25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 9, 1971

FORTY-SIX Italian paratroopers and a British crew of six died today when their giant RAF Hercules transport plane plunged into the Mediterranean off the Italian port of Leghorn. It was Italy's worst peacetime disaster.

BOLTON Chamber of Commerce is to go no further with plans for a landing strip for private aircraft in the Bolton area. It says that the need in the foreseeable future will be "a limited one".

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 9, 1946

SIR - The recent drive for nurses does not seem to be producing much result. True, pay has been increased, but the hours are still bad. It is impossible to give nurses a 48-hour week whilst there is yet such a shortage. Until male nurses are forthcoming, those in the job are doing their utmost to keep up the standard of our hospitals. In my opinion a great deal of good would be done if hospital nurses were paid at the rate of time and a half for all overtime. Let us demand fair play for our nurses, thereby encouraging others to take up this undoubtedly satisfying career, on the surety of sensible appreciation for services rendered. Yours, etc., Ex-Servicewomen.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 9. 1871

THERE has been a dreadful massacre of Chinese immigrants in the Californian town of Los Angeles. A police officer attempted, on the morning of the 24th ult., to arrest a Chinaman who was charged with shooting another. The countrymen of the accused resisted the officer and he was shot, together with a citizen who had gone to his assistance. This was the signal for a general rising against the Chinamen, several of whom were shot dead, and no fewer than sixteen were put to death by hanging. Fire was applied to the 'Chinese Quarter', and the mob, which was 'composed of native Californians and the dregs of society' showed great barbarity in their treatment of the hated foreigners.

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