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THE WORLD - New century is greeted throughout the world. BOER WAR -
British troops were involved in a major ground battle. LONDON - Fifty
people are dying each day from the influenza epidemic ravaging the city.
IRELAND - John Redmond an Irish nationalist calls for rebellion against
the British presence in Ireland. CHINA - Foreign legations demand that
the imperial government discipline the rebellious Boxer sect.
BALTIMORE - Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins university discovers
the cause of the earth's magnetism.
0700
CHINA - It is reported that over 1,500 foreigners have been massacred by
100,000 Boxer rebels and renegade Chinese soldiers. AUSTRIA - Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir to Kaiser franz Josef, marries Countess Sophie
Chotek. BRUSSELS - Jean-Baptiste Sipido, alleged assassin of the Prince
of Wales goes on trial. PARIS - The opening of the Metropolitan, or
Metro, underground rail system. CANADA - The Federal government forbids
the immigration of paupers and criminals. GERMANY - Count Zeppelin's
airship takes to the skies for the first time.
0101
ISLE OF WIGHT - Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81 and had reigned for
63 years. AUSTRALIA - The Common wealth of Australia comes into being
with Lord Hopetoun as governor-general and Edmund Barton as first Prime
Minister. CHINA - Russia and Britain agree on the partition of China.
MANCHESTER - An explosion in a hat factory kills 12 people. LONDON -
King Edward VII makes his nephew the German Kaiser a field-marshal in
the British army. MANCHESTER - 12 retailers are prosecuted for selling
beer containing arsenic.
0701
NEW YORK - Nearly 400 people died in one day during a heat wave, with
temperatures up to 110 degrees F (37 degrees C) in the shade. FRANCE -
The speed limit for cars in towns is set at 10km/h. LONDON - The Opening
of the first completed section of the London Electric tramway from
Shepherds Bush to Southall. BERLIN - Reichstag members unsuccessfully
attempt to outlaw duelling. U.K. - The British congress on Tuberculosis
opens. LONDON - Statistics reveal that around 86,000 whites and 23,000
blacks are being held in South African concentration camps.
0102
U.S. - The Carnegie Institution is formed in Washington to promote study
and research. LONDON - Irish MP's pass resolutions protesting at inter-
ference in meetings and suppression of free speech. MEXICO - Earthquake
in Mexico city kills at least 300 people. U.S. - The Ithsmian Canal
commission shifts support to Panama for new shipping canal. SWITZERLAND
- A referendum opposes separation of church and state. U.K. - A census
shows the population of Greater London is 6,581,372. LONDON - The U.K.
and Japan sign a treaty guaranteeing an independence of China and Korea.
0702
LONDON - Balfour takes over as the British prime minister. VENICE - The
Campanile of St. Mark's Cathedral collapses, the tower dated back to the
year 902. GERMANY - The formula is patented for Barbituric acid, used in
sleeping pills. LONDON - King Edward VII confers the order of the garter
on Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Habsburg Empire. LONDON - Lord
Kitchener is given a triumphant welcome on his return from S. Africa.
ST. PETERSBURG - Russia announces its intention to restore Manchuria to
China. AFRICA - The British defeat the Mad Mullah in Somaliland.
0103
INDIA - India acclaims Edward VII as emperor. U.S. - U.S. signs treaty
with Columbia for Panama Canal. NEW YORK - The 'Wizard of Oz' is a
spectacular hit on Broadway. WASHINGTON - Blacks demand pensions for ex
slaves. PARIS - A new bicycle race is announced for 1903, called the
'Tour de France'. CHINA - The imperial government announces that it is
unable to meet reparations for the Boxer rebellion. WASHINGTON - U.S.
and U.K. create joint commission to determine Alaskan frontier. U.K. -
51 people die in a fire at a mental hospital at Colney, London.
0703
ROME - Pope Leo XIII dies at the age of 93, having been in office for 25
years. FRANCE - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France, arriving
back in Paris 2hrs 49 minutes ahead of his closest rival. IRELAND - The
worlds first powerboat race takes place, organised by the Royal Cork
Yacht Club. U.S. - The Ford motor company sells first production car, a
two cylinder model A. GLASGOW - 15 die and many are injured in a train
crash. LONDON - The UK and Japan demand Russian evacuation of Manchuria.
Also in Britain, American artist James Whistler dies.
0104
SOUTH WEST AFRICA - Rebellious Herero tribesmen systematically massacred
123 German settlers. KOREA - British, US and Russian marines land to
protect legations in Seoul. ROME - Joan of Arc is dubbed Blessed by the
Pope, the second stage to canonisation. SOMALILAND - British troops
massacre 1,000 Dervishes. U.S. - Henry Ford sets new land speed record
of 91.37 mph in his motor car '999' on frozen lake St. Clair. NORWAY -
Fire destroys the city of Alesundi; 12,000 people are left destitute.
U.S. - Two hundred miners are buried in an explosion in Pennsylvania.
0704
SIBERIA - The long awaited Trans-Siberian railway stretching 4,607 miles
has been completed after 13 years. U.S. - The third Olympic Games of
modern times open at St.louise. Willie Anderson wins the third US Open
Golf Championships. MIDDLE EAST - The UK sends warships to protect it's
shipping from harassment by the Russian navy looking for the Japanese.
LONDON - Crisis in Anglo-Russian relations as Russia sinks one British
ship and seizes another. PARIS - Maurice Garin wins his second Tour de
France. RUSSIA - The interior minister Viacheslav von Plehva is killed.
0105
ST. PETERSBURG - Loyal strikers marching through St.Petersburg to
petition Czar Nicholas II for better conditions were shot down leaving
more than 500 dead and many more wounded. PORT ARTHUR - After a seven
month seige the 20,000 Russian garrison surrendered to the Japanese.
RUSSIA - The Trans Siberian railway officially opens, allowing travel
from Paris to Vladivostok in 21 days. U.S. - The Senate reluctantly
approves Roosevelt's choice of a black man as head of the S. Carolina
customs service. LONDON - A Transatlantic liner ticket to US costs £6.
0705
FRANCE - France separates the church and the state. SOUTH AFRICA - Boers
protest against British privilege in new electoral law. NEW YORK - The
world record for a mile in a steam powered car is cut to 48.8 seconds.
WASHINGTON - Elihu Root replaces the late John Hay as secretary of state
. PARIS - France consents to conference with Germany over the Moroccan
crisis. NEW YORK - Raid led on womens poolroom led by female detective.
Commander Peary's ship sails for North Pole. RUSSIA - Russian nobility
vehemently opposes the creation of Duma.
0106
U.S. - wright brothers aeroplane flies 24 miles in 38 minutes at 38 mph,
75 to 100 feet altitude. U.K. - Voting begins in the general election;
LIVERPOOL - Tram accident kills 30 people. U.S. - New motor speed record
for the mile is 28.2 seconds achieved in Florida. LONDON - River Thames
catches fire as oil on the surface ignites. BERLIN - The Police forbid
'obscene' Isadora Duncan from dancing in public. U.S. - The US army in
the Philippines is boosted in anticipation of unrest in China. CANADA -
120 drown when steamer, Valencia runs aground off Vancouver.
0706
FRANCE - At long last, the French Republic made the 'Amende Honourable'
to Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who eleven years ago was publicly disgraced
as a spy for the Germans. After being vindicated he was made a Knight of
the Legion of Honour. RUSSIA - The dissolution of Russia's first
democratic institution, known as Duma. LONDON - London County Council
warns of the spread of tuberculosis through infected milk. WIMBLEDON -
Dorothea Douglass beats Mary Sutton for the Ladies' Singles Championship
. RUSSIA - 50 Regiments are reported to have mutinied.
0107
JAMAICA - Hundreds are feared dead in an earthquake which devastated the
Jamaican capital of Kingston. PERSIA - Mohammad Ali is the new Shah.
CHINA - Four million people are feared to be starving owing to heavy
rains and crop failure. EUROPE - Arctic weather grips the continent, it
is minus 30 degrees F in Austria. GERMANY - 164 are killed in a mine
explosion at Saarbrucken. ROME - Pope Pius X says French government
policies aim to dechristianise France. LONDON - Senior diplomat Sir Eyre
Crowe says Britain must stand up to Germanys wish to dominate Europe.
0707
ITALY - National celebrations mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Guiseppe Garibaldi. LONDON - Tom Reece ends Billiards break of 499,135
begun on June 3rd when two balls stuck in pocket opening. PARIS - Major
Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his complete
rehabilitation. MUNICH - Experimental train reported to average 81 mph
and reach 98 mph maximum. LONDON - Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boys
Scouts after Brownsea camp. BELFAST - Troops sent in following unrest.
JAPAN - 471 miners lost in mine disaster."
0108
U.S. - Georgia introduces a law prohibiting alcohol. LONDON - 'The Times
' is bought by Arthur Pearson from the Walter family. BARNSLEY - 16
children die when a staircase collapses at a childrens show. PANAMA -
Chief Panama Canal engineer George Goethals says the project will cost
around 60 million pounds. U.K. - First issue of 'Scouting for Boys',
journal of the scouting movement. LONDON - The Playhouse theatre opens.
HULL - The Labour party conference decides by a narrow margin to adopt
socialism.
0708
RUSSIA - 228 die in Jusovka pit disaster, 150 are missing. ROME - Papal
decree says that the UK, US, Canada and Holland are no longer missionary
lands. U.K. - Scotsman George Davidson invents a 'Gyrocopter' a flying
machine with two rotary fans. LONDON - Fire breaks out in Moorgate tube
station. The first criminal appeal, against a murder conviction, is
turned down at the central criminal court. WIMBLEDON - Arthur Gore beats
Herbert Barret in the men's singles final.TURKEY - Revolt of the 'Young
Turks' breaks out in Monastir.
0109
SICILY - A massive international rescue operation is under way in
Southern Italy as the full horror of the Messina earthquake becomes
known. At least 200,000 people are now feared dead. SOUTH POLE - A
British expedition, led by Lieutenant Edward Shackleton, has reached a
point closer to the South Pole than any other explorers. U.S. - Reported
that the motion picture industry employs 100,000 people and is already
worth 40 million dollars. LONDON - Astronomers report they may have
sighted another planet beyond Neptune.
0709
                 'BLERIOT FLIES 43 MINUTES INTO HISTORY'
Frenchman Louis Bleriot became aviation's latest hero when he success-
fully flew across the English Channel. Bleriot was awarded 1000 pounds
offered by the Daily Mail and a hero's welcome when he landed at Dover.
GREECE - 116 people are killed in an earthquake. GERMANY - Count von
Zeppelin makes a 200 mile flight at 21 mph in his latest airship. ROME -
The Vatican denounces feminine fashions as immodest. TEHRAN - Persian
Shah deposed by nationalists; to be replaced by his 12 year old son.
0110
U.K. - 10 die when the steamer Arcadian collides with another vessel in
the Irish sea. MANCHURIA - Russia and Japan agree to neutrality of Man-
churian railway. BERLIN - The German government tells the US it is ready
 for a tariff war. INDIA - Anarchist shoots dead a policeman in
Calcutta court. LONDON - Police rescue Asquith when he is mobbed by
suffragettes. FRANCE - Rains that have been falling unrelentingly on
Paris for several days have brought devastating floods. The Louvre
Gallery with priceless treasures could be damaged beyond repair.
0710
CANADA - Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, wanted for murder, was arrested on a
ship off Canada - the first criminal suspect to be caught by radio. His
wife's body was found mutilated and dismembered and buried beneath the
cellar floor of their home. FAR EAST - Russia acknowledges Japanese
occupation of Korea in return for a free hand in Manchuria. EGYPT -
Discovery of a tablet describing the fall of Jerusalem. U.S. - Race
riots flare as Jack Johnson, the first black World Heavyweight Champion
crushed a comeback attempt by former title holder Jim Jeffries.
0111
The siege of Sidney Street began when two members of a group of foreign
anarchists were trapped by police in a house in London's east end. Three
weeks earlier the group had committed a robbery, killing three policemen
. The Scots Guards from the Tower of London were sent in and the House
was set on fire and eventually collapsed. The anarchists were burnt to
death. While at the same time Eugene Ely became the first pilot to land
his aircraft on a ship. His Curtis Pusher bi plane landed on a special
120 foot platform on a US cruiser in San Francisco.
0711
NEW YORK - 221 die from heat exhaustion  while an unprecedented heat
wave hits Europe. NIAGARA FALLS - Bobby Leach is the second person to
survive a trip down Niagara Falls in a barrel, the first was Anna Edson
Taylor who did it because she could not pay her mortgage and wanted the
notoriety. IRELAND - King George V opens the Royal College of Science in
Dublin. FRANCE- French racer Victor Garrigou wins eighth Tour de France.
U.S. - Harry Atwood makes first plane flight over Manhattan. U.K. -
Parliament passes the Shops Act, giving shop workers a half day off.
0112
AMERICA - New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the Union.  U.K.  -
National Telephone Company is taken over by the Post Office.  LONDON -
The Cabinet is reported to be split down the middle on women's suffrage.
PARIS - Prof.  Dastre of the Sorbonne describes a pioneering cornea
graft operation by Dr.  Magiot, which restored a blind man's sight.
LONDON - The London General Omnibus Co.  and London Underground Electric
Railways Co.  provisionally agree to merge.  U.K.  - Churchill and Irish
leader redmond decide to meet in a marquee on Glasgow Celtic FC's pitch.
0712
BRITAIN - Many shows and markets are cancelled in Yorkshire because of
foot and mouth outbreak which has also been reported in Ireland.  ITALY
- The 15 month trial of Neapolitan Camorra gangsters found nine of the
accused guilty of murder, as one of the accused cuts his throat in the
dock.  DUBLIN - Irish Nationalist leader Redmond is wounded by a hatchet
thrown at the British Prime Minister by a suffragist.  YORKSHIRE - 87
miners were killed in a huge colliery explosion..  LONDON - Inquiry into
Titanic disaster finds Captain Smith guilty of negligence.
0113
BALKANS - At the London peace talks Turkey agrees to give up all its
European territories except the area west of Constantinople.  CHINA -
300 Chinese troops are killed in a night raid by Tibetans.  LONDON - The
Government introduces Proportional Respresentation into Home Rule
proposals to safeguard interests of Protestant minority in Ireland.
U.K.  - First sick and maternity benefits under National Insurance act.
ROME - Pope forbids films of a religious nature and bans films from
church.  LONDON - Two die as black fog descends on the city.
0713
BRITAIN - The aviator Samuel Cody was killed when his aircraft crashed
at Farnborough, it was Britain's first air tragedy.  IRELAND - 150,000
Ulstermen prepare for armed resistance to home rule proposed by British
Liberals.  SOUTH AFRICA - Anarchy prevails in Johannesburg as troops
fire on gold mine strikers, killing 40.  BRITAIN - 50 girls die in a 20
minute factory fire.  FRANCE - Aviator Pegoud says parachutes are as
safe as Motor cars.  CHINA - Civil war is reported to have broken out in
Shanghai.  GERMANY - Report shows Battleships are being built for war.
0114
LONDON - Doctors at the Middlesex hospital successfully treat Cancer
with Radium.  AMERICA - Henry Ford announces that workers will share
$10,000,000 of company profits,and that they will be paid $5 for an
eight hour day rather than $.234 for a nine hour day.  JAPAN - Nine
million are reported starving in North East Japan.  LONDON - The Queen
Victoria memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is completed.  Sylvia
Pankhurst is re-arrested under the "cat and mouse" act.  TOKYO -
Volcanic eruption kills 300 as 25,000 flee.
0714
U.S.  - Telephone line installed between New York and San Francisco.
NEW YORK - Bomb meant for J.D.  Rockerfeller explodes in assassins
apartment, killing many.  GERMANY - Wilhelm II reasserts alliance with
Austria and Hungary.  AUSTRIA - Austria prepares to invade Serbia, sends
ultimatum demanding reperations for Archduke's assassination, Serbia
rejects; diplomatic relations are broken; Austria/Hungary declare war on
Serbia.  IRELAND - British troops invade streets of Dublin to disarm
Irish rebels.  BELGIUM - Albert I announces general mobilization.
0115
                  "GERMANS SUNK IN NORTH SEA BATTLE"
British warships have scotched a German plan to bombard east coast
towns, and sunk the most powerful battle cruiser in the world, The
Blucher.  ITALY - 29,000 die in a massive earthquake.  CENTRAL ASIA -
Turkish 9th Army Corps surrenders to Russians with loss of 50,000 Turks.
POLAND - It is reported that Poles and Cossacks are slaughtering Jews or
driving them from their homes.  U.S.  - Alexander Graham Bell sets new
telephone call record of 4,750 miles between New York and San Francisco.
0715
                  "BRIDES IN THE BATH MURDERER TO HANG"
Triple killer George Joseph Smith was convicted of murder and sentenced
to death.  The Bristol antique dealer, had bigamously married his three
victims using a series of aliases.  Having insured his wife's life he
persuaded her to make a will in his favour then he drownedher in the
bath.  EASTERN FRONT - German troops continue advance into Poland.
LONDON - Government estimates war is now costing £3 million.  U.K.  -
Casualties so far in the war number 330,995.
0116
                   "CONSCRIPTION BILL GIVEN GO AHEAD"
BRITAIN - The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly for conscription.
LONDON - Home scretary Sir John Simon resigns over proposal to conscript
single men.  MIDDLE EAST - British defeat 60,000 Turks in Tigris battle.
CENTRAL ASIA - Russia begins offensive against the Turks.U.S.- President
Wilson says the US navy is ready for war if it comes. NEW YORK - US
Industrialist Henry Ford returns from abortive peace mission to Europe.
HOLLAND - Breach of Zuyder Zee Dam in worst storms for 90 years.
0716
FRANCE - Carnage as Somme campaign opens. U.S. - Alcohol is prohibited
in Michigan, Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota; 24 states are now dry.
U.S. - Caca-Cola Co. has introduced a new contoured bottle to make
immitation difficult. LONDON - Lloyd George becomes War Secretary in
succession to Kitchener. DUBLIN - Independent Irish Nationalists hold
large meeting in the Pheonix Park to protest at British government's
Irish partition proposals. U.K. - Queen Mary opens the Chelsea Hospital
for women. U.S. - 39 die in race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois.
0117
                 "WILD WEST LEGEND, BUFFALO BILL, DIES"
One of the most colourful characters of the wild west dies.  William
Cody was an army scout during the Sioux warsand later won the contract
to supply meat to workers building the Kansas City railroad.  In 18
months he killed 4,820 buffalo - hence his name.  ATLANTIC - 350 die
when HMS Laurentic is sunk by a mine.  LONDON - Parliamentary conference
recommends giving the vote to married women over a certain age.  GERMANY
- Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discover the radioactive element Proactium.
0717
                  "PILLOW TALK COSTS MATA HARI HER LIFE"
Mata Hari, the glamerous Dutch dancer and adventuress was sentenced to
death after being found guilty of spying by a French court-martial.
                      "WE SAW VIRGIN CLAIM IN FATIMA"
Pilgrims are beginning to flock towards the small village of Fatima in
portugal where three shepherd's children claim to have seen visions of
the Virgin Mary.  BRITAIN - The war is now costing Britain 7 million
pounds a day.
0118
LONDON - The House of Lords approves the representation of the people
bill, giving married women over the age of 30 the vote. WASHINGTON -
The House of Representatives votes in favour of women's suffrage.
President Wilson orders all except food industries to shut down for five
days and then every Monday until 25th March to save coal due to the
miners strike. U.K. - 103 sailors die and two submarines are lost in a
series of collisions during a Royal Navy night exercise in the Firth of
Forth. FRANCE - Former French Prime Minister, is arrested for treason.
0718
Russia's Bolshevik rulers cold bloodedly wiped out former Czar Nicholas
II and his family in revenge for the past and in fear of the future.
The Romanovs were shot and bayoneted to death in a celler.  U.K.  - 100
are killed and 150 injured in an explosion at an armaments factory in
the Midlands.  U.S.  - Charles Strite announces the invention of a new
"Popup" machine for toasting bread.  FRANCE - Spanish influenza is
taking on epidemic proportions.  Frenchman Captain Sarret makes first
ever parachute drop from an aeroplane, falling 800 feet.
0119
BERLIN - Communist uprising is crushed in Berlin.  MANCHESTER -
Professor Ernest Rutherford "splits the smallest particle" of atoms.
U.K.  - Over 200 sailors on leave drown when the yacht "Stornoway" is
wrecked off Scotland.  TURKEY - 1.5 million Armenians massacred by
Turks.  WASHINGTON - Thirty days official mourning ordered for ex
president Roosevelt.  EUROPE - Germany releases all Allied prisoners of
war; the Allies release only sick German prisoners.  WASHINGTON - 18th
amendment becomes law; Prohibition will take effect one year from now.
0719
             "BRITISH AIRSHIP IN FIRST ATLANTIC ROUND TRIP"
The British airship R-34 landedin Norfolk after the first two way
crossing of the North Atlantic by air. On board was the first trans-
atlantic air stowaway, rigger William Ballantyne, who hid on board after
he was dropped from the crew at the lat moment. U.S. - Jack Dempsey
thrashes Jess Willard in three rounds to become the world heavyweight
champion. WEIMAR - Germany is declared a republic. CHICAGO - Over 4,000
troops are called out to quell rioting by blacks which left 14 dead.
0120
                 "AMERICA BRINGS IN PROHIBITION LAW"
The Eighteenth amendment to the American Constitution, prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of alcohol, went into force.
             "AMERICA BOYCOTTS FIRST MEETING OF LEAGUE"
The League of Nations was inaugurated at a meeting in the Clock room of
the French Foreign office - but in the absence of the country whose
president had fought hardest for the world body during the Paris peace
talks, President Wilson.  U.K.  - 35 drown when steamer "Treveal" sinks.
0720
GERMANY - The German government surrenders thier largest airship, L71,
to Britain.  BELGIUM - Allied premiers meet German leaders for the first
time since the versailles treaty, at the resort of Spa.  U.S.  - British
barber Charles Stephens dies when he goes over the Niagara Falls in a
barrel.  LONDON - The London County Council bans the employment of
foreigners in almost all council jobs.  GERMANY - Ex Kaiser Wilhelm's
youngest son commits suicide.  LONDON - Official end to war with Austria
is declared.  Lloyd George appeals for US to join League of Nations.
0121
SPAIN - 160 passengers and crew are feared drowned when the ship Santa
Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia.  WASHINGTON - President Harding asks for
a simple inauguration ceremony.  U.K.  - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
U.S.  - Unemployment stands at 3,473,000.  BERLIN - Professor Albert
Einstein causes a stir with his suggestion that the universe could be
measured.  PARIS - The Allies fix Germany's reparations at 10 billion
pounds over 42 years.  DUBLIN - British tanks are ordered to roll in.
U.K.  - 17 people are killed when two passenger trains collide.
0721
                       "IRISH TRUCE IS DECLARED"
Ireland now has a truce after months of the most savage fighting the
country has ever known.  U.K.  - 1,363,121 people are on poor relief,
the highest number ever recorded.  VIENNA - Scientists claim they have
carried out successfully eye transplants on fish, frogs and rats.
FRANCE - Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin give a child the first BCG
vaccination against tuberculosis.  GERMANY - Adolf Hitler is voted
president of National Socialist German Workers Party.  .
0122
                  "IRISH PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ACCEPT TREATY"
After a debate of fiery words and high drama, Dail Eireann, of the
provisional Irish parliament, has approved the treaty with Britain which
sets up the Irish Free State.  "SHAKLETON, POLAR EXPLORER, DIES" - Sir
Ernest Shakleton, regarded by many as the finest explorer of his age,
died of a heart attack while in Georgia on his fourth expedition to the
Antartic. RUSSIA - 33 million people are now in danger of starvation.
WASHINGTON - 107 dead when theatre roof collapses under weight of snow.
0722
                   "WEISSMULLER SETS SWIMMING RECORD"
One of sport's classic time barriers was decisively broken as Johnny
Weissmuller, an 18-year-old austrian born American immigrant from
Chicago became the first man to swim 100 metres in less than a minute.
U.S.  - The world's first shopping centre, the Country Club Plaza,
opens.  PARIS - Lloyd George proposes world disarmament to the League of
Nations.  DUBLIN - The Irish Army Council is formed, with Michael
Collins as commander-in-chief.
0123
                    "GERMANS DEFY THE OCCUPYING FRENCH"
The favourite tune in the industrial towns of the Ruhr these days is
"Deutchland uber Alles".  Crowds gather around statues of Bismarck and
other German national heroes to shout insults at the French troops and
sing, again and again.  "Germany stands for me above all, above all the
world".  MUNICH - The Nazi Party holds its first rally.  RUSSIA -
Rumours are circulating that Lenin is close to death.  FRANCE - Sadi
lecointe sets a new air speed record of 217.5 mph.
0723
U.S.  - Jack Dempsey beats Tom Gibbons after a full 15 rounds to keep
his world heavyweight title.  GERMANY - France and Belgium warn Berlin
that relations will be severed unless it condemns Ruhr violence.
LAUSANNE - The Turks and the Allies agree a peace treaty restoring to
Turkey Aegan areas and Armenia, lost after the war.  ROME - Musolini
dissolves all opposition parties.  LONDON - Stanley Baldwin tells France
and Belgium to leave the Ruhr for fear of starting a new world conflict.
ROME - Mussolini bans gambling throughout Italy.
0124
                  "FATHER OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION DIES"
The provisional lawyer turned political agitator, who made a revolution
that shook the world, died after a long illness.  Vladimar Ilyich Ulyich
Ulyanov, who styled Himself Lenin, was 54.  PARIS - The Pasteur
Institute says it has isolated the bacillus causing rabies.  MOSCOW - A
council is appointed to succeed Lenin:  Gregory Zinoviev, Leon Kamenev
and Stalin.  GERMANY - Prussian state executioner Paul Spaethe lights 45
candles for the 45 people he has killed, then kills himself.
0724
PARIS - The Olympic Games open with 42 nations taking part, but not
Germany.  BRAZIL - Government opponents take Sao Paulo, 250 are killed.
WASHINGTON - President Coolidge's 16 year old son dies of blood
poisoning. PARIS - The Prince of Wales unveils a memorial to British war
dead in Notre Dame cathedral. INDIA - Many deaths reported in flooding
in the south of the country which has destroyed many villages. DUBLIN -
The Irish Free State releases Eamon de Valera and other political
prisoners. LONDON - Government rejects idea of a channel Tunnel.
0125
                  "TROTSKY FIRED FROM SOVIET WAR COUNCIL"
Joseph Stalin has moved decisively against Leon Trotsky and ousted him
from leadership in the Soviet Communist party.  NORWAY - The capital
Christiania is renamed Oslo.  ROME - Mussolini assumes full dictatorial
powers.  GERMANY - 25 die and 60 are injured in a train crash in
Westphalia.  WASHINGTON - President Coolidge says he "wouldn't be seen
dead" in the "Oxford Bags" worn by some students.  U.S.  - 25 million
people see a total eclipse of the sun.
0725
U.K.  - The first International Congress of Radiology opens.  U.S.  -
The pro-evolution pastor of Dayton, Tennessee is forced to quit
following threats against him.  GERMANY - French and Belgian troops
begin their evaculation of the Ruhr.  U.K.  - Scientists claim they have
successfully innoculated animals against cancer.  U.K.  - It is reported
that ten million people listen to the BBC wireless broadcasts.  LONDON -
Patricia Cheeseman, a patient at Guy's hospital, has first successful
treatment for diabetes.  GERMANY - "Mein Kampf" is Hitler's manifesto.
0126
                 "DEVICE SENDS MOVING IMAGES BY RADIO"
Moving pictures transmitted by wireless were demonstrated at the Royal
Institution in London by inventor John Baird.  In Baird's system a scene
is converted to varying electrical signals with the help of a camera.
GERMANY - The airline Lufthansa is founded.  U.K.  - The first widows
pensions are paid out at post offices.  PARIS - The Pasteur Institute
announces the discovery of an anti-tetanus serum.  U.S.  - America leads
the world with 61 per cent of the 27,750 telephones in existence.
0726
LONDON - The government has to import large quantities of food as the
coal strike enters its third month.  FRANCE - 19 are reported killed and
100 injured when the Paris-Le Harve train crashes.  GERMANY - The first
congress of the reconstituted Nazi Party begins, called by Adolf Hitler.
LONDON - Rudyard Kipling is awarded a gold medal by the Royal Society of
Literature.  U.S.  - Lightning strikes a US Navy munitions dump, causing
an explosion visible for 30 miles.  LONDON - From next year broadcasting
will be in the hands of a new British Broadcasting Corporation.
0127
U.K.  - The British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast its first
programmes. LISBON - Bubonic plague is reported to have broken out. NEW
YORK - Fox demonstrates the "Movietone", which synchronises sound with
motion pictures. MONTREAL - 77 children die in ten minutes in the panic
to escape a burning theatre.  LOS ANGELES - Charlie Chaplin's wife Lita
Grey files for divorce. MEXICO - 100 feared killed when an archbishop
leads a revolt of Catholics against the government. GLASGOW - 8 die and
10 are injured when the city is hit by a  hurricane.
0727
                 "VIENNA ROCKED BY REVOLUTIONARY RIOTS"
Loyal troops, ferried by Vienna along the Danube, have put down a revolt
that threatened to engulf Austria.  The trouble started when three men
of the anti-socialist front, Kaempfers, were acquitted of the murder of
two communists, who were killed in a fracas in January.  PALESTINE - 26
people are reported killed in an earthquake.  U.K.  - US amateur golfer
Bobby Jones wins the British Open.  VIENNA - Order is finally restored
after the recent rioting.
0128
                  "LONDONERS DIE AS THAMES BURSTS BANKS"
The Thames burst its banks, flooding low-lying districts of London,
drowning 14 people - including four sisters in their basement homes.
Hundreds more have been made homeless along the length of the grey,
swollen river. U.S. - From this month Pan-American Airways are the first
airline to use male stewards. U.K. - 466,000 people over 65 receive the
first state pensions of Ten shilling a week. ROME - The government says
it may abolish trial by jury because juries are too lenient.
0728
INDIA - 15 die in a riot between Sikhs and Moslems at Khargpur.  U.S.  -
The first commercially available television set, made by the Daven
Corporation, goes on sale for $75.  BRAZIL - Two Italians set a world
record by flying 5,000 miles non-stop from Rome.  U.S.  - Jean Lussier
goes over the Niagara Falls in a rubber ball. LONDON - A government
committee says smallpox can be eradicated from the world by systematic
vaccination. THE ARCTIC - Umberto Nobile and the crew of the airship
"Italia" are finally rescued by a Soviet icebreaker.
0129
                   "WYATT EARP DIES WITH HIS BOOTS OFF"
With his colt '45 Buntline Special hanging from the brass bedpost, Wyatt
Earp, the legendary former marshal of Dodge City, died with his boots
off.  His end came peacefully while he was asleep at aged 80.  NEW YORK
- Premiere of George Gershwin's musical "Strike Up The Band.  GERMANY -
American motor manufactures General Motors buys the German firm Opel.
USSR - Trotsky is ordered out of the country.  YUGOSLAVIA - King
Alexander declares himself a dictator.
0729
                  "POPE PIUS VENTURES BEYOND THE VATICAN"
Pius XI became the first Pope to leave the Vatican since 1870.  He
blessed a crowd of some 300,000 from a specially erected altar on the
Basilica steps.  "SUBMARINE CRASH:  24 ARE FEARED DEAD" - Twenty-four
seamen died when two submarines collided in the Irish Sea while
returning from an exercise.  GENEVA - 48 countries sign a convention on
the treatment of prisoners of war.  U.S. - The German liner Bremen
crosses the Atlantic from east to west in a record four days, 18 hours.
0130
PALESTINE - It is reported that the site of the biblical city of Sodom
has been found, five miles north of the Dead Sea.  GLASGOW - Police
arrest the manager of the Glen Cinema, Paisley, where 69 children died
on New Year's Eve.  THE ATLANTIC - 23 die when the Royal Navy tug Saint
Genny sinks in a gale off Ushant.  CHINA - Two million are reported to
have died of Starvation; famine threatens millions more.  THE
PHILIPPINES - 14 towns are devastated in a typhoon. U.S. - Figures show
a 600 per cent rise in deaths from alcohol since prohibition in 1920.
0730
                "THE FIRST WORLD CUP IS WON BY URUGUAY"
Uruguay, the host nation in the competition win the first World Cup in
Montevideo, beating Argentina 4-2.  U.S.  - Northland Transport Co.
starts a nationwide bus service as the Greyhound Co.  U.K.  - 13 die and
many are hurt in an explosion at a chemical factory in Yorkshire.
CHICAGO - 72 people die in heat wave. ITALY - An earthquake in the
Naples area leaves up to 3,000 dead and 6,000 injured. CHINA - The skull
of a man who lived a million years ago has been found at Chou Kou Tien.
0131
                      "PRIMA BALLERINA PAVLOVA DIES"
Anna Pavlova, the dancer who inspired generations of Ballet students,
has died at her home, at the age of 49.  She had made her home in London
since 1912, after leaving St.  Petersburg.  VIENNA - Thousands of Nazis
demonstrate outside a cinema showing the film "All Quiet on the Western
Front".  LONDON - Doctors claim to have discovered a vaccine against
Polio.  BRITAIN - 26 miners are feared killed in a pit explosion at
Whitehaven.  INDIA - Gandhi is released from prison.
0731
                  "FIRST TROLLY BUSES TO RUN IN LONDON"
Twenty years after they made their debut in Yorkshire, trolley buses
begin regular services in the London area for the first time this month.
GERMANY - All banks close until August 5th following the collapse of the
Danatbank.  BRITAIN - Unemployment now stands at a record 2.71 million
people.  MOSCOW - Irish Writer and Playwright, George Bernard Shaw meets
Premier Stalin.  BRITAIN - Census results show lowest rate of increase
in population since 1801, at 44.8 million it`s almost at a standstill.
0132
INDIA - The Congress Party decides to resume its campaign of civil
disobedience while Gandhi and fellow nationalist leader Vallabhai Patel
are arrested.  BERLIN - Chancellor Bruning says Germany is unable to
meet its war reparations repayments.  JAPAN - Emperor Hirohito escapes
an assassination attempt.  U.S.  - Figures show unemployment stands at
8.2 million people.  FRANCE - 18 die in a bus accident between Abbeville
and Paris.  NEW YORK - State Governor Franklin D.  Roosevelt says he
will run for President for the Democrats.
0732
U.K.  - The first main line electric express train runs from London
Bridge Station to Three Bridges Station in Sussex.  BASLE - The World
Bank calls for the return of the Gold Standard.  U.K.  - The Rector of
Stiffkey is found guilty of disreputable association with women.  BERLIN
- 15 die in clashes between Communists and Nazis, while war ministers
Kurt Von Schleicher says Germany is ready to re-arm itself.  LONDON -
King George V opens Lambeth Bridge.  PARIS - The trial opens of
President Doumer's alleged assassin, Paul Gorguloff.
0133
                  "HITLER IS NEW CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY"
After weeks of back door intrigues involving bankers, army officers and
right wing politicians, Adolf Hitler, the flamboyant Nazi leader, became
the new Chancellor of Germany.  he was appointed by President Von
Hindenburg, the man who rejected him last month because he believed a
Hitler Cabinet would be bound to develop into a party dictatorship.
SPAIN - Martial law is imposed as revolution grows.  GERMANY - Police
kill nine Communists at a Nazi rally.
0733
                "NAZIS TO STERILISE 'IMPERFECT' GERMANS"
In the wake of a stream of official decrees directed at strengthening
and purifying the German race.  Hitler's cabinet announced plans for the
compulsory sterilisation of people suffering from blindness, deafness,
physical deformity, hereditary imbecility, epilepsy and St.  Vitus'
dance.  The sterilisation will be carried out without the consent of the
victims, force will be used if necessary. U.K.  - British doctors
isolate the virus that causes Influenza.
0134
              "FLYING CIRCUS TO HELP IN INDIAN EARTHQUAKE"
It is now feared that some 2,000 people died in last Monday's earthquake
in Bihar.  In an imaginative move the Bihar government is trying to
arrange for Captain Barnards flying circus to tour the province to
ascertain the extent of the damage.  SOUTH AFRICA - A poor prospector
found the world's third largest diamond, a massive 726 carats.  GERMANY
- The law for sterilisation of 'imperfect' Germans comes into effect.
BRITAIN - Os.  Mosley calls for a modern dictatorship.
0734
                "HIMMLER TO CONTROL CONCENTRATION CAMPS"
Heinrich Himmler, a former chicken farmer has been appointed overlord of
Germany's notorious concentration camps.  Himmler is also the Chief of
Hitler's black uniformed praetorian guard, the SS.
                "DILLINGER SHOT DOWN OUTSIDE THE CINEMA"
John Dillinger was shot dead in front of a Chicago cinema.  He was
wanted for bank holdups, 16 murders and some spectacular prison breaks.
U.S.  - A heat wave in the Mid West kills over 205 people.
0135
               "HITLER WINS VOTES OVER DISPUTED TERRITORY"
Wild rejoicing throughout Germany has greeted the result of the
plebiscite on the return of the coal rich Saar territory.  A record 99
percent of Saarlanders went to poll and 90 percent voted to be reunited
with Germany.  U.S.  - A handwriting expert at Bruno Hauptmann's trial
claims he wrote all the kidnap notes to the Lindberghs.  On the last day
of his cross examination Hauptmann admits he has lied since his arrest.
ROME - Mussolini dismisses the entire Italian Cabinet.
0735
MOSCOW - Tunnel engineers on the new underground railway discover Ivan
the Terrible's torture chamber.  BERLIN - Nazis beat Jews along the
Kurfurstendamm in the centre of the city.  INDIA - 10 died when troops
opened fire on Muslims.  JAPAN - 227 people die in floods.  LONDON - The
Ministry of Transport says dipped headlights will be made compulsory.
CUBA - The army foils an alleged Communist plot to overthrow the
government.  EAST AFRICA - Abyssinaians kill 40 Italian troops in a
surprise night attack.
0136
                   "KING GEORGE V DEAD: NATION MOURNS"
King George V was laid to rest at Windsor amidst the tombs of his
ancestors.  Some 124 naval ratings pulled the gun carriage, carrying the
body of the sailor King through the silent and crowded streets.  Edward
the Eighth is now King. "POET RUDYARD KIPLING DEAD" - Rudyard Kipling
died this month at the age of seventy.  BERLIN - Hitler tells the League
of Nations to mind its own business on Germany's treatment of Jews.

0736
              "FASCIST REBELS START CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN"
The Civil war that erupted in Spain when the army rose against the
Republican government two weeks ago is being fought with the utmost
ferocity.  Atrocities are being carried out by both sides as they
struggle for the advantage all over Spain.  "AMERICA GETS ITS MONOPOLY"
- The latest craze in America is a board game called Monopoly, with some
20,000 sets being sold each week.  U.K.  - Mass production of gas masks
begins, the target is one for every citizen.
0137
              "FAULTLESS FONTEYN HAS LONDON AT HER FEET"
The 18 year old English dancer Morgot Fonteyn scored a triumph at her
debut in "Giselle" at Sadler's Wells.  When Alicia Markova left the
Wells two years ago, the company was without a Prima Ballerina.  ROME -
The government bans inter-racial marriages in the Italian colonies in
Africa.  U.K.  - Britain bans volunteers from fighting in Spain,
imposing a two year jail sentence on anyone caught doing so.  WASHINGTON
- The U.S.  puts a ban on joining either side in the Spanish civil war.
0737
          "BRITAIN DRAW UP PLANS FOR JEWISH STATE IN PALESTINE"
To end the "irreconcilable conflict" between the Jews and Arabs, the
British government announced proposals to partition Palestine.  "GEORGE
GERSHWIN DEAD" - George Gershwin died in Hollywood from a brain tumour,
at the age of 38.  he was to music what F.  Scott Fitzgerald was to
fiction; Between them they made the twenties the Jazz age.  PACIFIC -
Aviator Amelia Eardhart disappears on the last half of her round the
world flight that began in California.
0138
       "DISNEY RELEASES FIRST FULL LENGTH ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE"
People said that cartoon films would never be more than short fillers
between pictures, but Walt Disney has proved them all wrong with the
release of his first feature length cartoon,"Snow white and the Seven
Dwarfs".  "FREUD ARRIVES IN LONDON" - The founder of Psychoanalysis, Dr.
Sigmund Freud arrived in London.  The Nazis have been persecuting Freud
for months because he is a Jew and because of his ideas.  BARCELONA -
200 people are reported dead in an air raid by Franco's forces.
0738
              "HUGHES FLYS ROUND THE WORLD IN RECORD TIME"
More than 2 million New Yorkers gave the tycoon aviator Howard Hughes a
ticker tape welcome after he set a new record for round the world flight
in just three days, 19 hours and 17 minutes.  The Lockheed aircraft
averaged over 208 mph on the 14,824 mile trip. VIENNA - Many Jews are
reported to have killed themselves in recent days.  CANADA - Eskimos in
the Arctic complain of a heatwave: it is 67 degrees F. DUBLIN - American
pilot Douglas Corrigan lands but says he meant to fly to California.
0139
                  "POWER UNLEASHED: THE ATOM IS SPLIT"
It may be possible to exploit the energy in the atom, following the
discovery of a new radioactive process:  Nuclear Fission.  This could be
used to produce weapons of unprecedented power, or as a virtually
inexhaustible source of energy.  IRELAND - William Butler Yeats, the
voice of Ireland whom many regard as the finest poet now writing in
English, has died aged 73.  U.S.  - Gangster Al Capone is moved from
Alcatraz Island to San Padro's Terminal Island prison.
0739
             "HITLER'S DESIGNS ON DANZIG SPARKS NEW CRISIS"
It looks as though the Baltic port of Danzig could provide the spark
needed to set off the explosion of a new European war.  The Germans are
smuggling arms and military instructors into the free city.  VIENNA -
Nazi thugs beat up the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer.
BERLIN - All Jews in the Reich are ordered to join a new Reich "Union of
Jews".  U.K.  - The submarine HMS Thetis is lifted from the sea bed,
seven weeks after the tragedy in which 71 died.
0140
                 "BRITAIN ON SHORT RATIONS DUE TO WAR"
For the first time since 1918 Britain faces food rationing.  Butter,
Sugar, Bacon and Ham can be bought only on production of ration books.
BRITAIN - 2 million 19 to 27 year olds are conscripted.  FINLAND -
50,000 Soviet troops are reported to have died since the war with the
USSR began.  U.K.  - 152 are feared dead when the liner "Union Castle"
is sunk by a mine off the South East coast.  BERLIN - The Nazis warn
that listening to foreign radio is an offence punishable by death.
0740
                   "CHANNEL ISLANDS INVADED BY GERMANS"
German forces landed on the Channel Islands without opposition.  The
islands were demilitarised after a decision was taken that they would be
too difficult to defend.  BERLIN - Hitler is reported to have postponed
his attack on Britain until the full moon.  "1000 DEAD AS FRENCH FLEET
IS SUNK BY BRITAIN" - The Royal Navy removed the threat of the French
fleet falling into German hands by destroying a large part of it at
anchor in Algeria - killing 1000 French sailors in the process.
0141
                     "DUBLINER DIES IN SWITZERLAND"
From Zurich comes the news of the death of James Joyce.  Although he
left his native Dublin in 1904 and last saw it in 1912, no man has
written more about the city - in "Dubliners", "Portrait of the artist as
a young man" and "Ulysses". IRELAND - German bombs fall in a surprise
air raid. "AMY JOHNSON FEARED DEAD" - Amy Johnson, the female aviator
who made history by flying solo to Australia is missing, feared drowned,
after the aircraft she was flying ditched in the Thames Estuary.
0741
                "GERMANS POWER INTO RUSSIA WITH PANZERS"
German Panzer tank forces often operating far in advance of their
supporting infantry, have driven a great wedge between the armies
defending Moscow.  Berlin claimed that the Russians were retreating
along the whole front from the Baltic to the Black Sea.  WASHINGTON -
General Douglas MacArthur is appointed to command American forces in the
far east.  INDOCHINA - Japanese troops advance into Cambodia and
Thailand; Saigon is occupied.
0142
N. IRELAND - Several thousand American troops landed in Northern
Ireland.  They are the first US troops to set foot in Europe.  GERMANY -
Many thousands of Jews are believed to have been killed already,
somewhat haphazardly, by shooting or beating, under Heydrich's plan the
task will be carried out more systematically in special camps with
facilities for mass extermination.  Heydrich's violent anti-semitism is
said to be fuelled by rumours that his mother was half Jewish. LAS VEGAS
- Actress Carol Lombard and 22 others die in a TWA airline disaster.
0742
AMERICA - British born actor Cary Grant marries Woolworth heiress
Barbara Hutton a week after becoming an American citizen.  YUGOSLAVIA -
The Germans slaughter 700 in a reprisal attack for the killing of Zagreb
Gestapo Chief.  U.K.  - Driving for pleasure is banned.  DANZIG -
Lancasters, the RAF's newest bombers, bomb Uboat yards in the city.
VICHY - Laval lets Germans enter unoccupied France to hunt for
resistance radio transmitters.  OTTAWA - Canada's parliament votes for
full conscription.
0143
                      "BOMB KILLS SCHOOL CHILDREN"
Twenty three school girls were killed in a raid as they waited to watch
a performance of "A Mid Summer's Night Dream".  Four teachers were also
killed.  The German planes were attacking South East England in
daylight. "GERMANS SURRENDER IN STALINGRAD" - After a week of heavy
fighting in Stalingrad, Field Marshal Von Paulus surrendered to the red
army. BERLIN - Hitler orders the mobilisation of the whole population
from 16 to 65. U.K. - German army blames the SS for Nazi atrocities.
0743
                "GESTAPO EXECUTE FRENCH RESISTANCE CHIEF"
Jean "Max" Moulin, the French underground leader, is dead after being
tortured by the Gestapo; He was 44.  He was captured on June 21st, when
a traitor told the Gestapo of a secret meeting of resistance chiefs at
Caluire, on the river Saone.  "GERMANS ROUTED IN MASSIVE TANK BATTLE" -
The greatest tank battle in history, fought on the flat cornlands around
Kursk, South of Moscow, has ended in a devastating defeat for the German
army. ROME - Allied bombing raids on Rome kill 1,400 people.
0144
                    "DNA: THE BUILDING BLOCK OF LIFE"
One of the great mysteries of biology has been solved.  Genes, the
hereditary units which determine the characteristics of all living
things, are made up from a chemical called Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, DNA
for short.  ROME - Mussolini's son in law and ex foreign minister Count
Ciano along with four others are found guilty of treason against
Mussolini and are shot.  BERLIN - Hitler orders the mobilisation of all
children over the age of ten.
0744
            "HITLER ESCAPES ASSASSINATION BID BY OWN OFFICERS"
At his Wolf's Lair Headquarters in East Prussia, the Fuehrer was
listening to a report on the deteriorating military situation on the
Russian front when a violent explosion shattered the conference room,
killing at least three officers - but not Hitler.  Hitler sustained only
minor burns and cuts, he took his escape as a sign that providence was
preserving him to continue his life's work.  FRANCE - The Allies drive
the Germans from Normandy in their first major tank operation.
0145
                "RUSSIANS DISCOVER THE HORROR OF AUSCHWITZ"
By the time the Russian tanks battered through the gates, most of the
surviving inmates had been marched off in the direction of Germany.  The
Russian's have found only 5,000 prisoners alive in the camp, all of them
near to death from starvation and disease, and mounds of skeletal
corpses. LONDON - A report says British anti-aircraft rockets caused the
panic at Bethnal Green Tube Station in 1943 that left 173 people dead.
POLAND - The Russians advance across the the German border.
0745
          "IRON CURTAIN IS DRAWN ACROSS EUROPE AS ALLIES FALL OUT"
The conference of the victorious powers has become a meeting of
mistrust.  Two weeks ago Churchill, Truman and Stalin travelled to
Potsdam, the historic residence of the German Emperors, to chart a
course for post war Europe.  They disagreed about where Germany's
borders should be drawn; The Western powers objected to seizing huge
areas of Germany and expelling millions of Germans.  U.S.  - The first
Atomic bomb tests take place in the New Mexico desert.
0146
U.K.  - Test flights started from a new major airport to the west of
London, to be known as Heathrow.  This future terminus for all long
distance flights to and from London is at present a great plain of earth
with very few facilities, apart from a row of huts and tents and some
telephone boxes.  NUREMBERG - The trial of Goering and Von Ribbentrop
opens.  Rudolph Hess asks to conduct his own defence, while Streicher
suffers from a mild heart attack.  U.K.  - Fifteen die in a rail crash
at Lichfield, Staffordshire.
0746
                       "TITO EXECUTES HIS OLD ALLY"
General Draja Mihailovich, the former Yugoslav guerrilla leader who, in
the early stages of the war, led his Chetnik partisans against the
occupying German and Italian troops, was executed by a firing squad.  He
was found guilty of treason and collaboration by a Belgrade court.
PACIFIC - An Atomic bomb is exploded, sinking three ships and damaging
thirty one out of seventy three.  U.K.  - The Jockey Club sa