IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 25462, 18 April 1945, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1856.—Appointment of first Ministry in New Zealand under responsible government. • .1906.—Great earthquake at San Francisco. ' 1922.—1V.dd0n beat Hadfielcl, on Wanganui , River for world's sculling championship. 1941.—Allied line intact in face of fierce Nazi attacks in Greece; New Zealanders held Olympus Pass. • 1942.—Raid on Japanese cities by American bombers; defences caught napping. 1943.—Axis air convoy wiped out over Sicilian Channel: 58 Junkers transports and 16 Messerschmitts destroyed. Cost to New Zealand of war to date has been £500,000,000. Recent wage increases will absorb between £10.000.000 and £20,000,000 this year, according to Mr Nash.

Ninth Army begins all-out assault on Magdeburg.

In the Netherlands Canadians reach northern end of Zuider Zee. Germans open dykes at southern end. American First Army closing in on three sides of Leipzig. . More German reports of big Russian offensive on middle Oder opposite Berlin. Russians capture oil centre north-east of Vienna.

Allied spring offensive ,in Italy going well. Mr Churchill, in House of Commons, pays tribute to President Roosevelt. Several square miles of Tokio's industrial area now gutted and in smouldering ruins.