IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 25494, 26 May 1945, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. 1842.—British defeated Boers at Port Natal. 1849. —Public meeting at Dunp.din to protest against introduction of British convicts into New Zealand. 1867.—Birth of Queen Mary. 1875.—Railway workshops at Hillside started. 1940.—Germans entered Boulogne. 1942.—Rommel made first movo in Libyan campaign. 1942.—Hcydrich, notorious Gestapo chief, shot in Prague, dying two days later; reign of (error followed. 1942.—Ang10-Soviet treaty of alliance signed in London. -> —May 27. 1263.—Birth of Dante.' 1679.—Habeas Corpus Act passed. 1840.—Death of Paganini, violinist. 1854.—New Zealand's first Parliament opened at Auckland. * 1905.-—Japanese, fleet annihilated Russian fleet in Sea of Japan. 1936.—Maiden voyage, of liner Queen Mary. 1940.—Evacuation of Dunkirk. ' 1941.—German battleship Bismarck sunk after long chase. 1941.—'Enormous German casualties in bitter fighting in Crete. 1943.—Death of Rt. Hon. J. 0. Coates. 1944.—Mr D. C. Cameron elected Mayor of Dunedin. Four thousand tons of fire bombs dropped on Tokio's industrial areas by Super Portresses in second great raid in 48 hours. British Fourteenth Army in Burma making new advances, and a river port is captured. Japanese forces withdrawing from Hunan and Honan Provinces. Paris gives Field-Marshal Montgomery rousing reception when he opens British Army exhibition. French war prisoners and forced labourers totalling . 856,000 brought 'back from Germany. Lebanon and Syrian Governments send Notes to the big Powers protesting againsL French operations in Levant. Norwegian Government ready to return to Norway. Serious inflation threatened in Greece.