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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928.

THE ALDERSHOT

TATTOO.

NATION'S HISTORY IN PANORAMA.

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"SAFETY FIRST" FOR RESERVOIRS.

GOVERNMENTS PLAN TO STOP DISASTROUS BURSTS.

Aldershot, June 19.

The disaster near Dolgarrog, The Cross, symbol of man's North Wales, two and a half years sacrifice to his highest ideal, shone ago, when the dam of Lake Eigiau with a dazeling radiance from the burst and 11 persons were killed by darkness of the Rushmoor areas the torront of water which swept here this evening, while the great down the Vale of Conway, is re- achievements of British manhood called by the issue of the text of a which make up the Aldershot Com-Bill to impose "safety first" pre- mand Tattoo this year were uncautions in the construction and

use of reservoirs. folded.

The Bill, which has been present- In the Royal Box was Lieutenanted by the Home Secretary, will also General Sir David Campbell,

amend the law as to liability for G.O.C., Aldershot Command, while damage and injury caused by the among distinguished visitors was escape of water from reservoira, Ofori Atta, the Gold Coast Chief, After this year no large reservoir who arrived soon after the Tattoo will be permitted to be constructed began, wearing his crown and unless the work is supervised by a carrying a larga umbrella. He qualified civil engineer, who will was attended by several members have to issue a certificate before the. of his Court, and took a promin-reservoir can be filed with water, ent place in the grandstand. either wholly or partially. There were thunderas cheers Periodical inspection will also be re- to, greet the earlier phases of the quired. Tattoo-the marching and coun;.

ter-marching of massed bands of after regiment of British threw cavalry and foot; the pageants themselves against the breaches of brave uniforms and glittering and stormed the weaker points. braid, and the stolid evolutions of Them, when the second escalado the Ist Light Infantrymen and had won the day and the din of Rifle Corps. But it was the story battle passed, the Iron Duke went of sacrifice told in deeds of bra- apart in the fading, light to scan very by men of the first Expedi- the field of victory and with bowed tionary Force to leave these shores head to count the cost. and of the last which most deep- ly moved the hearts of the crowd who watched.

A Silvery Host.

The Gate of Death.

Once more the night was pierced with light to show the men in khaki marching to the old familiar The rallying of King Richard's war-time songs through the Menin army beneath the walls of a city Gale of death. Infantry, trans- of the const line came first. Aport, artillery, ambulances-all valiant silvery host of barons in went through the gate to play their full armour and their men-at-arms part in the battle beyond, and the in stout chain mail, they came echoes of the distant cannonade silently as speetres from the dark-sufficed to tell what each ncan of the wooded hill on to a suffered for the justice haunted stretch of downland to cause." form their ranks.

As the field of poppies sprang to soldier's cross hung

man of the

1. Faint echoes of the "Nunc life, the

Dimittis" chanted by clergy and luminous in its midst resting on a the choir swelled up and drifted grave of one of those whose in- on the wind as a mitred bishop spiration it had been in life.

The solemn words, "Lest we came through the city gate with monks and acolytes around him to Forget," written in fiery charac give his blessing and God Speed.ters across the field, and the soft It woя such a gathering of music of a distant band, were not valiants as never has been scen needed to rouse the allent crowds since the age of chivalry, but it of watchers to thanksgiving for changed to one of knightly humi- the spirit of sacrifice which has lity as the king with his lords and persisted through the Ages. In a 'subjects stood for a moment with mighty fervent "volce they rose bowed head.

to sing the hymn of praise, "Oh One fierce encounter between God, Our Help in Ager Past." the Christian armies and the When the last note had died Saracan forces of Mohammed, atuway, this sermon on sacrifice end- charge of mounted knights with ed in silence-a mute tributo to gleaming swords and lances, a the men who had made it. clanging of armoured trappings, The fiery cross of human sacrl- and a clash of arms before the fice which had blazed from the burning eity of Jerusalem and the skies above the crusaders appear- days of the Crusade had passed. ed once more in the final scene The field of battle gave place to over the massed troops five thou Badajos and the arms of earlier sand strong. In the foreground' times to ordnance and the rifle." of the arena the flag of Empire Alarm bella rang a tardy warn- lay picked out by the lights of ing to the French within the a myriad torches, and from the citadel, guns thundered and bul- distance streamed ever wider the lets swept the walls as regiment diverging rays of the rising sun.

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