CENTURY OF PEACE
THE TREATY OF GHENT. NEW YORK, February 10. Although the occasion is yet nearly two years off, preparations for celebrating the centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, which will mark the close of a hundred years of peace between England and America, are already afoot. December 24th, 1914, will mark the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the treaty, and the American committee that is arranging for its commemoration proposes that the event should be celebrated by the Eng-lish-speaking people on both sides of the Atlantic maintaining silence for a period” of five minutes on the date in question. At the last meeting of the committee Senator Boot announced that f-big plan had met with the approval of the British committee.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 3
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124CENTURY OF PEACE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 3
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