A PARALLEL OF THE WAR

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 211, 22 September 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

A PARALLEL OF THE WAR

Sir A. S. Scott-Gatty, Garter King of Arms, writing to the London "Daily Telegraph "on July 3, says : "The whole fabric of'civilisation m Europe has twice been threatened with annihilation at the hands of egoists. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Napoleon, the Corsican. in the twentieth century by William the Prussian. "On each of these occasions fate ha.» produced in these islands a great national hero, each of them British-horn, and each of them bearing the Christ an name Horatio. "The one. Horatio Viscount Nclsor. of the Nile, a sailor. "The other, Horatio Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, a soldier. "The sailor, having consummated his work at sea. was buried on land m January IS(J-">. "Tin* soldier, having consummated his work on land, pcrshod at sva in June, li'lG. "Such are the strange workings of fat". "May the efforts of the vast Army raised by the great soldier be crowned with as complete and decisive a victory as were tho-e of the Fleet unci ' the great sailor at Trafalgar. - ' MISUNDERSTOOD. Fat: "And you also said 1 hadn't the manners of a hog. - ' Lean: ''Oh, no, I didn't. I sa : d tou had.'-'