MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. BOMB WRECKS TRAMWAY. BERNE, Aug. 11. A bomb exploded and wrecked a tramway station, injuring tittoen persons, including two women. THUNDERBOLT STRIKES DOWN SOLDIERS. WARSAW, Aug. 10. A thunderbolt fell among an infantry battalion entering a forest during a storm, striking down forty soldiers. Others fled, but returned to succou the injured men, who were sent to hospital. after careful removal of the he mots, rifles and side arms, which "ere fully charged with ei’ectneity. RECORD FOR arrivals. RUGBY. Aug. 9Three huge liners, the Cnnnrdcr Aquitania. the White Star O.’ympie, ~nd the United States Leviathan, ai-,-ived from New York within the space of three hours at Southampton yesterll This is the first time in the. history of North Atlantic shipping that three vessels of such dimensions have reached port on the same day.

THE PRINCE IN HIS OVERSEA HOME.

VANCOUVER. ‘ Aug. 11

\t High River. Alberta, this morning, the Prince of Wales and Prince George were up early, onteiiug iato the full swing of life at the ranch: The Prince of Wales was pleased with the improvements made. Afr Baldwin is at Banff mountain resort.

CENTENARY OF GEORGE CANNING A CHAMPION OF NATIONALITY. RUGBY, Aug. fl-Tn-day is the 100th anniversary of the death of George Canning, who was British Foreign Secretary from I s to 1827. and Prime Minister tor loin months before his death. The newspapers, in leading articles, recall’ that Canning, when he became Foreign Minister, was confronted with world conditions following the Napoleonic Wars not dissimilar from thus' of recent times. All the problem* and unrest arising out of the Napoleonic Wars complicated international policy. To steer a steady course amid the currents and rocks needed both vision and strength and ( aiming revealed himself as a great Minister. As “The Times” remarks to describe Canning’s policy would he to write the history of the chief events and movements of those years in the Old World and the New. Lord Castlereagli, who had preceded him at the Foreign Office, saw beloro he died thatEngland could not remain a partner in an alliance with Continental Governments which aimed at the suppression by arms of popular movements which began to break out over Europe shortly after the Napoleonic Wars. Canning trod in his footsteps.

• “In developing and applying this view he did much to’-' foster in the world the idea of nationality, for which the revolution and Napoleon had prepared the way, and which his own disciple, Palmerston, adopted with less reserve. His recognition of the Span-ish-American Republics was one of his most important strokes of policy.”