IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1737.—Birth of Edward Gibbon. 1818.—Order of St. Michael ami St. George founded. 1820.-Birth of/Herbert Spencer. 1876.—Queen Victoria., made Empress of India by act of Parliament. ■ 1893.—Death of : Hon. John Ballance. 1915.—Allied troops established a front two miles inland from Cape Holies. 1941.—German troops entered Athens.
Led by British - officers partisans in fullscale revolt clear many North Italian cities of Germans.
Milan, Genoa, Como,- and other cities in partisan hands, and Turin half cleared. British Second Army in possession of all Bremen except dock area. Russians, in centre of Berlin, and capture of Stettin and Brno'announced.
In Hitler's redoubt Third Army occupies Inglestadt and approaches to within seven miles of. Austrian border.
During rocket assaults, 1,000 of the missiles were launched against Britain, mostly against London.
In Burma Fourteenth Army occupies Toungoo. less than 200 roail miles from Rangoon. Marshal Petain enters France and is arrested.
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Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 1
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149IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 1
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