CLYDE'S MIGHTY PART IN THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1916, Page 3

CLYDE'S MIGHTY PART IN THE WAR.

IMPRESSIONS OF FRENCH GUESTS. STRENGTH, POWER, ViqTORY. Glasgow, April 12. "What is your impression of the Clyde?" I asked a French deputy, as we swung down the river amid driving squalls of rain mixed with fitful gleams of April sunshine. "Power," was the reply. "Strength and power," another Deputy agreed. "We see this everywhere in England," he said. "London lacks the airs and graces of other capitals, but she is the metropolis of the world with strength, power, endurance written on every stone of her buildings."

And indeed our visitors have had much to study since they came to Victoria on Sunday night. After the breathless scramble of yesterday and Monday, they were hurried off last night as fast as a North Western special could take them to Scotland. Their arrival meant no rest. A hurried breakfast, and there came the Lord Provost of Glasgow and six of its bailies to bid them welcome and start them on their day's work, which was to last until midnight. Mr. Dunlop invited his distinguished visitors to see for themselves what was being done. "You may have heard," he said, "some hard things said about the West of Scotland. I may tell you that the troubles were the work of a small minority, whose influence is disappearing. On every side you will find strenuous efforts devoted to a sinsle purpose."