IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1770.—Captain Cook sighted the Australian coast. 1824.—Death ot Lord Byron. 1864.—Acclimatisation Society formed in Christchurch. 1881.—Death of Lord Beaconsfield. 1882.—Death of Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist. 1883.—Parliament House in Quebec destroyed by lire. 1893.—Cheviot estate taken over by v the Government. 1906.—Professor Curie, joint discoverer of radium, killed in street accident in Paris. 1917.—French gained crest of ridge north of the Aisne. 1941.—Anzacs inflicted great losses on Nazi forces in Greece. Axis feverishly reinforcing armies in Tunisia by sea and air. Stage now set for greatest battle of war between Allies and Axis. Total of 21 enemy supply ships sunk by British submarines in Mediterranean last month. R.A.F. keeps up round-the-clock bombing of Europe by another heavy raid on Dieppe docks. Most serious fighting in Russia confined to the Kuban front. Germans throw in fresh reserves and tanks without success. Australia again appeals for more air support against Japanese. Nazi labour chief in Warsaw executed by Polish underground army.
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Evening Star, Issue 24483, 19 April 1943, Page 1
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162IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 24483, 19 April 1943, Page 1
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