IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1769.—Captain Cook first sighted New Zealand. 1849.—Death of Edgar Allan Poe. 1894.—D»ath of Oliver Wendell. Holmes. 1914.—Antwerp evacuated. 1916.—British captured Le Sars. 1916.—Raid off American coast by submarine U 53 1940.—Nazi move in Balkans; German forces entered Rumania. 1943.—Red army captured Neval. —October B. 1769.—Captain Cook landed at Poverty Bay on his first visit. 1813.—Duki- of Wellington's army entered France. 1871.—Great fire in Chicago. 1879.—Sir John Hall became Prime Minister. 1887.—Major H. Atkinson became Prime Minister. 1890.—Government printing office at Wellington destroyed by fire. 1895.—X-rays discovered by Rontgen. ' 1900.—Cook Islands annexed by New Zealand. 1922.—Memonal to New Zealand soldiers unveiled .at Longueinlle, France.
Americans launch new attack south-east of Aachen. Germans report thAt British have established a bridgehead across the Lek, 10 miles west of Arnhem. With improved weather Allied air forces out in strength strafing enemy positions and communications. R.A.F. Lancasters in heavy raid on Saarbrucken drop over 300,000 incendiaries. Fifth Army spearhead in Italy now only 14 miles from Bclogna. Reinforcements flown in to Allied forces on Greek mainland. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans united in attack on Belgrade. Japanese in suburbs of treaty port of Foochow.
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Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 1
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192IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 25300, 7 October 1944, Page 1
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