IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1685. —Monmouth beheaded. 1815.—Napoleon boarded the Eellerophon after abdicating. 1819.-—First steamer voyage (Savannah) between New York and Liverpool: 26 days. 1849.—Re-establishment of temporal authority of Pope proclaimed at Rome. 1858.—Citv of Venezuela earthquake; 800 deaths. ' ; 1870.—War declared belween Germany and France. 1887.—Dunedin Sailors' Rest opened. 1918. —Third Herman offensive; commencement of the second Manic Hal tie. 1933.—F0ur-Power Pact signed.
Allies capture big airfield and town of Comiso, also railway town of Modica. Pig battle expected on Catania plain, towards which Allips are advancing after taking naval port of Augusta. Allied fighters now using captured airfields. Fires still burning in Aachen (France) several hours after heavy raid by R.A.F. Fifty-one enemy planes destroyed in daylight raids on airfields in the Paris region and northern France. Main fighting on Russian front still on the Byelgorod sector Germans fail to make progress. Rommel reported to have been shot down by Allied fighters while en route to Sicily in transport plane. American pinror movement against, apanese base of Mnnda closing in.
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Evening Star, Issue 24917, 15 July 1943, Page 1
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