IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1832.—Birth of Field-Marshal Lord Rob--1839. —Colonel Wakefield took possession of Port NichoLon for the New Zealand Company. 1840. —Foundation laid of Nelson Column, Trafalgar Square. 1874.—Fiji ceded Jo Great Britain. 1890 —M'Kinlav TarilV Bill passed in United Stales. ” , „ 1800.“-Governor of New Zealand left to annex Cook and other South Sea islands. 1901.—iirocksiuan, cx-PnbJic Prosecutor in .Johannesburg, shot fr high treason. 1518.—Fall of Damascus. 1940.--Berlin subjected to longest air raid of war to date: many industrial and military objectives heavily attacked. Three-Power Conference in Moscow urges speediest, possible help to Russia. Approaches to the Crimea the scone of savage fighting. Nazis adopting blitz tactic. 1 -. Marshal Timoshenko scores big new sneer.':' in centra) sector. R.A.F. bombs Turin, Milan, Genoa, and oilier important targot< in Italy. Germany demands extension of martial law in Laly. Many executions by Nazis in Franco and Serbia State of emergency declared in Czechoslovakia. Military writer* in British Pres* urge greater help for Russia. Ono hundred and twenty-eight- of crew of Graf Spec already escaped from camps in 1 Argentina.