SPANIEL’S MOTHER LOVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 219, 5 December 1927, Page 13

SPANIEL’S MOTHER LOVE

BURNS WITH HER PUPS Heroism and mother love caused the death of a spaniel, Rose, at the fire which destroyed a piggery and 50 pigs at East Ham, England. Rose, with her litter of eight puppies, was in a shed which took fire. As soon as the doors were opened, Rose was taken out of danger, but, despite efforts to restrain her, she ran back to her puppies, and was burned to death beside them. The fire destroyed completely the piggeries belonging to Mr. W. Harnett, on the Marshes, behind Barking Creek. How it happened is a mystery. The piggeries are in a lonely spot, and the alarm was given by a passer-by. THE WORD “BRITISH”

BETTER DESCRIPTION WANTED "An Australian invites me to invent a better word than British and Briton for our common citizenship of the Empire. He says that he does not like to call himself a Briton, or to declare that he is a Britishman. He abominates the dreadful word Britisher. He wants a word that will stir his pride and his patriotism," writes Mr. James Douglas in the "Daily Express." "He dislikes the sound of Briton, British and Britisher. They are gritty and discordant sounds. They are too local and parochial. They are insular. They mean nothing to Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen, Irishmen, Canadians, Australians, and South Africans. “I do not believe that a code word for the citizenship or comradeship of the Empire can be invented or enforced. The sentiment exists, but there is no name for it, because it is too complex to be named. It is a compound of love for the birthplace and love for the union of all the birthplaces. It is a mixture of all the homes and all the races and all the loyalties to them as a whole, in which the place-names and place-sentiments are mingled. “British is the only epithet which covers the whole field of loyalties. If we cannot all persuade ourselves that we are Britons we can at least glory in being British and in being Britishers, with British fidelities and obligations. "These words are inadequate, but they are the best we have got. We can enlarge their meaning. We can charge them with a richer significance and symbolism. Our poets can fuse them with their poetry. They can be vitalised with reverence and romance. There is no reason why all our ideals should not be poured into them. Briton, British and Britisher may become trumpet words. We have nothing better-.”-