IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 25470, 28 April 1945, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1887—Post Office at Wellington destroyed by lire. 1893.—Standard Bank of Australia suspended payment. 1915.—Allies made further advance en Krithia front.' 1941.—Evacuation of British forces from Greece began. .1941.—Dessio captured by British. 1942.—Rationing of sugar in New Zealand. 1944.—Death of Colonel Knox, United States Secretary for the Navy. —April. 29 1864.—British attack on Gate Pa (Tauranga) repulsed. • • * • lb/2.—Opening of the northern railway line from Christchurch. 1881. —Tararua wrecked at Waipapa Point; 130 lives lost. ~ 1884.—Women admitted to examinations at Oxford University. 1889.—First meeting of Samoan Conference in Berlin. 1893.—Summary court martial abolished. 1907.—Waipori power turned on. 1907.—Death of Hon. W. M. Bolt. 1941. —Axis advance in North Africa halted • at Solium. 1944.—Tornado struck Westport; damage assessed at £IO.OOO. American First Army links up with Koniev's Fifty-eighth Armoured Division on the Elbe River. First contact made by patrols on Wednesday; formal link-up on Thursday. Marshal Stalin issues special order of the day saluting the Russian, British, and American armies, and orders greatest sa!'voes to be fired in Moscow. Russians capture Spandau and Potsdam, among olher places.. Third Army occupies Regensburg, and British Second Army clears Bremen. Fifth Army in Italy enters partisan-held Genoa. Mussolini officially reported captured. Germans reported to be " packing up " in Italy, and campaign nearing its end.

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