THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Const anti noclk. Events of the p«st few months have centred the thoughts of the world Upon that famous city of the Bosphorus mid the Golden Horn, Constantinople. It is in keeping with the history of the metropolis of Constantine tho Great that it should be associated in this, its latest blaze of notoriety, with the name of Greece. For it was beneath the sway of Grecian emperors that it, achieved not only its greatest celebrity, but also fell at last into t .iso Turkish hands which ever since have held it. A Constantine it. was—the first and the greatest of them all who founded it. and with it the Eastern Empire. on the ruins by Byzantium; a Constantine it was, and lie the fatal thirteenth of the name, who lost it and liis life together before the rush of the all-conquering Ottoman. It is surely then, one of those strange coincidences of history that in these latter days it should prove to he a Constantine again who, by a weak perversity has brought disrepute upon the name, and has rendered hopeless the possibility of the restoration of tho city to its old-time rulers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1922, Page 2
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198THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1922, Page 2
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