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ERE is a story of Action, nonë more noble, thrilling, daring, self-sacrificing in the history of the war. These men went out on the eve of St. George's Day, 1918, to do two things-to stop, in some measure, the German submarine menace and to prove yet once again to all the world that the British Navy is the same in spirit, the same in genius, the same in noble self-sacrifice as it was in the days of Nelson and far down the ages. And they did them both. They succeeded with the fullest measure of brilliant success. They went out to greet what they regarded as certain death, they stormed the breakwater of Zeebrugge, blocked the Bruges Canal and inscribed such a story of action on the annals of the Great War aš will be told and retold long after the present generation has passed from the scene. They made history. Did they hesitate? No. Had they hesitated the great adventure would have failed.
THE BUNGKONG, DAILI, PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1912.
GIFT OF STONEHENGE TO THE
NATION.
A PRIVATE DONOR
Thanks to the generosity and public spirit of Mr. C. E. E. Chubb, of Bemer (ton Lodge,” Salisbury, the ruins of Stive") henge, the greatest of all Great Britain's archeological relics, have been preserved to the nation. In his letter to Sir Alfred Mond, First Commissioner of Works, in timating his splendid gift, he expressed; a wish that the revenue arising from E should for the continuance of the war be devoted to the Red Cross Society, and the Treasury has given its consent
World-wide satisfaction will be felt that the noblest monument of Albion's isle has been placed in the safe custody of the nation. While is remained in private Possession there was always, the por sibility, remote indeed, but still existent, that this wonderful relic of a long past age might fall into the hands of an owner not fully alive to the sacred duty.of pre- werving for posterity the remains of the wonderful circles on Salisbury Plain which wind and weather and the sacrilegi. pas hand of ignorant utilitarians have spared.
Of late years much has been and some eighteen years.180 Eli Edmund Antrobus, the then proprietor in concert with several archeological societies, had the whole are enclosed and the of its future preservation and of the restoration of the fallen stones placed in the hands of engineering experts. Now, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Chubb. to the capable and sympathetic care of the Ancient Monuments Board, has been confided what even in the twelth century Henry of Huntingdon chronicled as one of the four wonders of England Lord Avebury in bis Prehistorie Times ex pressed the opinion that there are satis
Bronz reasons for ascribing it to the Age, though apparently it was not all erected at one time, the inner circle of amali nawrought "blue stones" being prod ably older than the rest, and Dr. Gowland assigned it to the end of the Neolithic period (2.000 to 1.300 BC.) As to its purpose, many archeologists accept it as An exceptional development of the or dinary type of stone circles used as burial places by the Bronze Age folk of Britain. Others argue in support of the theory that Stonehenge was a temple for sun wor abip, ant point to the fact that the sun rises on Midsummer Day ncarly, but
but not quite, in line with the avenue, and over the Friar's Heel," the great monolith on the axis of the horseshoe and Beyond the outer circle. Working from at astronomical standpoint, Sir Norman Lockyer calculated that on Midsummer 1680 .c., the sun rose exactly over The Friar'. Heel, and in a direct line with the axis of the temple and avenue, and, allowing a possible margin of error of 200 years either way, he agreed with Dr. Gowland's date. But whatever its origin. whatever its purpose, it remains the grandest megalithic monument in Bri- Cain, and its proper custodian is the na tion to whom fr. Chubb has so generously given it.
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