FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JULY 14, 1944

A PLEDGE was given to the german people yesterday that the Wehrmacht will turn their full fury against europe as they fall back to the borders of the Reich. ‘The Russian flood threatens to spill over our holy german land,’ said a soldier on the german Forces radio. ‘We will turn this continent into a maelstrom of destruction.’

JULY 14, 1965

THE Bill to abolish hanging was passed this morning after seven months of argument. The final free vote on the Bill, which substitutes life imprisonment for the death penalty, was 200 to 98.