war. Thirteen more night raiders shot down over Britain. Enemy commerce raider of about 10,000 tons sunk in Indian Ocean. Attack on Crete expected. Germans assembling parachute troops. Iraq air arm no longer a fighting force. Free Yugoslavia air force co-operating with R.A.F. in Middle East. I Severe sandstorm hampering operations at Tobruk.