ENGLISH RACING

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1927, Page 1

ENGLISH RACING

LONDON'. Oct. 26. The Cambridgeshire resulted : —Medal and Niantic (dead heat) 1. Insight TI 3. There were 21 starters. The third horse was a length away. The stake was divided.

STOLEN PROPERTY.. " Though the conscience ol the British Empire is not notoriously tender it is now mildly troubled by the laet j that Greece has just entered a polite request that the Elgin Marbles be re-; turned to her. Even when, in 1616. Lord Elgin sold to the Government, the treasures he had stripped trom the Acropolis at Athens there were those who thought that they belonged by right to the nation that had created them and who argued that the permission he had from the Turkish authorities to cart them away gave him little moral justification tor despoiling a subjected people. And though a century of possession has a tendency to make any theft seem legitimate there is actually less reason now than ever why London should hold -what belongs by every rijght to Athens. Greece is today her own mistress : she could place the sculptures in their proper setting : and there is no longer the. danger, actually present in Lord Elgin s. time, that they might he destroyed in the course of military operations. England is natural!v loth to give up one of the greatest treasures of the British Museum hut she has had them for more than a hundred years and possession has ample repaid her for her guardianship.”— ’’The Nation ” (New York!.